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DOT awarding up to $435M for 34 University Transportation Centers

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The US Department of Transportation (DOT) is awarding up to $435 million in grant awards for 34 University Transportation Centers (UTC). The Department received 230 grant applications during this competition, which represents the largest number of applications ever submitted in the 35-year history of the UTC Program.

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Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story

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This article was first published as “Design case history: Apple’s Macintosh.” The author spoke with many members of the design team in the months following the 1984 introduction of the Macintosh, however, Steve Jobs did not grant an interview for this article. It appeared in the December 1984 issue of IEEE Spectrum.

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Researchers demonstrate effective silicon-based thermoelectric generators

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A University of Texas at Dallas physicist has teamed with Texas Instruments Inc. Study co-author Hal Edwards, a TI Fellow at Texas Instruments, designed and supervised fabrication of the prototype devices. He turned to Lee and UT Dallas to further study what the devices could do. —Prof.

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Inventor of AT&T’s Datakit, the First Virtual Connection Switch, Dies at 85

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He left there in 1966 to join the University of Cambridge as an assistant director of research. He earned his bachelor’s degree in aeronautical engineering in 1958 from the University of Bristol , in England. before joining Texas Instruments in Dallas. He worked at the university at the time of his death.

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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

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Like the Recovery Act-funded projects, the annual Clean Cities projects include grants for vehicles, infrastructure, and education. Fleets include transportation authorities, cities, school districts, the University of Michigan, FedEx, and Meijer. Last week, the Department of Energy also announced that. Total DOE award: $14,999,927.

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Building a Zero Trust Security Model for Autonomous Systems

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In contrast, an autonomous understanding system could help reengineer the warehouse design to further increase performance in the same space. Each system should be designed to fail safely and securely so as to minimize the impact on adjacent components. Zero Trust Applied to Chip Design.

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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Mice, windows, icons, and menus: these are the ingredients of computer interfaces designed to be easy to grasp, simplicity itself to use, and straightforward to describe. This article was first published as “Of Mice and menus: designing the user-friendly interface.” The mouse is a pointer. Windows divide up the screen.

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