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The Essential Vannevar Bush

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Born in 1890 in Massachusetts, he came to prominence as the nation’s top designer of computers while at MIT In the 1930s. Bush was a fount of wisdom, particularly when it came to defining the engineer's role in the industrial research and development enterprise. He can dive under water and come up dry.

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Lewis H. Latimer: A Life of Lightbulb Moments

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James Weldon Johnson ’s hymn “ Lift Every Voice and Sing , ” adopted by African Americans as the unofficial “Negro National Anthem,” includes the line, “We have come over a way that with tears has been watered,” which sums up how Black Americans have found ways to thrive under conditions they weren’t meant to survive.

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Car Companies Standardize Plug for Electric Vehicles : Gas 2.0

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The three-point, 400-volt plug, which will allow electric cars to be recharged anywhere in a matter of minutes , will be unveiled Monday at the world’s biggest industrial technology fair in Hanover, northern Germany. No time frame for the introduction of the plug was mentioned, saying that talks between the companies were ongoing.

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MIT Battery Breakthrough Could Revolutionize Electric Cars : Gas 2.0

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It allow for that on-demand water heater you were probably considering too, the more extravagant systems use close to 150 amps but only part-time and you won’t need that capacity when you’re asleep. Digg StumbleUpon Facebook MindBodyGreen Hugg Care2 BlinkList Newsvine reddit Furl Tailrank Ma.gnolia Google Bookmarks Yahoo!

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Deep Learning’s Diminishing Returns

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Important work by scholars at the University of Massachusetts Amherst allows us to understand the economic cost and carbon emissions implied by this computational burden. When Google subsidiary DeepMind trained its system to play Go, it was estimated to have cost $35 million. Yes and no. Extrapolating this way.