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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

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If you ask the average person what the company 3M does, odds are if they have a few gray hairs hanging out on their scalp, they might say that the company makes floppy disks. Floppies have had a surprisingly long life—in January 2024, Japan announced it will no longer require floppy-disk copies of government submissions.

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This Engineer’s Job Is to Keep Arkansas Nuclear One Safe

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She was inspired by her parents, who worked in biology, and by her reading of physics journals and engineering and science magazines. student at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock, when she interned at Arkansas Nuclear One. That process was created after the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan.

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The Godfather of South Korea’s Chip Industry

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By the beginning of the 21st century, South Korea had become a dominant power in the global semiconductor market, meeting more than 60 percent of international demand for memory chips alone. And in 2019, he was named a Person of Distinguished Service to Science and Technology, one of the nation’s highest honors. Frederick E.

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Quantum Technology’s Unsung Heroes

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IEEE Spectrum recently spoke with Lenahan and Hughes-Casteleberry about overshadowed genius, pre-medieval computer programs, and Claude Shannon’s Vogue magazine celebrity photoshoot. But as well, we bring in the personal stories. Japan was thought of as the enemy, with internment camps and everything.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

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I just read the article in the June/July issue of Homepower magazine written by two firemen who have solar panels on their roofs. FROM HOMEPOWER MAGAZINE written by Fire engineer Matthew Paiss: Access, pathways, and smoke-ventilation space: Providing a 3-foot setback from the edges of the roofline. Did you intern with Davidson?

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Speech Processing Pioneer Sadaoki Furui Dies at 77

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From 1979 to 1982 he was a senior researcher at NTT Basic Research Labs and was promoted in 1982 to senior staff engineer of the company’s personnel and international affairs. From 2001 to 2005, he served as president of the International Speech Communication Association. He also served on the Computer Society’s governing board.

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What the Well-Dressed Spacecraft Will Be Wearing

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This coming February, the Cygnus NG-17 spacecraft will launch from NASA Wallops, in Virginia, on a routine resupply mission to the International Space Station. Concurrently, we'll take impedance measurements, which will let us peek into the internal electrical properties of the fibers.

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