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APRIL 2, 2024
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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DECEMBER 12, 2023
She was inspired by her parents, who worked in biology, and by her reading of physics journals and engineering and science magazines. I was amazed at the safety precautions the company takes, especially for the employees’ personal safety,” she says. That process was created after the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan.
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MARCH 1, 2022
During World War II, as personal science and engineering adviser to President Roosevelt, he led all research by civilians for the military and organized the Manhattan Project. Peace Through Strength The decision to work on weapons technology, or not, was highly personal to Bush and a decision not easy to unpack.
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APRIL 5, 2023
Intel microprocessors now power personal computers made by major manufacturers including Dell , HP , and IBM. His original hypothesis, published in a 1965 Electronics magazine article , was that the number of transistors would double each year. His projection came true over the decade that followed.
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APRIL 15, 2023
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. Could you describe him?
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APRIL 23, 2022
It would have been quite different had Warnock and company not been in the right place at the right time to meet the right person. The time was right because of the imminence of three hardware developments: the first low-cost, bit-mapped personal computer, the first low-cost laser printer, and a decline in price of high-density memory chips.
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AUGUST 27, 2022
And in 2019, he was named a Person of Distinguished Service to Science and Technology, one of the nation’s highest honors. Favorite periodical: TIME magazine. Legend and Legacy. For young semiconductor engineers in South Korea today, Kim Choong-Ki is a legend—the great unsung hero behind their nation’s ascendancy in chip production.
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