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DOE BETO seeking input on Optima initiative for co-optimization of fuels and engines

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How these new engines perform and how they will be integrated into new vehicle architectures will be the story of personal mobility for this half of the 21 st century. … EERE is specifically interested in information regarding additional areas of research that universities and others are interested in contributing to and collaborating on.

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The Essential Vannevar Bush

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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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How Vannevar Bush Engineered the 20th Century

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To this day, Bush’s article—titled “As We May Think”—and his subsequent elaborations of networked information appliances are credited with shaping what would become the personal computer and the World Wide Web. And it deepened during the long Cold War.

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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. Muḥammad ibn al-Khwārizmī was a renaissance person for his era. Could you describe him?

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Help Build the Future of Assistive Technology

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This article is sponsored by California State University, Northridge (CSUN). AT, in its most basic form, is anything that helps a person achieve enhanced performance, improved function, or accelerated access to information. California State University, Northridge (CSUN). The university is also home to a sister degree, the.

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The Rise of Groupware

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But they are the outgrowth of years of hard work done before the Internet became a thing, when there was a thorny problem: How could people collaborate effectively when everyone’s using a stand-alone personal computer? The new personal-computing technologies clearly needed to do more to foster collaboration.

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‘AI Pause’ Open Letter Stokes Fear and Controversy

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In the news media, the open letter has inspired straight reportage , critical accounts for not going far enough (“ shut it all down ,” Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote in Time magazine), as well as critical accounts for being both a mess and an alarmist distraction that overlooks the real AI challenges ahead.

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