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How Engineers at Digital Equipment Corp. Saved Ethernet

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s networking advanced development group in Massachusetts. I was a firsthand witness in what was a period of great opportunity for LAN technologies and intense competition between standardization efforts. Today Ethernet and both token-based technologies are part of the IEEE 802 family of standards.)

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NSF awards $20 million to two new testbeds to support cloud computing applications and experiments

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Cloud computing refers to the practice of using a network of remote servers to store, manage and process data, rather than a local server or a personal computer. Other partners on CloudLab include Raytheon BBN Technologies, the University of Massachusetts Amherst and US Ignite, Inc.

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24M emerges from stealth mode with new semi-solid Li-ion cell; <$100/kWh by 2020

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Semi-solid” refers to a material that is a mixture of liquid and solid phases—e.g., Condensed liquid” refers to a liquid that is not merely a solvent, as in the case of an aqueous flow cell semi-solid cathode or anode, but rather is itself redox active. The materials design enables up to 5x the area capacity of standard Li-ion.

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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He was a theoretical guy, on leave from the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a stint at the nearby research-and-development company Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN). In 1965, Larry Roberts, then at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory , connected one computer in Massachusetts to another in California over a telephone line.

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology student Ivan E. The issue is no longer 1950—a standard 6-by-10-cm mouse could now have dozens of buttons—but human factors, and the experts have strong opinions. The GUI started with Sketchpad The grandfather of the graphical user interface was Sketchpad [see photograph]. Mountain View, Calif.: “Two

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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A memory capable of storing all the information for a single video frame; the contents of a frame buffer can be controlled by special software to produce or modify images. The architecture goes back to the TX-2, built with 32 program counters at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln Laboratories in the late 1950s.

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Will CARB’s New Rules Damage EV Startups?

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When the air resources board relaxed its rules in 2003, it allowed car companies to receive credits toward zero-emission standards by building so-called partial-zero-emissions vehicles — super clean cars that produce little or no smog. This high-pollution moment is referred to as a cold start. Protheroe asked.

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