22 Evidences That Confirm We’re Living In The Future

Posted on September 9, 2016 by dkohn96

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Star Trek – Prelude to Axanar

Posted on September 9, 2016 by dkohn96

Website for Axanar

Is CBS Making a mistake by trying to stop Axanar from being made?

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The African-American women behind NASA’s rocket launches

Posted on September 7, 2016 by dkohn96

From CBS News
Sep 7, 2016

A group of women at NASA called “human computers,” many of them black, helped put a man on the moon. Their intellect was an essential part of America’s ability to launch rockets into space. Jan Crawford shows us how they were relegated to a footnote in history — until now.

A book was published about these women call “Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race” by Margot Lee Shetterly.

Also a movie is coming out in Jan 2017 about these women……

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Happy Birthday Star Trek

Posted on September 5, 2016 by dkohn96

I can’t believe that Star Trek is turning 50 years old this week. Think how many engineers were inspired by that show (I include myself among them) and how many technological advances it helped bring about: Blue Tooth Headsets, cell phones, flat screen tv’s, computers, voice recognition, tablet pc’s and so much more.

Happy Birthday!

Can’t wait for Star Trek Discovery (new series in Jan 2017)! Until then, here is the trailer:

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Learn About Careers in Engineering & Technology – IEEE SparkIEEE Spark | Imagine. Inspire. Ignite.

Posted on September 3, 2016 by dkohn96

http://spark.ieee.org/

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NASA’s Space Robotics Challenge: The Tasks, the Prizes, and How to Participate – IEEE Spectrum

Posted on August 30, 2016 by dkohn96

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/space-robots/nasa-space-robotics-challenge-tasks-prizes-how-to-participate/?utm_source=RoboticsNews&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_campaign=RN08302016

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Robot Octopus Points the Way to Soft Robotics With Eight Wiggly Arms – IEEE Spectrum

Posted on August 25, 2016 by dkohn96

http://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/robotics-hardware/robot-octopus-points-the-way-to-soft-robotics-with-eight-wiggly-arms?utm_source=Tech+Alert&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=TechAlert_08-25-16&bt_email=daniel.kohn@ieee.org&bt_ts=1472129056556

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LattePanda | A Palm-sized Computer Running Win10 With Build-in Arduino

Posted on August 21, 2016 by dkohn96

http://www.lattepanda.com/

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Article: The Megaprocessor is an awe-inspiring multi-ton CPU project

Posted on August 19, 2016 by dkohn96

The Megaprocessor is an awe-inspiring multi-ton CPU project

http://flip.it/rQaT_J

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Evanoff: Memphis’ newest tech firm gets around skills shortage

Posted on August 17, 2016 by dkohn96

http://www.commercialappeal.com/columnists/ted-evanoff/Evanoff-Memphis-newest-tech-firm-gets-around-skills-shortage-387961612.html?d=mobile

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