Word: carlson
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...that every branch of the U.S. military sponsors a stock-car team, the armed services are looking to NASCAR for more than just a recruiting vehicle. Some of the techniques and equipment perfected on the tracks could easily benefit the Pentagon's trucks and aircraft. For starters, Carlson Technology, which advises teams on how to shave seconds off pit stops, and Roush Industries, which manages nine teams--including one sponsored by the Army National Guard--have shown the Army's National Automotive Center, near Detroit, how to reduce significantly the time it takes to change out the engine...
...time to join the Long March to northern Shaanxi province beginning in October 1934, and continued to support Mao's approach, eventually becoming political commissar of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army. A U.S. military observer who met Deng during this period, Marine Corps Major Evans Carlson, remembered him as "short, chunky and physically tough, with a mind as keen as mustard...
When the plain-paper copying process was discovered in 1938, its revolutionary potential was so little appreciated that Inventor Chester Carlson wound up selling it to the Battelle Memorial Institute, a research foundation in Columbus. In 1947, Battelle in turn sold the technology to the company that eventually became Xerox. Now Battelle has warned that Carlson's invention, which has become not only an office fixture but something of a technological wonder, will by the end of the decade be capable of duplicating the delicate shadings of U.S. currency. In a study for the Federal Reserve, Battelle predicts that...
...rare attributes raise The Making of a Public Man beyond the category of benign memoir. One is Linowitz's talent for spare, telling portraits. Among them: Chester Carlson, the arthritic, scholarly patent attorney who, in a one-room laboratory behind a beauty parlor in Astoria, Queens, invented the process that made Xerox a name to copy. Linowitz tells how, as the firm's lawyer and later its chairman, he helped Carlson and Joseph Wilson, an impossibly energetic Rochester businessman, launch a product that ended up creating its own demand. The now ubiquitous machine, says Linowitz, "was a case where invention...
Indeed, creating objects that have natural-looking textures is one of the key challenges facing computer artists. "It's very easy to make something look smooth, like plastic or ice," says Wayne Carlson, director of production at Cranston/Csuri Productions in Columbus. "What's difficult is to give something the mottled look of bark, leaves or grass." Texture mapping, a computer technique akin to wrapping a photograph of a rough rock around a smooth stone, is one solution to the problem. Another involves the use of a class of equations called fractals. "It's a technology for filling in random surfaces...