Word: designs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Medical Association and American Heart Association. Neither was interested at the time because Winchell had not produced a working model. But the University of Utah's Dr. Willem Kolff was. Kolff, who had already invented the first artificial kidney that patients could use, looked over Winchell's design and found it similar to one he had been working on. He invited the entertainer to work and experiment at the medical center (where Winchell also assisted in transplants...
Winchell has been so impressed by Kolff's work that he has turned his patent over to the University of Utah, where Kolff has already kept calves alive for as long as 14 days with artificial hearts of his own design. Winchell's work may help improve upon that record...
...competitive reasons, IBM will not reveal the precise chemistry of the lead alloys used in its junctions. In fact, the company is cautiously refraining from predicting when they will be used in practical computers; many design problems must be overcome before computers can be built to operate at superconducting temperatures. Nonetheless, IBM's laboratory triumph and continuing research by the world's largest computer manufacturer suggests that high-speed, supercooled electronic brains are not far in the future...
Still, a certain freshness and life manage to shine through more conventional mannerisms in these 53 works. The subjects include animals, native rituals, and portraits. Exhibited in the museum's North American Indian gallery, the styles echo the design of everyday artifacts displayed nearby. All the painting, I think, are of outdoor subjects, and in general they rely on clearly defined outlines and shapes of flat color...
...professor at the Graduate School of Design has initiated a program that will seek to match students, particularly women and members of minority groups, with job openings for teaching on college and university faculties of planning across the country...