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Virgin Orbit Develops Ventilator For Pandemic Response

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Long Beach-based space launch company Virgin Orbit has temporarily shifted its attention from developing rockets and its satellite launch systems, and applied its engineering skills to developing a new ventilator, designed to help in the battle against the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.

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Human Centered Design: If it Doesn't Work for Humans, It Doesn't Work

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Tuesday, November 8, 2011 -- Human Centered Design: If it Doesn't Work for Humans, It Doesn't Work. The talk is based on both research and our students repeated success in following this integrated design method in their year-long Capstone projects at UCI. See [link] (more)

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The Future of the Automobile

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UCI-Calit2. A variety of pressures are creating a dramatic change in the engine that will power the automobile in the future, the fuel that will be used to power the engine, and the design of the power train. Wednesday, January 20, 2010 -- The Future of the Automobile.

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How Beatshare Is Tackling Music And Messaging

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Before that, I was at a multimedia design academy in high school. I've always been a mobile enthusiast, in technology and design and user experience. Barry Lieberman: My backgruond is about 35 years in technology, business development, and sales and marketing. That funding was geared towards development of our product.

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Interview with George Ruan and Donald Patterson, Quub

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Don Patterson: It took a long time to converge on what we were actually doing, and we started on a path of developing stuff, working with interaction designers, and forcing ourselves to identify what service we were really trying to provide. How has the spinout experience from UCI been?

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