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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. But Trek 2000 hardly became a household name. This was granted to Amir Ban, Dov Moran, and Oron Ogdan in November 2000.

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DLR and Wuppertal publish comprehensive global analysis of e-mobility technologies, outlook and lifecycle assessments

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million euro grant from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung; BMBF) as part of the STROM support program (key technologies for electromobility). They counted more than 500 electric passenger vehicles of all those types worldwide in the period from 2000 to 2013.

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Getting More Students to Develop Tech That Benefits Society

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She left USC in 2000 to join UCLA and founded the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing. CENS brought together technologists, data scientists, seismologists, ecologists, and environmental engineers to research how embedded networked sensing could be used to study wildlife and the environment.

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Learn How the President-Elect Candidates Plan to Improve IEEE

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I believe that IEEE should be open to all technologists and that we should create a safe environment that supports our members to be their best selves. He was granted two U.S. Rahman was also the 2006 chair of IEEE Publication Services and Products Board and a member of the. Nominated by the IEEE Board of Directors.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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The last official UNFCCC meeting prior to the 15 th Congress ended 6 November in Barcelona, and environment ministers have been shuttling in and out of Copenhagen since then to conduct ad hoc negotiations prior to the summit. ” —British Energy Secretary Ed Miliband, summing up the historical significance of COP 15. ºF) increase.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

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When I got back from Japan in 2000 I didn’t want to start a computer business. In 2000 there couldn’t have been too many old timers in the solar industry. Granted, they’re all known as known as much sunnier places than California. IT’S NOT ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT, IT’S ABOUT SPINNING THINGS FAST. The environment?

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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The United States must reduce its global warming pollution emissions at least 80 percent below 2000 levels by 2050 to avoid some of the worst effects of global warming. This suggests that rates of technological progress are likely to increase under a cap-and-trade program. Issues Regional Cap-and-Trade Programs Must Address. of Renergie, Inc.

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