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Remembering Former IEEE President Ken Laker

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In addition to sharing his time and talents with IEEE, he was a professor of electrical engineering for 35 years at the University of Pennsylvania , in Philadelphia. Laker joined the University of Pennsylvania in 1984 as an EE professor. He left in 1977 to join Bell Labs , in Holmdel, N.J., as a member of the technical staff.

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Inventor of the First AI System That Could Read Handwriting Dies at 72

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Ishii was honored with several awards including the 2000 IEEE Millennium Medal , the 1984 IEEE Centennial Medal , and the 1969 T.C. Megargel worked as an electrical engineer for several companies including General Electric , Valley Forge , and International Signal and Control. Burnum IEEE Milwaukee Section Memorial Award.

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EIA releases report on CO2 emissions by state; California led in 2010 with transportation-sector emissions

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The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) has released a new report, State-Level Energy-Related Carbon Dioxide Emissions, 2000-2010. mt CO 2 ); and Pennsylvania (256.6 California consistently imports about 30% of its electricity and natural gas is the dominant fuel for the electricity that it generates internally.

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Study: California will hit climate targets >100 years too late at current pace of reductions; transportation, wildfires & landfills

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Since 2000, electricity has been the only economic sector that has seen continuous and significant improvements in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Between 2008 and 2017, total VMT increased 5% in California, but declined in Pennsylvania (-6%) and New York (-8%). Noel Perry, founder of Next 10.