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MIT study says combustion emissions cause ~200,000 premature deaths/year in US; vehicles and power generation top sources

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Source: MIT. Researchers from MIT’s Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment have concluded that ground-level PM 2.5 2000 (90% CI: 0–4,000) early deaths from ozone, according to the study. Click to enlarge. 52,000 (90% CI: 23,000–94,000) PM 2.5 related and ?2,000 2,000 (90% CI: ?300 Industrial emissions contribute to ?41,000

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Celebrating the Life of Columbia Professor Stephen Unger

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in EE from MIT in 1953 and 1957, respectively. Unger’s personal blog, “ Ends and Means ,” addressed ethical questions surrounding education, electronic voting, robotics, and other topics. He received several awards including the 2000 IEEE Millennium Medal , the 1987 IEEE-USA Robert S.

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Getting More Students to Develop Tech That Benefits Society

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The professor is the recipient of this year’s IEEE John von Neumann Medal for “leadership in mobile and wireless sensing systems technologies and applications, including personal health management.” student in electrical engineering and computer science at MIT. ?IEEE: The award is sponsored by IBM.

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The New Supersonic Boom

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Piloting the bullet-shaped Bell X-1 rocket plane in 1947, Chuck Yeager became the first person to exceed the speed of sound while in horizontal flight. Fourteen production aircraft were manufactured, but one was scrapped in 1994 and another crashed in 2000.). Everett Collection/Alamy.

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Science Fiction Short: Hijack

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Quantum simulation of ecosystems is another, says Seth Lloyd , a quantum physicist at MIT. They’d been able to do it only because millions of people believed that in dismantling Mercury E and turning it into a sun-powered F quantum computer G there would be enough computing power for every living person to upload their consciousness into it.

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MIT Energy Initiative report on transforming the US transportation system by 2050 to address climate challenges

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On the Road toward 2050” is a synthesis of research conducted in the Sloan Automotive Laboratory at MIT over the past five years, primarily under the direction of Heywood, with support from the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) as well as MITEI Founding Member Eni S.p.A. BP, Chevron, Concawe, the Department of Energy U.S.-China

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