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Remembering Former IEEE President Ken Laker

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The US $10,000 scholarship is administered by IEEE Educational Activities and is payable over four years of undergraduate university study. 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. He retired in 2019.

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

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University at Buffalo. State University of New York as well as the University of Buffalo , where he founded its Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition. Bangalore University in India. in computer and information science in 1976 from Ohio State University , in Columbus. Sargur “Hari” Srihari.

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BATT Program Awards More Than $8 Million for Innovative Research Projects on Lithium Battery Anodes

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The awardees include two national laboratories, five universities, and one private non-profit research institute. Binghamton University. Drexel University. National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the University of Colorado. Pennsylvania State University. Stanford University (Yi Cui).

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EST Editor Calls for Papers on Gulf Spill; Ending the Addiction

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Henry Chair, Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Iowa and the Editor of the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology is calling on Gulf researchers to consider submitting their scientific articles about the oil spill to ES&T. Jerald Schnoor, the Allen S. The high energy tides (15 ft [4.6

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

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Will we have a universal standard for charging? Is 381 miles by the shortest route and 420 miles if I take the Pennsylvania Turnpike. in 2000 to 0.7 What about the road trip my partner and I have in mind for next summer, to Yosemite and back? We live in a townhouse in a row of townhouses. What exactly is fast charging?

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

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Will we have a universal standard for charging? Is 381 miles by the shortest route and 420 miles if I take the Pennsylvania Turnpike. in 2000 to 0.7 What about the road trip my partner and I have in mind for next summer, to Yosemite and back? We live in a townhouse in a row of townhouses. What exactly is fast charging?