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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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10-year study shows how air pollution fosters heart disease; accelerated plaque build-up in arteries

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Participant-specific pollutant concentrations averaged over the years 2000–10 ranged from 9.2–22.6 In an accompanying editorial in The Lancet , Dr. Bert Brunekreef, a professor at Utrecht University in The Netherlands, and Dr. Barbara Hoffmann, a professor of the University of Düsseldorf in Germany, described the study as “ exemplary.”

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New split-cycle concept to control diesel HCCI combustion

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A team from Universita degli Studi di Pisa (Italy) and Rolf Reitz at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are proposing a novel combustion concept—Homogenous Charge Progressive Combustion (HCPC)—based on a split-cycle principle to control HCCI combustion in diesel-fueled engines.

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Study finds unprecedented urbanization and urban expansion in East-Southeast Asia from 2000 to 2010

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The study reveals that between 2000 and 2010, the population of East-Southeast Asia grew by 231 million people; if this were the population of a single country, it would be the fifth most populous country in the world. —Professor Annemarie Schneider from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, lead author. Resources.

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ORNL Research Project Seeks to Boost Combustion Engine Efficiency To 50-60% By Reducing Combustion Irreversibility; RAPTR

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ORNL is working with a number of university partners (Texas A&M University, University of Wisconsin, Illinois Institute of Technology, University of Alabama, University of Michigan, Dearborn) on the project, as well as Delphi on the catalyst side, a not-for-profit R&D institution, and an unnamed OEM.

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Promising Delphi 1st-gen Gasoline Direct Injection Compression Ignition engine meeting ultra fuel efficient program targets

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In 2010, The US Department of Energy (DOE) selected Delphi, along with partners Hyundai America Technical Center, Inc (HATCI); Wisconsin Engine Research Consultants (WERC); and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) for a $7.48-million BSFC of 280 g/kWh was measured at 2000 rpm-2bar BMEP. Earlier post , earlier post.).

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Warburg Pincus to invest up to $355M in First Green; focus on early-stage technologies in the carbon value chain; renewable fuels and chemicals, and green-black tech

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In addition to his experience at Khosla Ventures and Cargill, co-president Doug Cameron is currently a consulting professor of chemical engineering at Stanford University and was formerly a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Madison from 1986 to 2000.

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