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The James Webb Space Telescope was a Career-Defining Project for Janet Barth

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She conducted research on radiation environments and their effects on electronic systems. Congress and launched in 2001. In 2001 she was selected to be project manager for a NASA test bed that aimed to understand how spacecraft are affected by their environment. She wrote its space-environment specifications.

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The Engineer Behind Samsung’s Speech Recognition Software

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After joining Google’s acoustic modeling team in 2013, he worked to ensure the company’s AI assistive technology, used in Google Home products, could perform in the presence of background noise. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Seoul National University in 1998 and 2001, respectively.

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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“People were really interested in clean air and clean water, so I decided there would always be interest in the environment,” Crawford says. You study many areas in civil engineering, including structures, soils, transportation, and the environment,” she says. In 2001 she realized her goal of working on a satellite mission.

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

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The 15 th Congress, also known as the 15 th Conference of Parties, or COP 15, was initially intended to be a largely procedural summit, with many major negotiating points settled and most environmental ministers prepared to sign a binding emissions treaty that contained specific emissions targets as well as commitments to financing structures.

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Perspective: A View Into the New GM

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The morning session started out with an hour long press conference, the highlight being the unveiling of the Volt’s 230 mpg preliminary EPA city fuel economy finding ( earlier post ), as well as a tour showing selected elements from the studios of the four GM North American brands: Chevrolet, GMC, Buick and Cadillac. million vehicles/year.

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