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NHTSA awards Virginia Tech Transportation Institute $1M for V2V framework project

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The Virginia Tech institute has been building connected-vehicle technology since 2001. Funding for the institute’s Fairfax test-bed project came from the US Department of Transportation, the Virginia Department of Transportation, and Virginia Tech, among other resources.

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Getting More Students to Develop Tech That Benefits Society

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Estrin, a computer science professor at Cornell Tech , in New York City, founded the school’s Public Interest Tech Initiative to give students that opportunity. Her sister Judy is a successful tech entrepreneur, and her other sister, Margo, is a medical doctor. In 2006 Estrin expanded her research to digital health monitoring.

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Never Mind the Metaverse, Microsoft Plays for Your Living Room

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tech company— was broadly seen as a bet on a metaverse. The idea proved a fad, but Microsoft’s worries remained, paving way for the Xbox in 2001. Enjoyable content, not cutting-edge AR/VR hardware, is the key to building a successful metaverse—and that’s exactly what Meta lacks. The deal—the largest ever initiated by a U.S.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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In 2001, a team of engineers at a then-obscure R&D company called AC Propulsion quietly began a groundbreaking experiment. It occurred in the wake of the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001, when mismanaged deregulation, market manipulation, and environmental catastrophe combined to unhinge the power grid.

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Industrial Light & Magic Engineer Wins a Technical Oscar

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2023 Sci-Tech Awards: Mark Hills and Jim Vanns | FQ Render Farm Management System www.youtube.com Inspired by the Lord of the Rings Vanns grew up in Tonbridge, England, and played guitar for several bands as a teenager. But his love of cinema set him on a different path. But Vanns says there are plenty of other interesting roles available. “I

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Updated Life Cycle Analysis of Soybean Production and Products Show Environmental Improvements

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Currently, the data included in the Department of Energy’s US Life Cycle Inventory is based on three years, 1998 to 2001. This LCA project is based on US agricultural data for the 2001-2007 period. Omni Tech International, Ltd conducted the study for the United Soybean Board.

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Video Friday: Grav Enhanced

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ElliQ ] Tech Panel: The progression of robotics since Shakey the robot has been remarkable. DARPA ] Tech Panel: In 2004, DARPA launched interest in self-driving vehicles with a Grand Challenge. It was July 2001. KSC ] Social home robots have had a hard time of it, but ElliQ has promise with its focused value proposition.