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Honeywell Automation India appoints Atul Pai as Managing Director | Autocar Professional

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Atul brings more than two decades of Honeywell experience in various regional and global roles across Honeywell and its finance division. Pai joined HAIL in 2001 and has held several leadership roles across the business. Pai is a qualified Chartered Accountant and holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Mumbai University.

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Empa and partners exploring DME as fuel with new heavy-duty test engine

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The research project is co-financed by the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (FOEN). The platform for these discussions is the “International DME Association” founded in 2001, which currently has 50 members from science and industry. The project still in the pre-competitive phase, Soltic said.

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Li-ion maker Amprius raises $30M to accelerate commercialization of high-energy, high-capacity batteries

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Amprius’ technology was initially developed at Professor Yi Cui’s laboratory at Stanford University; Prof. SAIF Partners, a leading Asian private equity firm, led the financing, in which all of Amprius’ previous investors participated. SAIF Partners was founded in 2001 and currently manages over $3.6 billion in capital.

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ARRA funding raises R&D expenditures within federally funded R&D centers 11% to $16.8B in FY 2010

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FFRDCs are privately operated R&D organizations that are exclusively or substantially financed by the federal government. Each FFRDC is operated, managed, and/or administered by a university or university consortium, a nonprofit organization, or an industrial firm, either as an autonomous organization or as a separate operating unit.

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Video-Game Engineer Sushama Chakraverty Answered the Call of Duty

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Back in 2001, she spotted a poster on her professor’s door advertising for an internship, and she applied without knowing the company she’d be working for. She left India to pursue a master’s degree in computer science at the University of Maryland , Baltimore County. It turned out to be Atari , the legendary video-game company.

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The Real Story of Pixar

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Rather, the original spark often comes from a university lab , a renegade group at a large company, or a hobbyist building stuff for fun. Catmull and Blanchard had been involved with software designed to build 3D geometric objects at the University of Utah. Ross Perot. Pixar Image Computer. Mark Richards/Computer History Museum.

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From Fixing Farm Equipment to Becoming a Director at 3M

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During the day he installed telecommunication equipment for Michigan Bell , a subsidiary of AT&T, and at night he attended the Lawrence Institute of Technology (now Lawrence Technological University ), in Southfield, outside of Detroit. After he was discharged, he continued his education at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

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