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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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And this incremental nature of innovation means that controlling the spread, manufacturing, and further development of new ideas is almost impossible. it meant you must have a good idea and you should make the most of it, as quickly as possible.”—Henn Henn Tan holds up a ThumbDrive during an interview in Singapore in January 2006.

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Audi highlights vehicle-to-vehicle communication technology at CES; travolution project as a model

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Audi used the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Audi to highlight an array of vehicle communications and infotainment ideas, among them a further exploration of its car-to-car technology (Car-2-X) that could reduce fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions. Autonomous driving could be one future outcome of this new level of connectivity.

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We Need to Decarbonize Software

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The Sustainable Web Design Community Group of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was established in 2013, while the Green Web Foundation began in 2006 as a way to understand the kinds of energy that power the Internet. The path to green software began more than 10 years ago.

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Getting More Students to Develop Tech That Benefits Society

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CENS brought together technologists, data scientists, seismologists, ecologists, and environmental engineers to research how embedded networked sensing could be used to study wildlife and the environment. In 2006 Estrin expanded her research to digital health monitoring.

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Being More Inclusive is Paying Off for This IEEE Society

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IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society started more than two decades ago to become a more welcoming and inclusive environment for women and members from outside the United States. Ruth Dyer coordinated the first informal networking session for women in 2006 at the society’s flagship event, the.

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Being More Inclusive is Paying Off for This IEEE Society

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IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society started more than two decades ago to become a more welcoming and inclusive environment for women and members from outside the United States. Ruth Dyer coordinated the first informal networking session for women in 2006 at the society’s flagship event, the.

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Learn How the President-Elect Candidates Plan to Improve IEEE

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This should start at the section level, but the idea of community should pervade IEEE, helping us be inclusive, efficient, and effective. I believe that IEEE should be open to all technologists and that we should create a safe environment that supports our members to be their best selves. He also led the effort to establish the.