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This Rice University Professor Developed Cancer-Detection Technology

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Richards-Kortum is a professor of bioengineering at Rice University , in Houston, and codirector of the Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies , which is developing affordable medical equipment for underresourced hospitals. Before, I had no idea that college professors did something called research. After earning her Ph.D.

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Study finds shortage of critical metals could put the brakes on electrification in Europe

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With the current raw material production levels there will not be enough of these metals in future—not even if recycling increases, according to the findings of a major survey led by Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, on behalf of the European Commission. tonnes from all the EU member states.

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An Engineer Who Keeps Meta’s AI infrastructure Humming

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She enrolled at Andrés Bello Catholic University in Caracas in 2001 to study telecommunications engineering. The certificate opened the door to her first job in 2006—managing the computer network of a business-process outsourcing company, Atento , in Caracas. We help translate these ideas into the real world,” Contrera says.

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IEEE Power & Energy Society President Dies at 69

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In 2006 he became a distinguished lecturer and spoke about his work in Asia, Europe, and the United States. in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California , in Los Angeles. Ferreira's first job, in 1981, was at the Institute of Power Electronics and Electric Drives at Aachen University , in Germany.

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The Meeting of the Minds That Launched AI

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Milner was working on neuropsychology at McGill University , in Montreal, although he had trained as an electrical engineer. Most of the time I had no idea what they were talking about.” How neurons might inhibit this effect were among his ideas that led to new insights at the workshop. This makes perfect sense.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. And this incremental nature of innovation means that controlling the spread, manufacturing, and further development of new ideas is almost impossible.

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The Godfather of South Korea’s Chip Industry

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Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) assumed top posts in the industry as well as coveted positions teaching or researching semiconductors at universities and government institutes. He studied at Seoul National University and then at Columbia University, in New York City, where he earned his doctorate under.