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Remembering LED Pioneer Nick Holonyak

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Holonyak left GE in 1963 to become a professor of electrical and computer engineering and researcher at his alma mater, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Pioneering research at the University of Illinois. Holonyak left GE in 1963 and joined the University of Illinois as a professor of electrical and computer engineering.

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Bionic Hand Gives Amputees Sense of Touch

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He went on to earn a master's degree in computer science in 2008, also from Loyola. Two years later he was accepted into the Medical Scholars Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "I wanted to figure out a way to combine my interests in both engineering and medicine.". and a Ph.D.

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Turing Award Winner On His Pioneering Algorithms

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After graduating from Chicago State in 1972 with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics, Dongarra went on to pursue a master’s degree in computer science at the Illinois Institute of Technology , also in Chicago. In 2008 he received the first IEEE Medal of Excellence in Scalable Computing. Entrepreneurial Spirit.

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Why These Members Donate to the IEEE Foundation

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The IEEE Life Fellow, who served as 2008 IEEE president, has been a member ever since. Bahman Hoveida joined IEEE as a student member at the suggestion of one of his electrical engineering professors at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. to support the next generation of electrical engineers.

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U.S. Battery Makers Power Up

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LA Times, December 20, 2008. December 20, 2008 U.S. The alliance took its message to Congress this week, as staffers from at least four House members from Illinois took part in a conference call with the group. Tags: EV News Production News Inside Track. Battery Makers Work to Power Up. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.)

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Funding boost for Smart Grid proposals

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The $47million will support existing projects that are advancing demonstration-scale smart grid technologies and adds to the $17million that was awarded by the Department to these projects in 2008. Tags: Electric cars Green cars Latest news Smart Grid US Department of Energy. So what are the projects that will benefit?

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The easiest conversions are for 2004-2008 Prius (not 2001-2003 Prius) and the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner Hybrid. Check out past CalCars news , or subscribe to our low-traffic PHEV newsletter at right: Copyright  2003-08 California Cars Initiative, an activity of the International Humanities Center | Site Map.

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