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Autonomous driving visionary Dr. Lawrence Burns joining Neural Propulsion Systems as Executive Advisor; L4/L5 autonomous driving

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He has also advised numerous companies—including Google Self-Driving Cars/Waymo for over a decade. After leaving GM in 2009, Dr. Burns was a Professor of Engineering Practice at the University of Michigan (2011-2015), and Director of the Program for Sustainable Mobility at Columbia University (2010-2014).

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Pioneer of Google’s Data Centers Dies at 58

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Luiz André Barroso Data center pioneer Senior member, 59; died 16 September An engineer at Google for more than 20 years, Barroso is credited with designing the company’s warehouse-size data centers. He left Compaq in 2001 to join Google in Mountain View, Calif., as a software engineer.

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Labour's £5,000 sweetener to launch electric car revolution | Environment | The Guardian

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Photograph: Graeme Robertson/Guardian Consumers are to be offered incentives of up to £5,000 to purchase an electric car under government plans to be unveiled today that will also see the creation of electric car cities across the UK and the launch of large-scale experiments with ultra-green vehicles.

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How an Electrical Engineer Solved Australia’s Most Famous Cold Case

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This line of thought was strengthened, a few months later, by codelike writings in a book that came to be associated with the case. In 2009, I established a working group at the university’s Center for Biomedical Engineering. The police asked the public for copies of the book in which the final page had been torn out.

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US lawmakers to de-silence electric cars • The Register

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841 - more pedestrian-ly known as the Pedestrian Safety Enhancement Act of 2009 - doesnt specifically mention adding noise to otherwise silent vehicles. Both bills allow for two years for the "non-visual alert" study and another two for car manufacturers to implement the standard. The bill, S.

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Electric Car Manufacturers Inspire New Paradigms -- Seeking Alpha

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market b y the end of 2009. Kulongoski, Oregon as the electric-car manufacturer may be eyeing the “green” city of Portland. Think may use the former Freightliners plant site to employ over 1,000 workers that would ultimately expand to make 60,000 compact cars a year. The Norwegian company just last week met with Gov.

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Slow start for charge of the electric cars - Times Online

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Home Business Industry Sectors Engineering MY PROFILE SHOP JOBS PROPERTY CLASSIFIEDS From The Sunday Times April 19, 2009 Slow start for charge of the electric cars Ray Hutton Electric cars need a boost. Car buyers were less enthusiastic. Electric cars remain dependent on the development of better,affordable batteries.