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A study by a team from the University of Cambridge (UK) and MIT attributes ~8,000 premature mortalities per year to aircraft cruise emissions. Lead author Steven Barrett from MIT notes that there are many uncertainties, including how accurately the model reflects how air travels vertically from high altitudes to low altitudes.

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Schwartz Former IEEE chief financial officer Life member, 77; died 22 October Schwartz served as CFO of IEEE from 1993 to 2010. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in business administration from Iona University , in New Rochelle, N.Y. He probably was best known for developing Macsyma , MIT Project MAC’s symbolic manipulator.

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Nissan said that its engineers have been carrying out intensive research on the technology for years, alongside teams from universities including MIT, Stanford, Oxford, Carnegie Mellon and the University of Tokyo. In 2007 I pledged that—by 2010—Nissan would mass-market a zero-emission vehicle. Nissan Motor Co.,

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by 2010 and 9% wt. For this innovation, Rafiee is the winner of the 2010 $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Rensselaer Student Prize, and is among the four 2010 $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Collegiate Student Prize winners this year. Rafiee is the fourth recipient of the Lemelson-MIT Rensselaer Student Prize.

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The investment is in addition to the $50 million investment over the next five years with MIT and Stanford, each close by TRI’s new offices, to establish joint fundamental artificial intelligence research centers at each university.) To those ends, TRI has launched 30 initial projects with its partners at Stanford and MIT.

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JANUARY 9, 2013

University and research partners include Brown University, the Colorado School of Mines, Purdue University, Rutgers University, University of California-Davis, Iowa State University, and Florida Industrial and Phosphate Research Institute. SpinTek Filtration, Inc.; Advanced Recovery; Cytec, Inc.;

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JANUARY 7, 2016

According to the report— 2016 State of Self-Driving Automotive Innovation —there were more than 22,000 new inventions related to self-driving automobiles between January 2010 and October 2015, with some clear leaders already emerging in the space. Given that, the field is ripe for partnership, according tomthe analysts.

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JANUARY 13, 2022

Kathleen Kramer JT MacMillan Kramer is a professor of electrical engineering at the University of San Diego , where she served as chair of the EE department and director of engineering from 2004 to 2013. As director she provided academic leadership for all of the university’s engineering programs. To sign Kosuge’s petition, click here.

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The 21,500 tonne hull was launched in 2010, although construction work was frozen in mid-2011 amid bankruptcy proceedings against the shipyard. Using established designs minimizes technological risks, says Buongiorno, an associate professor of nuclear science and engineering (NSE) at MIT.

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Goodenough, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Texas at Austin , authored more than 800 technical papers during his career. Following World War II, he pursued a doctorate in physics at the University of Chicago. His ability to cross disciplines started at MIT. “At Nobel Laureate John B.

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A team of researchers at MIT and Pennsylvania State University, which has been working on a new layer-by-layer (LbL) method for producing novel kinds of membranes, has developed a new solid-state polymer electrolyte for use in electrochemical devices such as fuel cells and batteries using that method. Argun et al. Herring, David K.Y.

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First established in 2010, the Hubs are major integrated research centers, with researchers from many different institutions and technical backgrounds. Universities, national laboratories, nonprofit organizations, and private firms are eligible to compete and are encouraged to form partnerships when submitting their proposals.

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Hodges Former dean of engineering Life Fellow, 85; died 13 November Hodges, who was dean of engineering at the University of California, Berkeley , conducted pioneering research in IC design and semiconductor manufacturing. In 1983 he helped found the university’s Microfabrication Research Facility, known as Microfab. for 37 years.

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A collaboration including researchers from Boston College, MIT, the University of Virginia and Clemson University have achieved a peak ZT (thermoelectric figure of merit) of 0.8 And a team from Northwestern University and the University of Michigan reported experimentally achieving a ZT of 1.7 Simonson, S.

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Without significant additional policy interventions to induce market penetration of breakthrough passenger car and aircraft technologies, the overall European (EU27) greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction goals for 2050 will be difficult to meet, according to a new study by researchers from the University of Cambridge, Stanford University and MIT.

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Persson is also a co-founder of Pellion Technologies—an MIT spin-off co-founded by Dr. Gerbrand Ceder, funded by Vinod Khosla, and recipient of an ARPA-E grant ( earlier post ) that is developing a magnesium-ion (Mg-ion) rechargeable battery. Chemistry of Materials 2010 22 (3), 860-868 doi: 10.1021/cm9016497. Resources.

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MARCH 4, 2016

NASA’s recent focus on supersonic research testing began in November 2010 as part of the project’s Experimental Systems Validations for N+2 Supersonic Commercial Transport Aircraft effort. million over four years to MIT. Quiet Nozzle Concepts for Low Boom Aircraft; $575,000 over two years to University of California, Irvine.

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In 2010 in a presentation at the DOE’s DEER conference, Dr. Dennis Assanis, then at the University of Michigan, presented results of investigations by a university consortium on high pressure, lean burn (HPLB) engines, including and exploration of the benefits of a µWASP approach. Click to enlarge.

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An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Maryland’s A. In parallel, we are collaborating with our colleagues at Drexel and MIT to construct surfaces that resemble the structure of plant leaves. James Culver’s work is conducted in collaboration with Purdue University professor Michael Harris.

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The US Department of Energy announced $75 million in funding to renew the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis ( JCAP ), a DOE Energy Innovation Hub originally established in 2010 with the goal of harnessing solar energy for the production of fuel. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 24, 2022

Gerald Estrin led the development of the WEIZAC , the first digital electronic computer made in the Middle East, and he helped found the computer science department at the University of California, Los Angeles. student in electrical engineering and computer science at MIT. ?IEEE:

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The report combines estimates of technology cost from the National Academy of Sciences and MIT with the costs benefit analysis previously prepared by the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to derive its estimates of what is technologically feasible and economically justified.

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A 2010 NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) analysis concluded that V2V systems potentially could address 79% of all vehicle target crashes, 81% of all light-vehicle target crashes, and 71% of all heavy-truck target crashes annually. MIT and smart intersections. Michele Weigle, Old Dominion University, 2008).

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In 1997, Willett Kempton , a professor at the University of Delaware, and Steve Letendre , a professor at Green Mountain College, in Vermont, began publishing a series of journal articles that imagined the bidirectional EV as a resource for electricity utilities. After earning a Ph.D.

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Today, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to scientists from MIT, Columbia University, and the New York–based company Nanocrystals Technology for “the development of quantum dots , nanoparticles so tiny that their size determines their properties.” It’s a welcome development.

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Researchers at MIT had earlier demonstrated the ability to make biopropane (LPG from corn or sugarcane) using a supercritical water process, and created a startup (C3 BioEnergy) in 2007 that attempted to commercialize the technology. (JGS) The University of Kitakyushu process for the conversion of DME to LPG using hydrogen.

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Among the most articulate and almost certainly the wonkiest is Jesse Jenkins , a professor of engineering at Princeton University, where he heads the ZERO Lab—the Zero-carbon Energy systems Research and Optimization Laboratory, that is. So when I went to MIT to do my Ph.D., I and Nestor Sepulveda , who was also a Ph.D.

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At the SAE 2010 World Congress in Detroit, a series of new papers explored different aspects of strategies and implementations of using boosted HCCI to extend the HCCI engine operating range. Papers came from research teams including: the University of Michigan and GM R&D; Robert Bosch GmbH; Sandia National Laboratories; and MIT.

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Its story began a decade earlier, in 1997, at the MIT Media Lab , when it was created by two students, J.D. Electronic-ink researchers had been pursuing color e-paper for years, as had other researchers around the world, in universities, corporate research labs, and startups. From the very beginning, e-paper seemed magical.

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VSP, proposed by José Luis Jiménez-Palacios in his doctoral dissertation at MIT in 1999, has been since widely used to quantify the impact of vehicle operating conditions on emission and energy consumption estimates that are dependent upon speed, roadway grade and acceleration or deceleration on the basis of the second-by-second vehicle operation.

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In 2010, Henry Evans saw a robot on TV. at MIT under Rodney Brooks. It was a PR2 , from the robotics company Willow Garage, and Georgia Tech robotics professor Charlie Kemp was demonstrating how the PR2 was able to locate a person and bring them a bottle of medicine. But for Evans, the robot had the potential to be life changing.

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In an accompanying Perspective in Science , Dr. Yet-Ming Chiang (MIT professor and co-founder of A123Systems), noted: Innovations in the battery field are infrequent and hard-won. Yet-Ming Chiang (2010) Building a Better Battery. Credit: AAAS, Huang et al. Click to enlarge. V vs. LiCoO 2. Mao, Nicholas S. Science doi: 10.1126/science.1198591.

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Basic elements of the plan, which was published in the Strüngmann Forum Report , Linkages of Sustainability , include: Two universally accessible but completely independent transportation networks: one for LLMs, the other for FHVs. Thus, two universally accessible, but separate networks are needed. Graedel and Ester van der Voet, 2010.

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In addition, if too much of a planet-scale computer’s mass is concentrated in one place, “it could implode under its own weight,” says Anders Sandberg , a senior research fellow at the University of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute. Quantum simulation of ecosystems is another, says Seth Lloyd , a quantum physicist at MIT.

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APRIL 21, 2009

GM has announced plans for public sales in 2010, and almost every carmaker now says it will sell PHEVs or highway-speed battery electric vehicles (BEVs) sometime after 2010. Committed to sales of 10,000 or more vehicles in late 2010, with increasing production in 2011. Aims to get Saturn Vue on road in 2010; no production goal.

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A new study by a team from the University of Pennsylvania and MIT suggests it will be easier for cities to reduce CO 2 emissions coming from residential energy use rather than from local transportation. This reduction will happen mostly thanks to better building practices, not greater housing density.

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