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Saifur Rahman is 2022 IEEE President-Elect

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He is the founding director of the Advanced Research Institute at the university, which helps faculty members get access to research funding, government laboratories, and industry research centers. Rahman is the founding editor in chief of the IEEE Electrification Magazine and the IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy.

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This Lockheed Martin Researcher’s Work on UAVs Saves Lives

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While attending the Federal University of Technology in Owerri, Nigeria, he interned at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corp., While attending the Federal University of Technology in Owerri, Nigeria, he interned at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corp., They didn’t remain mysterious for long. And everything changed.

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Traveling Through Time, Exploring the String Theory and Hugging the Giant Sequoias

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We also found magazines ( Utne Reader anyone?) I pulled an old issue of Sierra (the magazine of the Sierra Club) from July/August 1997. Al Gore is one reason I like to believe in my own favorite version of the String Theory of particle physics – multiple alternative universes occurring simultaneously is the way I like to grok it.

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This Engineer’s Job Is to Keep Arkansas Nuclear One Safe

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She was inspired by her parents, who worked in biology, and by her reading of physics journals and engineering and science magazines. student at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock, when she interned at Arkansas Nuclear One. That process was created after the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan.

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Speech Processing Pioneer Sadaoki Furui Dies at 77

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He was named director of the university’s library in 2009 and became director of the Contents Utilization Center in 2011, when he was named professor emeritus. He earned bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in mathematical engineering and instrumentation physics from the University of Tokyo in 1968, 1970, and 1978, respectively.

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AI Is Helping to Stop Animal Poaching and Food Insecurity

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For Fang’s work in the field, she was named one of IEEE Intelligent Systems magazine ’s “ AI’s 10 to Watch in 2020.”. Although she enjoyed coding, she decided to pursue a degree in biology at Tsinghua University , in Beijing. She eventually changed her major to electrical engineering because, she says, she found it more interesting.

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Traveling Through Time, Exploring the String Theory and Hugging the Giant Sequoias

Creative Greenius

We also found magazines ( Utne Reader anyone?) I pulled an old issue of Sierra (the magazine of the Sierra Club) from July/August 1997. Al Gore is one reason I like to believe in my own favorite version of the String Theory of particle physics – multiple alternative universes occurring simultaneously is the way I like to grok it.

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