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Summary of decisions from Durban climate conference

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Governments at the COP17 meeting decided to adopt some form of a universal legal agreement on climate change as soon. Governments, including 35 industrialized countries, also agreed to a second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol—due to expire next year— from 1 January 2013. and to assist the Conference of the Parties.

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The Engineer Behind Samsung’s Speech Recognition Software

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The former executive vice president of Samsung Research’s Global AI Centers specializes in end-to-end speech recognition, end-to-end text-to-speech tools, and language modeling. He recently left Samsung to continue his work in the field at Korea University , in Seoul, leading the school’s speech and language processing laboratory.

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GM outlines plans for China with 17 launches this year; developing advanced propulsion and electrification tech in China

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General Motors discussed its future plans in China during a press conference in conjunction with the start of Auto Shanghai 2013. GM is also in the process of bringing Cadillac’s entire global portfolio to China, adding one locally produced model per year through 2016. —Gary Smyth. million units. —Bob Socia.

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Westport Innovations acquires alt fuel systems company Prins Autogassystemen for €12.2M

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Prins also collaborates with other technology partners such as Bosch, Continental and several technical universities. In October, a Prins technology paper presented at the 2013 Global Technology Conference (GTC) in London “Development of Dual Fuel technology: Prins Dieselblend-2.0 The company reported €19.7 Geographies.

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Learn How the President-Elect Candidates Plan to Improve IEEE

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Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers ' Conference Program Committee and has published articles in several of the organization's journals. Coughlin is also the founder of the Storage Networking Industry Association 's Solid State Storage Initiative, the Storage Visions Conference , and the Creative Storage Conference.

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A Young Professional on the Power of Mentorship

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She also provides guidance to university students and young professionals through outreach programs at Dell such as STEM Aspire. Finding that she enjoyed the work, Zakrzewska enrolled in 2010 in a doctoral program in wireless communications at the Technical University of Denmark , in Kongens Lyngby. Zakrzewska helps judge the entries.

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NAMII selects awardees of initial call for additive manufacturing applied research

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They also represent teaming by NAMII members with more than 30 different participating organizations, including eight universities and 25 industry partners from both small and large businesses. Qualification of Additive Manufacturing Processes and Procedures for Repurposing and Rejuvenation of Tooling”, Case Western Reserve University.