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Report finds road transportation sector in Canada likely to fall far short of 2050 GHG emissions reduction target

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A new Conference Board of Canada report finds that Canada is unlikely to achieve an 80% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 levels by 2050. Canada’s road transport emissions were 40% higher in 2013 than in 1990. Meeting the 80% reduction would entail a reduction of approximately 117 Mt CO 2 e from 2013 levels.

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A Young Professional on the Power of Mentorship

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in 2013, she joined Nokia Bell Labs in Dublin as a research scientist working in wireless communications and self-organizing networks. She signed up, she says, so she could publish a paper in one of IEEE’s conference proceedings. After earning her Ph.D. She has been granted several patents, which have been commercialized.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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At issue is the 2012 expiration of the Kyoto Protocol, a binding but effectively unenforceable 1997 treaty that had set greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets for 40 industrialized countries, referred to as Annex 1 countries, yielding an average GHG reduction of 5.2%

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This Nobel Laureate Paved the Way for High-Intensity Lasers

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She is an extremely giving person and a shining example of what an IEEE honorary member should be.” She is an extremely giving person and a shining example of what an IEEE honorary member should be.” It wasn’t until Strickland and Mourou attended the 1984 International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena that they found the solution.

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Ford showcasing vehicle-to-vehicle communication for crash avoidance; potential for leveraging WiFi and smartphones to extend quickly the number of participating vehicles

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The US DOT’s is preparing NHTSA for a decision in 2013 that will determine whether the agency proceeds with regulatory activities that could require DSRC technology on new vehicles, consumer information programs that help new car buyers understand the effectiveness of this technology, or the need for further research and development.

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How We Judge The Top Programming Languages

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Our interactive ranking of the most popular programming languages was first created by data journalist Nick Diakopoulos in 2013. million conference and journal articles covering a wide array of scientific and engineering disciplines. We collected data using the Reddit API. The search was conducted in August 2022.

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Speech Processing Pioneer Sadaoki Furui Dies at 77

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He left Tokyo in 2013 to become president of the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago and served in that position until 2019. Furui was a member of several IEEE committees and served as general co-chair of this year’s IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing , held in May in Singapore.