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NASA adds 14 new partners to Advanced Air Mobility project’s National Campaign; urban air mobility

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Infrastructure partners for demonstrations: AURA Network Systems, Raytheon Company, Robust Analytics Inc., AURA was also chosen for additional communications, navigation, and surveillance flight testing activities. buildings in an urban environment) and associated mechanical turbulence. ARINC Incorporated, Avision Inc.,

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Perspective: A View Into the New GM

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I was able to spend 10 minutes driving a Saturn Aura sedan with an (HCCI) engine system. GM expects HCCI, when combined with enabling technologies like variable valve actuation and advanced electronic engine controls, to provide a 12-15% improvement in overall fuel economy while being more affordable than hybrid or diesel technologies.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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The Open Environment and How It Changed PARC started with a small nucleus—perhaps fewer than 20 people. And in the Xerox environment in ’76, all of a sudden you could create things and make lots of them.” and is currently manager of programming environments at Sun Microsystems in Mountain View. “Or

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