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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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High-fidelity ignition models to boost engine thermal efficiency, $720,000 Convergent Science Inc., Arlington, Texas Environmental Insights Explorer for Buildings, $750,000 Google, Mountian View, Calif. MetalTek International, Watertown, Wis. MetalTek International, Watertown, Wis. Madison, Wis. IsoTherm Inc.,

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Celebrating the Life of University of Texas Professor Mo-Shing Chen

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Mo-Shing Chen , a world-renowned power engineering educator and researcher, died on 1 May at the age of 91. The IEEE Fellow was a professor at the University of Texas at Arlington for more than 40 years. as a power engineer in Wulai. Chen created UTA’s first Ph.D. Chen created UTA’s first Ph.D.

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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After earning a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from City College of New York in 1960, Kahn had joined Bell Telephone Laboratories , working at its headquarters in Manhattan, where he helped to analyze the overall architecture and performance of the Bell telephone system. thesis involved signal processing.

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Semiconductor Lasers Hit Steel-Slicing Levels

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Photonic crystal lasers are attractive candidates for high-brightness lasers, but until now engineers haven’t been able to scale them up to deliver beams bright enough for practical metal cutting and processing. Susumu Noda That concept worked well enough for the 1 mm laser, but scaling it up to 3 mm required further ingenuity.

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The Do-or-Die Moments That Determined the Fate of the Internet

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Once Kahn found a venue for the demo—at the International Conference on Computer Communications (ICCC), to be held in Washington, D.C., In an effort to speed the expansion further, network advocates organized a demonstration at the International Conference on Computer Communications in Washington, D.C., in October 1972.

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DOE Selects 15 Projects Aimed at Secure CO2 Underground Storage

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The selected projects are described below: Advanced Resources International, Inc. Arlington, Va.) University of Texas at Austin (Austin, Texas) - In this project, researchers will complete simulations and experiments to establish proof-of-feasibility of a novel concept for assessing capillary trapping in reservoirs.

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