Cars That Think
JULY 31, 2023
At the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics at Automation (ICRA) in London this past May, Raibert gave a keynote talk that discussed some of his specific goals, with an emphasis on developing practical, helpful capabilities in robots. This article appears in the August 2023 print issue as “5 Questions for Marc Raibert.”
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 10, 2022
Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. Flash memory became cheap and robust enough for consumer use by 1995. But Tan reasoned that “if the company just manufactured the player, it would not make a lot of money,” according to a 2005 article in the Straits Times.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 16, 2009
The 2 ºC maximal warming limit was cited at the UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm in 1972, and revisited several decades later, in 1995, by the Wissenschaftlicher Beirat Globale Unweltveränderungen (WGBU), Germany’s national advisory council on climate change. “We Source: WGBU. Click to enlarge. The >2 Degree Target.
Cars That Think
MARCH 11, 2023
AC Propulsion’s president, Tom Gage, explains the company’s vehicle-to-grid technology at a 2001 conference in Seattle. Then, as electricity entrepreneurs expanded power generation and transmission capacity, they faced the new problem of what to do with all the cheap off-peak, nighttime electricity they could now produce.
Green Car Congress
JULY 22, 2009
Green Car Congress attended the Renewable Energy Finance Forum - Wall Street (REFF-Wall Street) conference (23-24 June) sponsored by Euromoney Energy Events and the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE). Although not part of the conferences formal structure, the themes were addressed in the presentations and panel discussions.
Cars That Think
JULY 27, 2023
But my interest was really piqued a few months later when I attended a fascinating talk on Yugoslavian computing given by Vlado Vince at the HOPE hacker conference. An English translation of the article was published by No Starch Press in 2018 in PoC||GTFO Vol. Like many makers, I use a cheap and cheerful TL866-based ROM programmer.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 28, 2009
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