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Paying Tribute to Former IEEE President Richard Gowen

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He was granted his first U.S. It gave the research team "the ability to evaluate the movement of fluids on the cardiovascular system," Gowen wrote in an article about the research on the Engineering Technology and History Wiki. For his doctoral research, he developed an engineering model of the cardiovascular system.

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Celebrating the Life of Columbia Professor Stephen Unger

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He wrote several papers on ethics and technology, as well as computer science, and he penned articles for IEEE Technology and Society Magazine and The Institute. In 1982 the committee was granted society status as the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology. Unger served as its vice chairman in 1980.

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Lotus and Harmon partner up to add sound to hybrids

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Exclusive rights are granted to Harman Becker to manufacture the latest technology solutions for the worldwide vehicle OEM market. on CO 2 vehicle standards could reduce the price of oil mdf on Environmental Transport Association blasts proposed car scrapping scheme in UK Jeff Grant on Nissan adds flex-fuel version of the Versa.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

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The Breeze got their own headline wrong since Bradley isn’t a “Torrance man&# he lives in Rancho Palos Verdes where his business is based, as it says in paragraph five of their article, but you’ve got to cut them some slack because their legacy ship is sinking. It’s part of my tribute to him. Pass it on.

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Chrysler unveils new electric minivan for the US Postal Service

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Department of Energys Transportation Electrification stimulus program for a federal grant that would enable a nationwide demonstration fleet with the United States Postal Service (USPS) * Potential partnership with USPS to include infrastructure support from ConEd, Duke Energy, DTE Energy and Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) Washington, D.C.,

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Remembering Data Compression Pioneer Jacob Ziv

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With lossless algorithms, as an IEEE Spectrum article explained in 2021, “bits disappear, making the data file dramatically smaller and thus easier to store and transmit,” but unlike lossy compression techniques such as the ones used with JPEG and MP3 files, the bits “reappear on command.”

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Greenlings: Benefits of charging stations vs. battery swaps vs. home charging

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The biggest problem with recharging at home - as already alluded to in the article, is that electric cars are mostly marketed as city vehicles. Drive in, drop the underslung pack, hydraulically uplift a fresh pack, drive out. I would prefer to recharge at home, and could do so. That is the compact territory to which they are best suited.