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Feds Offer Free Chargers

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The first nine communities to participate are: Sacramento, Los Angeles the San Francisco Bay-San Jose area, New York City, Orlando, Austin, Detroit, Washington and Redmond, Wash. Read more in the article: Get in Line for 4,600 Free Electric Car Battery Chargers. By Jim Motavalli for the New York Times. A $2,000 value!).

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Nissan Leaf – Taking Reservations

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Funny that this article cites “a shortage of public charging stations&# as the sole reason for auto makers scrapping electric vehicles in the 1990s. Read more about it in the San Jose Mercury News Article: Reservations for the all-electric Nissan Leaf start Tuesday. By Dana Hull for the San Jose Mercury News.

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IEEE Power & Energy Society President Dies at 69

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Williams joined IBM in San Jose, Calif., He left in 1985 to join the Rand Afrikaans University, now part of the University of Johannesburg. Ferreira authored or coauthored 130 journal and transactions articles and more than 400 conference papers. Mason Lamar Williams III. Codeveloper of the Williams-Comstock formula.

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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

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Alamouti, who has won this year’s Marconi Prize , says he believes part of the solution is to decentralize the cloud—which would help bring about a more open Internet and eventually allow consumers to choose what data of theirs they want to sell. He says IEEE was the first to publish his articles. Wireless innovator. in Burnaby.

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Learn How the President-Elect Candidates Plan to Improve IEEE

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Coughlin is founder and president of Coughlin Associates in San Jose, Calif., Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers ' Conference Program Committee and has published articles in several of the organization's journals. Coughlin , Life Senior Member Francis Grosz , Life Fellow Saifur Rahman , and Fellow S.K.

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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

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This article was first published as “Lotfi A. He was born in 1921 in Azerbaijan, then part of the Soviet Union, and moved to Iran at age 10. Favorite periodicals Four newspapers daily ( The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, The Wall St. It appeared in the June 1995 issue of IEEE Spectrum.

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The Unsung Inventor Who Chased the LED Rainbow

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San Jose, Calif. This article was first published as “M. Direct semiconductors are usually better than indirect for LEDs, Craford explained, but the indirect type still has to be used because of band gaps wide enough to give off light in the green, yellow, and orange part of the spectrum. Appearances are deceiving.