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ARPA-E to present on path to solid-state battery commercialization at 13th Annual Lithium Battery Materials & Chemistries conference

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At the upcoming 13 th Annual Lithium Battery Materials & Chemistries conference, Sue Babinec, Senior Commercialization Advisor, ARPA-E will present the agency’s view on research and commercialization of these technologies, including economic estimates.

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UC San Diego hires top robotics expert to lead Contextual Robotics Institute

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Christensen is a leader in the setting of national policy for the field of robotics and has testified before Congress on the subject. In addition to the 300+ journal articles and conference papers, Christensen has published more than 30 book chapters and at least 15 books (as editor or co-editor).

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Eugene H. Spafford: Malware Nemesis

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I did a lot of reading and studying on where computers might be used and where they could go wrong, as well as reading science-fiction books that explored those possibilities,” he says. He wrote a conference paper, The Internet Worm Incident , in 1989 to capture what had happened and the lessons learned.

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Ballard terminates two fuel-cell license agreements with Azure in China; will not hit 2014 revenue and EBITDA targets

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The Company will not book any revenue under these contracts in 2014 Q4 and expects to record an impairment of approximately $4.5 Ballard will provide further details on its conference call in late February when it will be discussing its 2014 audited financial statements and 2015 outlook.

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Integrating traffic simulation and propulsion modeling to estimate EV range for drivers

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A paper on their work, initially presented at the SIMULTECH 2011 conference in Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, is newly published in the book Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications.

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Maersk Line CEO calls for major changes in shipping industry; reliability, ease of business, environmental excellence

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Maersk Line CEO Eivind Kolding called for major changes in the shipping industry during the keynote address to the container shipping and logistics industry at the TOC conference in Antwerp, Belgium. Why shouldn’t we make it easier and give customers instant prices and instant confirmation of their booking? —Eivind Kolding.

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Volvo Car Corporation intends to lead in field of autonomous driving technology; targeting the next-generation of consumers

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Autonomous driving—the self-driving car—gives the human driver the ability safely to do something else besides drive, such as sending text messages or reading a book while the car drives itself. But being in a car that drives by itself while the driver reads a book is still quite a revolutionary thought for many people.