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DOE awards Virginia Tech $3M for EV charging cybersecurity project

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded Virginia Tech a $3 million grant for research on electric vehicle charging infrastructure cybersecurity as part of a larger $80 million investment by the department on advanced technologies research ( earlier post ). —Jonathan Petit, senior director of research at OnBoard Security.

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IEEE’s Honor Society Gave This Boston University Student Tools to Succeed

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As a member of the Kappa Sigma chapter at Boston University , he learned leadership and communications skills while accepting different roles. One of his favorite activities, he says, has been building a sense of community among the honor society’s members. My vote counted just the same as theirs. “I

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Building Human-Robot Relationships Through Music and Dance

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According to the researchers, the FOREST robots and accompanying musical robots are not rigid mimickers of human melody and movement; rather, they exhibit a remarkable level of emotional expression and human-like gesture fluency–what the researchers call “emotional prosody and gesture” to project emotions and build trust.

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5 Ways the Chip Shortage Is Rewiring Tech

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Yuh-Jier Mii, R&D chief at the world’s largest contract chip manufacturer, TSMC, recently told Spectrum he personally believes it will take two to three years to get enough new fabrication facilities online to adequately address the shortfall. The end, unfortunately, is not near. In the past, design was separate from procurement.

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Virginia Tech hosting debut student competition to design 3-D printed aircraft, ground vehicles

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Virginia Tech will host a university-wide competition for students to design on-demand, remote-controlled 3-D printed aircraft and ground vehicles. Undergraduate and graduate students, individually or in groups, are invited to participate from across the university, no matter their course of study.

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A World-Class Tech MBA on Your Own Schedule

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in person, hybrid, or online) match the student’s needs? Can students draw from a wide range of programs in the business school and the university at large? And the answer was, ‘Yes.’’’ Purdue University is one of the country’s and the world’s best STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) schools. Curriculum.

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Tech Leaders on 5G, Robots, and the Future of Work

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What are today’s tech leaders concerned about? Trying to maintain strong cybersecurity for a hybrid workforce and protecting their systems from cyberattacks as more and more employees’ personal devices have been connected to the company’s systems. The tech leaders also are trying to find enough technologists to fill job openings.

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