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California ARB and NOAA Collaborating in $20M Research on Interaction of Air Pollution and Climate Change; One Atmosphere Approach

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The California Air Resources Board (ARB) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are collaborating in the $20-million CalNex research project to examine the nexus between air pollution and climate change. How does Southern California compare and contrast with the San Francisco Bay Area? Click to enlarge.

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Former CEO of American Electric Power Dies at 94

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But Electro didn't act on his idea, so he left in 1957 to start his own venture, Holt Instrument Laboratories , in his hometown: Oconto, Wis. Holt supplied calibration and measurement systems used for NASA 's Apollo, Gemini, and Mercury programs, and the company's devices are still used today. Johnson served in the U.S.

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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

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Fuzzy theory is wrong, wrong, and pernicious,” said William Kahan, a highly regarded professor of computer sciences and mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley in 1975. As Zadeh was pretty much entrenched at Columbia, he surprised his colleagues when he packed up in 1959 and moved to the University of California at Berkeley.

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Nissan Leaf – Taking Reservations

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&# may recall it was a little more complicated than that… The first five states where the Leaf will be available are: California, Arizona, Tennessee, Oregon, and Washington. Read more about it in the San Jose Mercury News Article: Reservations for the all-electric Nissan Leaf start Tuesday. The Leaf has a range of 100 miles.

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A New Wildfire Watchdog

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The idea behind this motion event-triggered sensor isn't new. A hundred years ago, centimeter-scale tilt switches used a conductive blob of mercury rolling along a glass tube to close an electric circuit. The MEMS version, of course, is only a few millimeters in size, and instead of mercury, it uses a suspended block of silicon.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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We were fresh out of ideas for whatever chips the rest of the world might want us to do,” said Charpentier, “So we decided to produce state-of-the-art video and sound chips for the world’s next great video game.” They then packed as many of those ideas as they could into a predefined area of silicon. “Al At that point, you’re hung up.”

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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Small long-term evaluation program, including modeling of vehicle-to-grid building benefits and economics, begun with Southern California Edison, joined by EPRI, other utilities, US DOE. When Lutz first proposed creating an electric car in 2003, the idea "bombed" inside GM, he says. "I San Jose Mercury News ). Bloomberg News ).

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