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This Idea Wasn't All Wet: The Sensing Water-Saving Shower Head Debuts

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In 2012, with California in the midst of a severe drought, Schneider, then a mechanical engineering graduate student at Stanford University , once again tossed out a “cool idea.” He imagined a shower head that would sense when the person showering moved out from under the stream of water.

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Four Startups Aim to Change the Climate Tech Game

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That’s what John Hennessy, Stanford professor (and former president) and chairman of Alphabet , told attendees at the Stanford Global Energy Forum , held in-person this month on the Stanford University campus. There are 2.6 million idle wells, Gregory continued, “with an average depth 5000 feet.”

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Al Muratsuchi Votes To Kill Community Choice Then Finds Out He Was Duped & Calls Me To Apologize

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Assemblyman Al Muratsuchi, representing the 66th District in California explains as State Controller, John Chiang listens at the Lunquist Mansion on the Palos Verdes Peninsula during a recent fundraiser (photo by Joe Galliani). You and me and our communities had already been f *d over by the California Assemby 51-15.

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Car Crash Prevention System Wins Student $10,000 IEEE Scholarship

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In fact, the very idea of it seeming impossible is what motivated him to pursue the project, he says. I'm a very competitive person," he says, "so I was motivated to try and disprove these articles and actually build this device.". Rip currents are dangerous phenomena that can pull swimmers into deep water. Brian Minnick.

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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 a child, Zadeh was surrounded by governesses and tutors, while as a young adult, he had a personal servant. That idea came in July 1964.

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This Implant Turns Brain Waves Into Words

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A computer screen shows the question “Would you like some water?” my research group ’s clinical trial at the University of California, San Francisco in hopes of pioneering a faster method. It was the first time a paralyzed person who couldn’t speak had used neurotechnology to broadcast whole words—not just letters—from the brain.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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The idea that a researcher should program computer systems interactively was anathema to them. 1962, Stanford University, California, all in electrical engineering First job Planting cabbages First electronics job Technician, General Railway Signal Co., They were rather hostile to the idea,” he recalled, for several reasons.

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