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7 Scholarships Exclusively for Women Studying Engineering

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The 2U Scholarship program is available only to students at George Washington University , American University , Syracuse University , Washington University in St. Louis , and the University of California, Berkeley. A chosen student receives $1,000. Awardees can receive up to $10,000 to use toward tuition.

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IEEE Honors Iconic Engineers

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CERF Google, LLC Reston, Va. ALLEN MEDAL Sponsor: IBM LYDIA KAVRAKI Rice University Houston “For foundational probabilistic algorithms and randomized search methods that have broad impact in robotic motion planning and computational biology.” IEEE MEDAL OF HONOR Sponsor: IEEE Foundation VINTON G. IEEE FRANCES E.

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How the Huawei Fight is Changing the Face of 5G

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Xu's latest comments came as the US dropped its extradition battle over Meng Wanzhou, Huawei's chief financial officer and daughter of the company's founder, who had been trapped in Canada for three years. The fifth member, Canada, has effectively done so , forcing its telecom companies there to seek other vendors. So the U.S.

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The Who, Where, and How of Regulating AI

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But China’s rule-makers have been moving the quickest to turn proposals into real rules, and countries including Brazil , Canada , and the United States are following behind. Meanwhile, Sundar Pichai , CEO of Google and its parent company, Alphabet, said recently that there will need to be “ global frameworks ” governing the use of AI.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. Xebec, Québec, Canada Reservoir Evaluation Tools Using Seismic Interferometry and Fiber Optic Sensors, $150,000. Novel chemical looping process for conversion of natural gas to pure hydrogen, $150,000 CanmetENERGY, Ottawa, Canada Glowink Inc., Combustion Research & Flow Technology Inc.,

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Materials Project releases trove of data to public; support for work on multivalent battery chemistries and electrolytes

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The Materials Project, a Google-like database of material properties aimed at accelerating innovation ( earlier post ), has released an enormous trove of data to the public, giving scientists working on batteries, fuel cells, photovoltaics, thermoelectrics, and other advanced materials a powerful tool to explore new avenues of research.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

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as well as 600 universities throughout the country. It later added Chicago’s 15,000 IGO car sharing service members and now operates on 130 college campuses, 40 government programs and has 300 business accounts in 35 states, Canada and the U.K. Investors in RelayRides included Google Ventures and GM Ventures.

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