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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

Cars That Think

Census, the mainframe computer, legitimizing the person computer, and developing the software that beat the best in the world at chess and then Jeopardy. Joining me to talk about it—and IBM's other pivots, past and future—is a person uniquely qualified to do so. Steven Cherry Jim, IBM wasn't the first to personal computers.

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The Business of Plugging In: Building the Full Ecosystem for a Successful Plug-in Vehicle Industry in the US

Green Car Congress

The conference was sold out; it was also essentially a PowerPoint-free zone; the basic format relied heavily on brief introductory remarks from sets of speakers representing the diverse stakeholders, followed by questions from attendees. Customers and customer reaction were also a recurrent theme at the conference. —Jon Lauckner.

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Andrew Ng: Unbiggen AI

Cars That Think

I think there’s lots of signal to still be exploited in video: We have not been able to build foundation models yet for video because of compute bandwidth and the cost of processing video, as opposed to tokenized text. One very senior person pulled me aside and warned me that starting Google Brain would be bad for my career.

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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

Green Car Congress

Green Car Congress attended the Renewable Energy Finance Forum - Wall Street (REFF-Wall Street) conference (23-24 June) sponsored by Euromoney Energy Events and the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE). Although not part of the conferences formal structure, the themes were addressed in the presentations and panel discussions.

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EAA National Board nominations from across North America

Electric Auto Association

I have talked about the total cost of ownership for EVs compared with both hybrid and traditional ICE vehicles. Personally meeting Sandy Munro to exchange ideas of the future of BEVs. In my conversations, I focus primarily on the overall total cost of ownership and I have encouraged some friends to convert.

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The Cold War Arms Race Over Prosthetic Arms

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Wiener’s bad luck turned into fruitful conversations with his orthopedic surgeon, Melvin Glimcher. After many design iterations and improvements, the Boston Arm debuted in 1968 at a press conference at Massachusetts General Hospital. Cost was one major hurdle. Why wasn’t it more widely adopted?

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Gallium Nitride and Silicon Carbide Fight for Green Tech Domination

Cars That Think

This conversion happens in your phone’s or laptop’s wall charger, in the much larger chargers and inverters that power electric vehicles, and elsewhere. Why Power Conversion Matters in Climate Calculations Before we get to the semiconductors themselves, let’s first consider why we need them.

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