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Jaguar Land Rover and EPSRC announce $17M autonomous vehicle research program; 5 projects selected

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The research will take place at ten UK universities and the Transport Research Laboratory. As part of its strategic partnership with Jaguar Land Rover, EPSRC issued a joint call for research proposals that focussed on developing fully autonomous cars: “ Towards Autonomy - Smart and Connected Control ”.

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Leading the Way for More LGBTQ Inclusivity in STEM

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Agrawal found solace in advocacy and support organizations in London after moving there in 2005. She went on to form her own groups and lead diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts at the universities she worked for in London and Sydney. It provides women of color a safe space to connect with each other.

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Tomorrow’s AI Will Reason Like Humans, IBM Watson Developer Predicts

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for 33 years before he joined Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., I was very happy and thankful that I got an award that honors a person I knew very well," Nahamoo says. He left England to pursue a doctorate in electrical, electronics, and communications engineering at Purdue University , in West Lafayette, Ind.

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Why EVs Aren't a Climate Change Panacea

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There are two major reasons for this: first, EVs are not going to reach the numbers required by 2050 to hit their needed contribution to net zero goals , and even if they did, a host of other personal, social and economic activities must be modified to reach the total net zero mark. For example, researchers at University of Oxford in the U.K.

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Meet Mr. Internet: Vint Cerf

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For the past three months, Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn had been working together on a problem Kahn had been pondering for some time: how to connect ground-based military computers seamlessly to communications satellites and mobile radios. The first real-world test came in 1975, connecting Stanford to BBN in Cambridge, Mass., universities.

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This Nigerian Startup’s Minigrid Began as a School Project

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After he graduated from the Federal University of Technology in Owerri, Nigeria, his plan was to get a high-paying job at one of the multinational oil and gas companies based in the country. To a large extent, I wouldn’t be the person I am today if not for the support from the IEEE and IEEE Foundation.”

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

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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. He is a robotics and automation expert at Salford University , in England. What are today’s tech leaders concerned about?

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