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Video Friday: Such a Showoff

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We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. student at Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute. Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics.

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This Rwandan Engineer is Learning How to Manage Humanitarian Projects

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Thanks to a scholarship from IEEE Smart Village , she is now getting that education through the master’s degree program in development practice from Regis University , in Denver. Her first event was the 2019 PowerAfrica Conference , held in Abuja, Nigeria. She also got involved in organizing conferences in Africa.

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USGS-led study finds that recent unusual snowpack declines in the Rockies may signal a fundamental shift from precipitation to temperature as dominant influence

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anthropogenic warming by decadal variability.Together these events. USGS scientists, with partners at the Universities of Arizona, Washington, Wyoming, and Western Ontario, led the study that evaluated the recent declines using snowpack reconstructions from 66 tree-ring chronologies, looking back 500 to more than 1,000 years.

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DARPA SubT Finals: Meet the Teams

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University of Nevada, Reno. University of California, Berkeley. Norwegian University for Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. We are fully excited about the potential we see developing and we are optimistic that this will be demonstrated in the Final Event! California State University Channel Islands. Oke Onwuka.

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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Bob Taylor, then at the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) , got interested in connecting computers, in part to save the organization money by getting the expensive computers it funded at universities and research organizations to share their resources over a packet-switched network. 1962 and Ph.D.

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Summer Update

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They join Founding Members from these cities: Arlington, TX, Baltimore, Boulder, Dallas, Denver, Fort Worth, Irvine, CA, Los Angeles, Memphis, Philadelphia, Seattle, San Francisco, and Wenatchee, WA. The event is Thursday, June 29th at 7:00pm at Town Lake Center , 721 Barton Springs Road. Keene, N.H., Santa Barbara, CA., Irvine, CA.,

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More Electric Cars in Las Vegas with Stan Hanel's Story on the RAR'ster. with EVJerr Back to Webblogging, Sunday, 13 September 2009

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Georg also enlisted the help of University of Iowa computer programmer/engineer Karen Pease. in planning overnight charging locations and events. This effort was led by Georg Kuhnke, who lives near Sacramento, California. He received volunteer support from Earl Cox, Geoff Kinsey, and Doug Korthof in Southern California.