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This USC Professor is Developing an Artificial Brain

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And Parker, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Southern California has delivered. She helped develop high-level (behavioral) synthesis, an automated computer design process that assists with the transformation of a behavioral description of hardware into a model of its logic and memory circuits.

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First minimal synthetic bacterial cell designed and constructed by scientists at Venter Institute and Synthetic Genomics; 473 genes

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SGI) have designed and constructed of the first minimal synthetic bacterial cell, JCVI-syn3.0. was developed through a design, build, and test process using genes from JCVI-syn1.0. The creation of the first synthetic cell in 2010 did not inform new genome design principles since the M. Hutchison, III, Ph.D. senior author J.

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Ukrainian Volunteers Use 3D Printers to Save Lives

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During COVID-19, companies, volunteers, universities, and concerned citizens (including me) began to create a system for networking. 3D Tech ADDtive Other volunteers also joined the modernization and implementation of computer-aided designs with publicly available 3D models for printing.

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Daimler Trucks NA SuperTruck achieves 115% freight efficiency improvement over 2009 baseline; 50.2% engine BTE

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Friction-reducing measures include a variable speed water pump, a clutched air compressor, low-viscosity oil and an improved cylinder kit. Together, the optimized tractor and trailer design achieved a 54% reduction in aerodynamic drag. Lightweighting: MSI-ACPT, Maxion Inmagusa, Oregon State University, Strick, Toray.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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Structured VLSI design, now taught in more than 100 universities. And unlike university research laboratories, PARC had one unifying vision: it would develop “the architecture of information.” Pake was executive vice chancellor, provost, and professor of physics at Washington University in St. Laser printers.

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MazdaB-2600 : a nice pickup conversion MazdaMiata : Bill Theeringer project Manx Dunebuggy : Scottsbuggy, bike, and Comutacars Maxion: Max HallsCommutamatic II leaning 3 wheeler MercuryCapri : Uve has a great EV design calculator on his page. (No No picturesof his car yet though.)