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6 Podcasts About the Joys and Perils of the Great Outdoors

Baua Electric

Starter episode: “The Worst Black Bear Attack in History: Part 1” Matt Pycroft, a filmmaker who specializes in documenting far-flung and hostile outdoor locations, delivers interviews with guests who share his thirst for exploration.

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Get to Know the IEEE Board of Directors

Cars That Think

Believing that young generations have the responsibility, ability, and freedom to shape our future, Metra is focused on making IEEE an inclusive community through which all its members can find the knowledge and networking opportunities to foster their professional and personal growth.

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This Engineer’s Job Is to Keep Arkansas Nuclear One Safe

Cars That Think

She was inspired by her parents, who worked in biology, and by her reading of physics journals and engineering and science magazines. I was amazed at the safety precautions the company takes, especially for the employees’ personal safety,” she says. Ansari entered the field of power engineering during her final semester as a Ph.D.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

Cars That Think

It would have been quite different had Warnock and company not been in the right place at the right time to meet the right person. The time was right because of the imminence of three hardware developments: the first low-cost, bit-mapped personal computer, the first low-cost laser printer, and a decline in price of high-density memory chips.

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Why Bloat Is Still Software’s Biggest Vulnerability

Cars That Think

In 1995 he wrote an influential article called “ A Plea for Lean Software ,” published in Computer , the magazine for members of the IEEE Computer Society, which I read early in my career as an entrepreneur and software developer. A version of this post was originally published on my personal blog, Berthub.eu. Software has gotten huge.

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A Small Startup Fights Rare Diseases With Big Data

Cars That Think

It's buried deep in documents like PubMed articles and patent filings. Deep Learning can help researchers pull that data out of those documents. And of course, I'm referring to things like scientific papers, PDF documents. At least, that's the strategy of a startup called Vyasa.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

I just read the article in the June/July issue of Homepower magazine written by two firemen who have solar panels on their roofs. FROM HOMEPOWER MAGAZINE written by Fire engineer Matthew Paiss: Access, pathways, and smoke-ventilation space: Providing a 3-foot setback from the edges of the roofline.

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