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Celebrating the Life of University of Texas Professor Mo-Shing Chen

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The IEEE Fellow was a professor at the University of Texas at Arlington for more than 40 years. He founded the university’s Energy Systems Research Center in 1968 and served as its director until he retired in 2003. The attendees came from more than 750 universities and companies worldwide. Chen created UTA’s first Ph.D.

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Ben-Gurion Univ. researchers data-mining geosocial networks to identify road safety issues and high frequency accident locations

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Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers are showing that data culled from geosocial networks such as the GPS traffic app Waze can help prevent traffic incidents with better deployment of police resources at the most accident-prone areas. —BGU researcher and Ph.D. student Michael Fire.

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Haomo's self-driving ambitions leap forward with launch of DriveGPT

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DriveGPT is the first generative large model for autonomous driving that will reshape the technological path to automotive intelligence, the Beijing-based company announced today at its 8th Haomo AI Day event. Separately, Haomo chairman Zhang Kai said at today's event that in addition to the new Mocha DHT-PHEV, the second HPilot 3.0-equipped

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Renault opens Innovation Lab in Paris to focus on future of mobility

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The establishment of Open Innovation Labs forms part of the culture and innovation strategy of the Renault-Nissan Alliance: they enable opportunities for innovation to be cultivated on the basis of an open ecosystem (startups, universities, investors) and the local economy (local authorities, community organisations, customers, the market).

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Study finds increased air pollution can worsen both drought and flooding

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Zhanqing Li (lead author), Feng Niu and Yanni Ding of the University of Maryland; Jiwen Fan of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Yangang Liu of Brookhaven National Laboratory; and Prof. Daniel Rosenfeld of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Aerosols alter cloud density and the radiative balance of the atmosphere. —Li et al.

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EP29LPSP: Applications in Plasma Physics, Astronomy, and Highway Engineering

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00, WP1995, Revision 0, Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory, 19 Mar. Dissertation, Princeton University, 2013. Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel. flare.pppl.gov/Construction/FLARE%20FCSpec-03%2019Mar15.pdf. 2 Lee, David, et al. Properties of optical fibres at cryogenic temperatures. 5 Xu, Jingke.

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Nvidia’s CTO on the Future of High-Performance Computing

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but Kagan works out of the company’s office in Israel. At Mellanox, based in Yokneam Illit, Israel, Kagan had overseen the development of high-performance networking for computing and storage in cloud data centers. After he graduated high school in 1975, his family moved to Israel. Nvidia is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif.,

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