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MARCH 23, 2024

Companies like Salesforce have launched their own software sustainability initiatives , while the Green Software Foundation now comprises 64 member organizations, including tech giants Google , Intel , and Microsoft. Now, the Green Web Foundation is working toward the ambitious goal of a fossil-free Internet by 2030.

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MAY 14, 2013

Wheelz first introduced its service on college and university campuses throughout California before expanding to the urban centers of San Francisco and Los Angeles. RelayRides has raised more than $13 million in venture capital funding from investors including Google Ventures, August Capital, Shasta Ventures and General Motors Ventures.

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AUGUST 22, 2016

Three startups from the West Coast—Zendrive ( earlier post ), PolySync ( earlier post ) and Civil Maps ( earlier post )—will join TechLab at Mcity this fall, moving resources to develop their driverless vehicle technologies in Ann Arbor.

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JUNE 14, 2020

A new study from University of Illinois shows that speed reductions in São Paulo, Brazil, significantly reduced fatal accidents and increased travel times only minimally. The researchers spent nine months developing software that allowed them to analyze trip durations using data from Google Directions API. —Peter Christensen.

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OCTOBER 30, 2015

Researchers at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) have performed a preliminary analysis of the cumulative on-road safety record of self-driving vehicles for three of the ten companies that are currently approved for such vehicle testing in California (Google, Delphi, and Audi).

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OCTOBER 23, 2015

Potentially unsafe mental distractions for drivers can persist for as long as 27 seconds after dialing, changing music or sending a text using voice commands, according to a pair of new studies for the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety by University of Utah researchers. Google Now rated highly distracting (3.0,

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MAY 19, 2016

The partners and supporters of the Decarbonizing Transport Partners are: Aeromexico - Air Transport Action Group (ATAG) - Anheuser Busch InBev – Brisa Group – China Communications Constructions Company (CCCC) – Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (CER) – COSCO Group – European Conference of Transport Research Institutes (ECTRI) (..)

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Like their competitors IBM , Google , Honeywell , and D-Wave , both Chinese companies profess to be developing "full stack" quantum businesses, offering access to quantum computing through the cloud coupled with their own suite of algorithms, software, and consulting services. We can read a qubit.

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OCTOBER 4, 2022

Assistant Professor, University of Toronto. Interest in building such systems is welcome because Tesla and Elon Musk’s involvement in the problem brings attention, talent, and resources to the problem, setting in motion a flywheel of progress. Roboticist, Google Brain. Assistant Professor, Florida State University.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Karnowski recalled a vehicle-image project by Stanford University researcher Timnit Gebru that identified 22 million cars from Google Street View images, classifying them into more than 2,600 categories (such as make and model) and then correlating them with demographic data. So, where to find a larger, fine-grained vehicle dataset?

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APRIL 17, 2010

Areas of consideration include breakthroughs in climate change, water resource management, energy distribution & storage, clean energy, energy efficiency/use. Water Resource Management : watershed, sewage, conservation, desalination. The current open prize in this area is the Google Lunar X PRIZE (GLXP).

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DECEMBER 27, 2021

They analyzed the improvements of image classifiers and found that "to halve the error rate, you can expect to need more than 500 times the computational resources." Ng spoke about an AI system developed at Stanford University that could spot pneumonia in chest x-rays, even outperforming radiologists.

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JUNE 21, 2016

Texas A&M University will lead the Gulf Coast center—a region anchored in the chemical, oil and gas sectors—and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) will lead the Northeast center, where glass, ceramic and microelectronic manufacturing has a strong presence. LanzaTech; Materia; SEVA; TowerJazz; Small: Able Industrial Products Inc.;

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Cars That Think

MARCH 1, 2022

His “As We May Think” article, for the July 1945 issue of The Atlantic magazine, envisioned a desktop computer and a “web” of “associative trails” that no less than the founders of Google cite as the inspiration for today’s information science and the Internet. Compiled by G. Pascal Zachary.

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JUNE 7, 2017

Engineering researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and colleagues have. The study included co-authors from the University of Washington, University of British Columbia, Utrecht University, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Aclima and EDF. —Kyle Messier, a UT Austin postdoc and a co-author.

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JULY 10, 2019

Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. Ultra-Fast and - Thick Boriding of Geothermal Casing to Enhance Reliability, $150,000 Controlled Thermal Resources Inc., Arlington, Texas Environmental Insights Explorer for Buildings, $750,000 Google, Mountian View, Calif. Combustion Research & Flow Technology Inc., Pipersville, Pa.

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JUNE 26, 2007

Google.org to to Accelerate Plug-In Hybrid and Vehicle-to-Grid Technology Google.org , the philanthropic arm of Google Inc. In addition, Google Inc. At today’s event, Google teamed with PG&E to demonstrate the bi-directional flow of electricity between plug-ins and the electric grid. Here is part of the story.

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JUNE 10, 2016

The Materials Project, a Google-like database of material properties aimed at accelerating innovation ( earlier post ), has released an enormous trove of data to the public, giving scientists working on batteries, fuel cells, photovoltaics, thermoelectrics, and other advanced materials a powerful tool to explore new avenues of research.

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MARCH 31, 2023

as well as 600 universities throughout the country. Its car share program, Hertz on Demand, launched in December 2008 and grew to more than 1,000 vehicles, 85,000 members and more than 500 locations worldwide, including corporate fleets, airports, hotels, utilities, government, and universities. Zipcar’s potential is enormous.

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MAY 15, 2016

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have introduced a new method for identifying NO x emissions hotspots using high-fidelity Lagrangian vehicle data to explore spatial interactions that may influence emissions production. —Kotz et al. Kotz, David B. Kittelson, and William F. 6b00550.

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OCTOBER 25, 2023

Woods , whose fierce independence left him with few resources and helpful contacts, Latimer inserted himself into positions where he used his unrivaled experience and expertise to elevate others. A 70-year-old Latimer [in the foreground seated at the right side of the table] was photographed along with other Edison Pioneers in 1918.

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DECEMBER 10, 2022

In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. In April 1999, the Israeli company M-Systems filed a patent application titled “Architecture for a Universal Serial Bus-based PC flash disk.”

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DECEMBER 8, 2022

Can students draw from a wide range of programs in the business school and the university at large? Does the institution offer career services, job placement, coaching, networking, and other resources? Purdue is also among the country’s 10 most innovative universities , per U.S. Are there innovative course offerings?

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AUGUST 11, 2021

He's currently a senior research fellow at the University of Minnesota's Charles Babbage Institute , where he specializes in the history of technology. We're back with my guest Jim Cortada, a senior research fellow at the University of Minnesota's Charles Babbage Institute and author of a comprehensive corporate history of IBM.

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OCTOBER 28, 2021

He has a 34-year career as a journalist, advertiser, marketer, publicist, event planner, teacher, and fundraiser for-profit and not-for-profit organizations including Motorola, Business Marketing Association, and Michigan State University. He has served on boards, consulted with associations, and written business plans.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Now, Frontex is refocusing its resources from shipboard patrols to aerial and remote sensing, according to its. Dan Fisher of the University of Glasgow, who has published on SIVE. funded research project published the results of using Google search data to predict international migration. percent to €543 million in 2021.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

He has a 34-year career as a journalist, advertiser, marketer, publicist, event planner, teacher, and fundraiser for-profit and not-for-profit organizations including Motorola, Business Marketing Association, and Michigan State University. He has served on boards, consulted with associations, and written business plans.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

New research by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Carnegie Mellon University, SRI International and the University of Colorado at Boulder shows that drone-based delivery could reduce greenhouse gas emissions and energy use in the transportation sector. An open-access paper on the research appears in Nature Communications.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Some years ago I did a talk at a local university on cybersecurity, titled “ Cyber and Information Security: Have We All Gone Mad? ” Even companies with near-infinite resources (like Apple and Google) made trivial “worst practice” security mistakes that put their customers in danger. Incidentally, the E.U.’s We don’t even know.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Stanford University scientists have identified a new solid-state Li-ion electrolyte predicted to exhibit simultaneously fast ionic conductivity, wide electrochemical stability, low cost, and low mass density. Other co-authors are Ekin Cubuk at Google Brain, and Brian Francisco and Josh Buettner-Garret at Solid Power, Inc.

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MAY 6, 2019

In their commentary, Andreas Goldthau (Royal Holloway University of London), Kirsten Westphal (German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP)), Morgan Bazilian (Colorado School of Mines) & Michael Bradshaw (University of Warwick) present four geopolitical scenarios to illustrate how varied the transition could be by 2030.

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AUGUST 23, 2023

Before we launch into this episode, I’d like to let listeners know that the cost of membership in the IEEE is currently 50 percent off for the rest of the year, giving you access to perks, including Spectrum Magazine and lots of education and career resources. The heads of OpenAI and Google have both openly discussed the need for regulations.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Today's neural networks also learn parameter values, but those parameters are part of such flexible computer models that—if they are big enough—they become universal function approximators, meaning they can fit any type of data. To halve the error rate, you can expect to need more than 500 times the computational resources.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

In the UAE, drones have also helped map the entire country’s agricultural resources in a matter of days, which would not have been practical using physical surveys alone. 5 In another effort, UAE teams used drones to plant 6.25 million trees in only two days. 6 Scaling Secure Autonomous Systems.

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MARCH 1, 2023

I’m using a word processor with the core features and functions of Microsoft Word, Google Docs, or LibreOffice’s Writer, along with an email client that could be mistaken for a simplified version of Apple Mail, Microsoft Outlook, or Mozilla Thunderbird. The many simultaneous users of one such computer shared the system as a common resource.

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JANUARY 9, 2024

In 2023, our labs at Google and the University of California, Berkeley came together with 32 other robotics laboratories in North America, Europe, and Asia to undertake the RT-X project , with the goal of assembling data, resources, and code to make general-purpose robots a reality. We decided to give it a try.

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AUGUST 28, 2017

Arizona-based startup Local Motors has unveiled Olli ( earlier post ), a 12-passenger minibus that may hit university campuses in Las Vegas and Miami later this year. From a mathematical perspective, buses take up less space, use fewer resources and accommodate a greater number of passengers. The benefits of autonomous buses.

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