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MIT/CalTrans study finds pavement-vehicle interaction accounts for 1% of overall fuel consumption on California highways

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“While a passenger car wouldn’t achieve significant gas savings, road stiffness could make an enormous difference for 40-ton trucks, with up to 4 percent gas mileage savings,” said MIT professor of civil and environmental engineering Franz-Josef Ulm, faculty director of CSHub, in an interview with Engineering News-Record (ENR) magazine. “If

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NREL/Volvo study demonstrates approach to quantify automated vehicle fuel savings

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The study findings are detailed in a paper in the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine. Lindenberg (2019) “An Automated Vehicle Fuel Economy Benefits Evaluation Framework Using Real-World Travel and Traffic Data,” IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine doi: 10.1109/MITS.2019.2919537. 2019.2919537.

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Celebrating the Life of Columbia Professor Stephen Unger

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in EE from MIT in 1953 and 1957, respectively. He wrote several papers on ethics and technology, as well as computer science, and he penned articles for IEEE Technology and Society Magazine and The Institute. He went on to earn a master’s degree and Ph.D. He joined the technical staff at Bell Labs in Whippany, N.J.

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The Essential Vannevar Bush

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Born in 1890 in Massachusetts, he came to prominence as the nation’s top designer of computers while at MIT In the 1930s. Writing in his most famous essay, “ As We May Think ,” published in The Atlantic magazine in 1945, he envisioned that: “A library of a million volumes could be compressed into one end of a desk.”

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Ford showcasing vehicle-to-vehicle communication for crash avoidance; potential for leveraging WiFi and smartphones to extend quickly the number of participating vehicles

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MIT and smart intersections. Ford has an ongoing research partnership with MIT in a number of areas, including safety. One of MIT’s projects includes work on a “smart intersection” to reduce collisions. The vehicles could use the information to suggest a new route to the drivers.

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How E Ink Developed Full-Color e-Paper

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Its story began a decade earlier, in 1997, at the MIT Media Lab , when it was created by two students, J.D. Its resolution was simply too low and the colors not bright enough for people who were used to the high resolution of tablet computers or print magazines. From the very beginning, e-paper seemed magical.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

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Best known as a robotics researcher, academic, and entrepreneur, Brooks is also an authority on AI: he directed the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT until 2007, and held faculty positions at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford before that. There’s a few companies starting to do it now again. Brooks: Absolutely.

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