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Celebrating the Life of Columbia Professor Stephen Unger

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From Bell Labs to Columbia Unger received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1952 from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, New York, now the New York University Tandon School of Engineering. in EE from MIT in 1953 and 1957, respectively. He went on to earn a master’s degree and Ph.D.

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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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PHEVLERs are the Zero CO2 Clean Green Machines of the Future

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Frank (email: afrank@efficientdrivetrains.com) Dr. Frank is Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he established the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), and was director of the US Department of Energy’s National Center of Hybrid Excellence at UC Davis.

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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. Michele Weigle, Old Dominion University, 2008). Standards: WAVE / DSRC / 802.11p (Dr.

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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. Electronic-ink researchers had been pursuing color e-paper for years, as had other researchers around the world, in universities, corporate research labs, and startups. From the very beginning, e-paper seemed magical.

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AI Experts Speak: Memorable Quotes from Spectrum's AI Coverage

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IEEE Spectrum 's October 2021 special issue on artificial intelligence, you may have noticed provocative quotes scattered throughout the magazine's pages. Dig into every industry, and you'll find AI changing the nature of work.” — DANIELA RUS , director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. If you've seen.

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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

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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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