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Prominent Universities Sign Open Access Agreements with IEEE

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The University of California and the Conference of Italian University Rectors (a consortium of state and non-state universities known as the CRUI) each recently signed what’s known as a read-and-publish agreement with IEEE. In such arrangements, the APCs are paid for by the organizations where the researchers work or study.

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Researchers propose fire-preventing "anti-short layer" for EV batteries

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Researchers at Nanyang Technological University Singapore (NTU Singapore) have proposed a new way to prevent fires in lithium-ion batteries.

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Elon Musk makes it to TIME Magazine’s list of 100 Most Influential People in AI

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has made it to TIME Magazine’s list of 100 most influential people in the field of artificial intelligence, aptly dubbed the TIME100 AI. Similar to other Musk companies, xAI has very ambitious targets, with the company aiming to “understand the true nature of the universe.”

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Kicking It With Robots

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On page 40 of this issue, Peter Stone—past president of the RoboCup Federation, professor in the computer science department of the University of Texas at Austin, and executive director of Sony AI America—captures some of that unbridled enthusiasm and gives us the history of the event.

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Video Friday: Robots for Humanity

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An overview of ongoing work by Hello Robot, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the University of Washington, and Robots for Humanity to empower Henry Evans’s independence through the use of the mobile manipulator Stretch. And of course, you can read more about this project in this month’s issue of IEEE Spectrum magazine.

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Remembering Ross Stone, an Influential Leader of IEEE Technical Activities

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Communications and patent law expert Stone received a bachelor’s degree in 1967 in earth sciences from the University of California, San Diego. He was an adjunct professor at Beijing Jiaotong University and the Politecnico di Torino. He worked as chief scientist at McDonnell Technologies and a research advisor at IRT.

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Daimler receives Porsche Prize for diesel aftertreatment system in OM 654

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The Professor Ferdinand Porsche Prize was awarded by Vienna University of Technology to Anke Kleinschmit, Head of Corporate Research & Sustainability and Environmental Officer for Daimler AG, for the development of the innovative exhaust gas aftertreatment system in the new OM 654 four-cylinder diesel engine ( earlier post ).

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