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Sun Catalytix Signs $4M ARPA-E Contract and Forms Scientific Advisory Board; Affordable Catalysts for Water Splitting

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The SAB is chaired by John Deutch, Institute Professor at MIT, whose government experience includes service as Director of Energy Research and Undersecretary of the Department of Energy, and Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology. Earlier post.). —John Deutch.

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Video Friday: Strandbeest

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During the summer I do all kinds of experiments with the wind, sand and water. Strandbeest ] MIT CSAIL scientists created an algorithm to solve one of the hardest tasks in computer vision: assigning a label to every pixel in the world, without human supervision. Wood from Harvard University. Good luck STEGO! [

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DOE announces $11.5M in Phase 1 funding for carbon capture and storage program; ARPA-E FLECCS

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The post-combustion outlet gas is more easily separated into water and CO 2 to the pipeline, thereby lowering the electricity costs of grids with high levels of VRE. Colorado State University. University of Pittsburgh. The proposed technology easily separates the CO 2 and H 2 O in the flue gas of an oxy-combustor.

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Exascale Computing Project (ECP) announces $39.8M in first-round application development awards

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Exascale Lattice Gauge Theory Opportunities and Requirements for Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Paul Mackenzie (FNAL) with BNL, TJNAF, Boston University, Columbia University, University of Utah, Indiana University, UIUC, Stony Brook, College of William & Mary.

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This Fusion Reactor Is Held Together With Tape

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Gretchen Ertl/CFS/MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center CFS, a startup spun out of decades of research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is among the leaders of a new wave of fusion-energy projects that have emerged in the past decade, taking advantage of technological advances as well as a surge in private-sector investment.

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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

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Fuzzy theory is wrong, wrong, and pernicious,” said William Kahan, a highly regarded professor of computer sciences and mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley in 1975. Kalman in 1972, who is now a professor at Florida State University in Tallahassee. The denunciations were sometimes extreme. But Zadeh never wavered.

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DOE investing $120M over 5 years in Energy Innovation Hub for Critical Materials Research

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Universities, national laboratories, nonprofit organizations, and private firms are eligible to compete and are encouraged to form partnerships when submitting their proposals. These critical materials are also at risk for supply disruptions. The award selection is expected this fall.

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