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DOE awards Virginia Tech $3M for EV charging cybersecurity project

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded Virginia Tech a $3 million grant for research on electric vehicle charging infrastructure cybersecurity as part of a larger $80 million investment by the department on advanced technologies research ( earlier post ). —Jonathan Petit, senior director of research at OnBoard Security.

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University of Michigan launches new program to accelerate advanced transportation technologies

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A new program at the University of Michigan will award funds for researchers to accelerate advanced transportation technologies. The committee includes advanced transportation business and market experts, venture capitalists and university leaders. Hamid Servati, president, Servo Tech Engineering.

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IEEE’s Honor Society Gave This Boston University Student Tools to Succeed

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As a member of the Kappa Sigma chapter at Boston University , he learned leadership and communications skills while accepting different roles. He spent his summer this year as a graduate research intern at the Georgia Tech Research Institute, in Atlanta. program and even personal advice such as managing a work-life balance.”

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5 Ways the Chip Shortage Is Rewiring Tech

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Yuh-Jier Mii, R&D chief at the world’s largest contract chip manufacturer, TSMC, recently told Spectrum he personally believes it will take two to three years to get enough new fabrication facilities online to adequately address the shortfall. The end, unfortunately, is not near. In the past, design was separate from procurement.

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Can Deepfake Tech Train Computer Vision AIs?

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“Their method uses a contrastive objective that pushes the model to produce a presentation that’s similar for different views of the same object,” says Anna Rumshisky , a computer scientist at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. MIT Synthetic data has some advantages over traditional datasets, the researchers note.

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Virginia Tech hosting debut student competition to design 3-D printed aircraft, ground vehicles

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Virginia Tech will host a university-wide competition for students to design on-demand, remote-controlled 3-D printed aircraft and ground vehicles. Undergraduate and graduate students, individually or in groups, are invited to participate from across the university, no matter their course of study.

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Tech Leaders on 5G, Robots, and the Future of Work

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What are today’s tech leaders concerned about? Trying to maintain strong cybersecurity for a hybrid workforce and protecting their systems from cyberattacks as more and more employees’ personal devices have been connected to the company’s systems. The tech leaders also are trying to find enough technologists to fill job openings.

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