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Inventor of the First AI System That Could Read Handwriting Dies at 72

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in computer and information science in 1976 from Ohio State University , in Columbus. Ishii was honored with several awards including the 2000 IEEE Millennium Medal , the 1984 IEEE Centennial Medal , and the 1969 T.C. Srihari went on to earn a Ph.D. Former head of Mitre’s space surveillance systems. Member, 91; died 24 March.

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Study: Reducing Future Transportation CO2 Emissions to Kyoto Protocol Levels Will Require Combination of Vehicle Technology and Smart Growth

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Percent change in median CO2 by scenario relative to 2000. This scenario assumes that 100% of the study region’s vehicle fleet will be HEVs by 2050—half of which will be grid plug-in HEVs—but that the fleet will otherwise remain unchanged from 2000 in terms of its relative composition of different vehicle size classes. Stone et al.

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You Haven’t Seen Blue Until You’ve Seen San Andres

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Although it is believed that the Dutch and Christopher Columbus landed on the archipelago, it was the British who settled San Andres around 1630. In 2000, the U.N. We were technically in Colombia, but Mr. James spoke in clipped English — his accent itself a nod to the island’s history.

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DOE Awarding $620M for Smart Grid Demonstration and Energy Storage Projects

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Smart grid regional demonstrations involving plug-in vehicles include (ranked by DOE funding): Columbus Southern Power Company (doing business as AEP Ohio). The selected projects include advanced battery systems (including flow batteries), flywheels, and compressed air energy systems. 16,080,554. Seeo, Inc (CA).