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How MIT’s Muriel Medard Pioneered the Universal Decoder

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As the head of the network coding group at the university’s Research Laboratory for Electronics , the IEEE Fellow led a team that created a silicon chip that eliminates the need for custom decoding hardware to spot signal errors. After graduating, she joined the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1998 as an assistant professor.

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Radar Technology Pioneer Merrill Skolnik Dies at 94

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Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications , in 2000. While there, he taught a course on radar at Northeastern University , in Boston. in engineering from Johns Hopkins University , in Baltimore. He earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1945 from Northwestern University , in Evanston, Ill.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. But Trek 2000 hardly became a household name. This was granted to Amir Ban, Dov Moran, and Oron Ogdan in November 2000.

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Michigan State researchers propose SI-HCCI transition strategy for HCCI-capable SI engine

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Zhu (2014) “Model-Based Mode Transition Control Between SI and HCCI Combustion” ASME 2014 Dynamic Systems and Control Conference doi: 10.1115/DSCC2014-6148. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D: Journal of Automobile Engineering doi: 10.1177/0954407015583599. Shupeng Zhang and Guoming G. 1558,1569 doi: 10.1109/TCST.2012.2201719.

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Learn How the President-Elect Candidates Plan to Improve IEEE

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Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers ' Conference Program Committee and has published articles in several of the organization's journals. Coughlin is also the founder of the Storage Networking Industry Association 's Solid State Storage Initiative, the Storage Visions Conference , and the Creative Storage Conference.

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EU investing >€3M in research into ultra-efficient aero engines; ULTIMATE project

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at the ASME Turbo Expo 2016 conference this week in Seoul, South Korea. ​ Europe’s Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA 2050) outlines a 75% reduction in aviation CO 2 emissions to year 2050 relative to a year 2000 reference. The project is being presented in a paper (Grönstedt et al. )

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XG Sciences lands SBIR/STTR award to develop Si/graphene anodes for Li-ion batteries for EVs

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Current performance data from the company shows demonstrated specific capacity of 900 – 2000 mAh/g, with a 1 st cycle efficiency of 80+ %. In a poster presentation at the AABC 2012 conference, XG Sciences noted that its low-cost process for Si/graphene nanocomposite anode material uses the existing xGnP platelet production.

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