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Street network patterns reveal global trend towards increasing urban sprawl

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New research from McGill University and the University of California, Santa Cruz has found that the local streets of the world’s cities are becoming less connected, a global trend that is driving urban sprawl and discouraging the use of public transportation. SNDi for streets added years 2000 to 2014.

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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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Getting More Students to Develop Tech That Benefits Society

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As it turns out, Estrin—whose parents are IEEE Fellows Gerald and Thelma Estrin—has a connection to von Neumann, a mathematician who made contributions to physics, computing, and game theory. In 1985 she joined the University of Southern California , in Los Angeles, as a computer science professor. The award is sponsored by IBM.

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Learn How the President-Elect Candidates Plan to Improve IEEE

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My leadership experience inside and outside of IEEE and my connections with multiple IEEE organizational units enables me to facilitate linking, partnering, and communicating across boundaries. He was granted two U.S. University of New Orleans for six years and an adjunct professor for two years. Naval Research Laboratory.

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Going with the talent flow

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Barnhart was responsible a range of clean energy legislation, including including statutes granting apartment renters and condominium owners the right to install electric charging stations in parking areas so long as they paid for the equipment and installation. EWEB gave us a $5000 grant to advertise this project,” LePage explained.

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This Clock Made Power Grids Possible

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The 60-hertz standard (or 50 hertz in most of the rest of the world) is taken for granted today, but in the early days of electrification—before the invention of the master station clock—the standard was seldom standard. The black hand is connected to a standard mechanical pendulum clock; the gold hand is driven by a synchronous motor.

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Justine Bateman's Fight Against Generative AI In Hollywood

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And at the bare minimum, granting your permission to even do that because I’m sure they’d like to not have to ask for permission and not have to pay anybody. And then what’s up on their television through internet connection, on Netflix or Amazon, whatever, is secondary. And that stopped in about 2000. You take one program.

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