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Remembering Former IEEE President Ken Laker

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In 2000 he helped found DFT, which manufactured test equipment for high-speed semiconductor interfaces. He later was named chair of the new IEEE Electronic Services Steering Committee, which oversaw the purchase of computers for all IEEE Board members to digitize thousands of IEEE documents. He served as its CEO for two years.

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Orbital suing Daimler and Bosch for alleged patent infringement on direct injection technology

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Australia-based specialized engine and vehicle systems company Orbital Corporation has filed court documents in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia alleging the infringement of Orbital patents on direct injection technology by Daimler AG, Mercedes-Benz USA LLC, Mercedes-Benz US International, Inc. Earlier post.).

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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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Air pollution regulations over last decade in Chinese city has halved health costs

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The study is the first to document the health and economic benefits of policies to reduce the burden of air pollution in a highly polluted area of China, and provides a model to measure how policies to improve air quality can protect human health. Results appear in an open access paper in the journal Environment International.

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Arizona State University Professor’s Work to Stabilize the Grid Pays Off

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The award was “a welcome surprise,” he says, though “we thought the document turned out very well.” He and others from the PES power system dynamic performance committee and the CIGRE Council of Large Systems’ study committee formed a task force in 2016 to update the 2004 document.

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Saab Automobile enters agreement with Hawtai Motor Group on strategic partnership

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million) convertible loan, subject to definitive transaction documentation and certain conditions. The transactions are subject to agreement on definitive transaction documents and certain conditions, which include consents from certain Chinese governmental agencies, the European Investment Bank and the Swedish National Debt Office.

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EPA Grants E15 Waiver for MY 2007 and Newer Light Duty Vehicles

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However, no waiver is being granted this year for E15 use in model year 2000 and older cars and light trucks—or in any motorcycles, heavy-duty vehicles, or non-road engines—because currently there is not testing data to support such a waiver. Product Transfer Documents (PTDs) must accompany all transfers of fuels for E15 use.

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