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Remembering Former IEEE President Ken Laker

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Later, he led the creation of the IEEE Virtual Museum (now the Engineering and Technology History Wiki ), an online repository of educational content. In addition to sharing his time and talents with IEEE, he was a professor of electrical engineering for 35 years at the University of Pennsylvania , in Philadelphia.

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

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He was a professor of computer science and engineering for more than 40 years. He also earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical communication engineering in 1970 from the Indian Institute of Science, in Bangalore. Gager joined the research and engineering division of AIL, in St. in engineering from Nihon University , in Tokyo.

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Study: California will hit climate targets >100 years too late at current pace of reductions; transportation, wildfires & landfills

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Since 2000, electricity has been the only economic sector that has seen continuous and significant improvements in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Between 2008 and 2017, total VMT increased 5% in California, but declined in Pennsylvania (-6%) and New York (-8%). Noel Perry, founder of Next 10.