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How MIT’s Muriel Medard Pioneered the Universal Decoder

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The MIT electrical engineering and computer science professor’s positive thinking has led to new ways to improve tried-and-true techniques in the field of information theory. The chip uses a new algorithm the team developed with Ken Duffy from Maynooth University : guessing random additive noise decoding (GRAND).

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Inside the Universe Machine: The Webb Space Telescope’s Ultra-Reliable Radio

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It’s an ideal location for JWST to observe the universe without obstruction and with minimal orbital adjustments. Menzel says he first saw the frequency selection proposals for JWST around 2000, when he was working at Northrop Grumman. It’s a point of gravitational equilibrium located about 1.5 One is the 2.09 The other is the 2.27

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Production of crude oil as a percentage of proved reserves: Recent worldwide and US trends

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The raw data for this study were proved reserves of crude oil (obtained from Oak Ridge National Laboratory ) and annual crude-oil production (calculated from the information in the same source). This analysis is an update of the analysis that examined the situation through 2017. Several of those values were recently revised.)

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Columbia team organizes available scientific evidence on the effects of air pollution on children’s health

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Researchers at Columbia University, with colleagues at Boston University and Abt Associates, have identified concentration-response (C-R) functions for a number of adverse health outcomes in children associated with air pollutants largely from fossil fuel combustion. A paper on their work is published in journal Environmental Research.

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Distances traveled on the road and in the air: 1970-2015

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The decrease in passenger-distance traveled in light-duty vehicles per person from 2000 to 2015 is the consequence of both the decrease in vehicle-distance traveled and the decreases in the average vehicle occupancy rates for both short-wheel-base vehicles and long-wheel-base vehicles assumed by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.)

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Remembering Former IEEE President Ken Laker

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The US $10,000 scholarship is administered by IEEE Educational Activities and is payable over four years of undergraduate university study. 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. He retired in 2019.

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Meet the Candidates Running for 2025 IEEE President-Elect

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For more information about the election, president-elect candidates, and petition process, visit the IEEE election website. Fran Graley Photography IEEE Fellow Mary Ellen Randall Nominated by the IEEE Board of Directors Randall founded Ascot Technologies in 2000 in Cary, N.C. He received a Ph.D. S K Ramesh IEEE Fellow S.K.