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Former IEEE Chief Financial Officer Richard Schwartz Dies at 77

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Joel Moses MIT professor emeritus Life Fellow, 80; died 29 May Moses taught electrical engineering and computer science at MIT for 50 years. He probably was best known for developing Macsyma , MIT Project MAC’s symbolic manipulator. in computer science in 1967 from MIT. Moses earned a Ph.D. He served in the U.S.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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In 2001, a team of engineers at a then-obscure R&D company called AC Propulsion quietly began a groundbreaking experiment. It occurred in the wake of the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001, when mismanaged deregulation, market manipulation, and environmental catastrophe combined to unhinge the power grid.

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Video Friday: Grav Enhanced

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It was July 2001. We’re looking forward to more details on how they’re making it work. Flexiv ] A team of engineers has devised a modular system to produce efficient, scalable aquabots. The system’s simple repeating elements can assemble into swimming forms ranging from eel-like to wing-shaped. [ Jorgen Pedersen founded RE2 Robotics.

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Airbus signs research agreement with MIT to explore use of digital manufacturing in aerospace vehicles

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Airbus has signed a research agreement with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to explore the use of digital manufacturing in aerospace. The approach that we developed uses many small identical parts as regular building blocks. Joint systems between different parts add further complexity and structural vulnerabilities.

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Getting More Students to Develop Tech That Benefits Society

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student in electrical engineering and computer science at MIT. ?IEEE: The group’s 2001 report, “ Embedded, Everywhere ,” described a research agenda for distributed sensing that would enable large-scale systems, devices, and sensors to collect, share, and process information that could change the way people interact with their surroundings.

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The Real Story of Pixar

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Rather, the original spark often comes from a university lab , a renegade group at a large company, or a hobbyist building stuff for fun. The tools to build it emerged piecemeal. Catmull and Blanchard had been involved with software designed to build 3D geometric objects at the University of Utah. It had to be hardware.

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FAA Awards Contracts for $125M to 5 Companies to Accelerate More Environmentally Friendly Aviation Technology; Renewable Fuels, Engines, Wings and Flight Management

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This flight-test program builds on the success of Boeing’s Quiet Technology Demonstrators, which successfully highlighted a variety of noise reduction technologies during test flights aboard Boeing 777 aircraft from 2001 to 2005. Ron Rich, vice president of Propulsion Systems, Honeywell Aerospace. Pratt & Whitney.

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