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NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Luiz André Barroso Data center pioneer Senior member, 59; died 16 September An engineer at Google for more than 20 years, Barroso is credited with designing the company’s warehouse-size data centers. as a researcher specializing in microprocessor design. He left Compaq in 2001 to join Google in Mountain View, Calif.,

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OCTOBER 30, 2019

The Volta Trucks concept HGV positions its driver low down, centrally and forward of the front axle, to give uninterrupted vision at street level through 220 degrees. Prodrive will help develop the design into a drivable demonstrator by early summer 2020. ?. —Steve Price, the project leader at Prodrive. ?.

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JUNE 26, 2023

Back in 2001, she spotted a poster on her professor’s door advertising for an internship, and she applied without knowing the company she’d be working for. But as her degree program came to a close in 2001, Chakraverty was undecided about her next move. “I It turned out to be Atari , the legendary video-game company.

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MAY 6, 2011

The C-X75 concept in Paris. Jaguar will develop the micro-turbine hybrid C-X75 concept car ( earlier post ) as a limited production supercar (maximum of 250), priced at between £700,000 - £900,000 (US$1.15 - $1.48 Newsome was at Jaguar Land Rover as Group Chief Engineer for Advanced Product Creation and Research between 2001 and 2007.

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JANUARY 31, 2024

For the first time since 2001, Kia surpassed Hyundai in market value with new affordable EVs rolling out this year. Kia EV4 concept (Source: Kia) The EV3 and EV4 concepts were introduced for the first time. It features a bold design with Kia’s “Opposites United” theme. trillion won).

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MARCH 11, 2023

In 2001, a team of engineers at a then-obscure R&D company called AC Propulsion quietly began a groundbreaking experiment. The concept behind V2G had gained traction in the late 1990s after California’s landmark zero-emission-vehicle (ZEV) mandate went into effect and compelled automakers to commercialize electric cars.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Increasing complexity of vehicle design is driving the need for better simulation and more powerful computers. injector optimization at ORNL); and reduced models for design optimization and control strategies. Low emission, low temperature engine concepts of the future operate in regimes where combustion is poorly understood.

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MAY 4, 2021

It has specialisation in hardware and software that is designed to work in any climatic conditions. The Power Transfer Cohort began virtually on March 29, 2021, and is scheduled to conclude with concept design presentations to NGCV leadership on May 20, 2021.

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APRIL 9, 2013

Concept of valve implementation on 4-cylinder head. LaunchPoint designed and tested a prototype actuator using the magnetic spring technology originally developed for a high-speed switching mechanism in a space application (US Patent 7,265,470). Such valves can be designed into new engines and retrofitted to existing engines.

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JULY 23, 2014

Scheme of the HARKEN concept. The approach is similar in concept to technologies Ford described as part of its release of the S-MAX Concept ( Earlier post.) The approach is similar in concept to technologies Ford described as part of its release of the S-MAX Concept ( Earlier post.) All are invisible to the user.

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DECEMBER 11, 2009

satellite imagery; from left, 1975, 1989, and 2001. The new tools are designed to be used by policy makers, governments, the scientific community, and the public via a dedicated Forest Carbon Tracking portal , and were introduced at the UNFCCC climate summit in Copenhagen. Progressive deforestation in Rondonia, Brazil as seen in.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2009

An axial symmetric design offers a number of advantages, according to Aura, including: shorter flux return paths; much smaller total rotor volume; shorter stator coil end turns; symmetry keeps magnetic density more uniform throughout magnetic loop; plane of symmetry with two stators reduces volume where useless leakage can exist; and.

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DECEMBER 27, 2022

There he was responsible for designing and developing computer-controlled automated test equipment. Later, as dean of engineering, Moses launched Engineering With a Big E, a strategy to include concepts from the social sciences and management in the engineering curriculum. as chief engineer in its filter division. He served in the U.S.

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AUGUST 20, 2011

The new gearbox uses the same state-of-the-art dual-clutch concept as the PowerShift transmission which is already available in European Ford vehicles with more powerful diesel and EcoBoost gasoline engines. —Graham Hoare, Executive Director Powertrain Development, Ford of Europe. Using a modified version of the 1.6-liter

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JUNE 30, 2023

For his “leadership and innovative concepts in the design, deployment, and utilization of airborne and space-based radar systems,” Moreira is this year’s recipient of the IEEE Dennis J. Moreira led a research team of 10 people working on airborne- and satellite-system design and data processing.

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APRIL 7, 2022

She explains that Gateway is being designed with potential intravehicular robots (IVRs) in mind, including things like adding visual markers to important locations, placing convenient charging ports around the station interior, and designing the hatches such that the force required to open them is compatible with the capabilities of robotic limbs.

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MAY 22, 2009

Another goal is to provide a durable compact VCR actuator design. In varying the distance between the cylinder head and the crankshaft, the Envera approach is similar to a VCR concept proposed by SAAB ( earlier post ), which uses a hinged, tilting cylinder arrangement. A Report to the US Congress, April 2001 (DOE).

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MAY 1, 2009

The concept’s key feature is the use of high-temperature heat from a solar concentrating tower to drive the chemical process of converting biomass to a biofuel, obtaining a near-complete utilization of carbon atoms in the biomass. The purpose of the concept, said Edgar G. Total cost estimate (2001$/GJ), inc.

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JANUARY 3, 2017

FCA US unveiled the Chrysler Portal concept, an all-electric, semi-autonomous (SAE Level 3) interpretation of the “fifth generation” of family transportation focused toward the millennial generation. The Chrysler Portal concept is backed by significant research on the millennial generation. Earlier post.). Third space.

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DECEMBER 6, 2013

Working with Neil Gershenfeld, director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA) and his team, the aircraft manufacturer will evaluate how the digital material concepts being developed at MIT can potentially be applied to the design and construction of aerospace vehicles. Press the “i” key for index.) Source: CBA.

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AUGUST 30, 2009

One of the designers called Buick “ premium without being pretentious ” Buick appears to be targeting a Lexus like experience. The Enclave was the first step in the “ renaissance of the Buick brand ” as mentioned by another designer. The Cadillac Converj extended-range electric vehicle Concept uses the Voltec platform.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

The first member of this new generation of internal combustion engines will be an advanced three-cylinder TwinPower Turbo gasoline unit—an example of which is being applied in the Concept Advanced Tourer plug-in hybrid to be shown in Paris. The third element of this high technology concept consists of turbo-charging.

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MARCH 21, 2024

While at the University of Utah, Blanchard designed and built hardware that clipped 3D shapes to only what was potentially visible. Carpenter had been working in the computer-aided design group at Boeing , in Seattle, where he developed procedural modeling. Hanrahan helped refine shading language concepts as well.

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APRIL 21, 2009

The nonprofit CalCars does conversions to demonstrate new designs and provide a platform for different batteries; we dont sell conversions. We have sponsored the EAA-PHEV project and our Open-Source designs are being used by some of the private companies as well as technically advanced individuals. So far, most start as hybrids.

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OCTOBER 8, 2022

Busicom had hired Intel to develop a set of custom chips for a low-cost calculator and had sent three engineers to Santa Clara to work on the chip designs. The Busicom engineers had no interest in dumping their design in favor of Hoff’s unproved proposal. Wortman People most respected Intel Corp. San Jose, Calif.,

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

To produce clear images in the infrared wavelengths the telescope uses, the segments have to be within tens of nanometers of the shape specified in the spacecraft design. None of that technology really existed in 2001, so we started from the ground up with concepts and simple experiments. You worked on it for more than 20 years.

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MAY 21, 2023

Those photons don’t need to have the same properties as those that entered the pillars; we can change these properties by the way we design and distribute the pillars. From concept to commercialization Researchers around the world have been exploring the concept of metalenses for decades.

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AUGUST 6, 2021

The football-field-sized array of pressurized modules, support girders, solar arrays, radiator panels, robotic arms, and other mechanisms was designed to operate in a weightless environment. By 2001-'02, the results were as Kranz and his colleagues had warned.

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JULY 20, 2023

When Zeekr 001 was once introduced, we concept it was once a comic story, because it was once a rebadged Lynk&Co 0 idea from any other Geely model. In the meantime, in Europe, BMW was once pushing the concept that consumers want to have a call and that they’d trade in their usual vehicles with ICE or BEV choices.

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