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In Nigeria, Why Isn’t Broadband Everywhere?

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The first undersea cable to arrive, SAT-3/WASC , made land in 2001; the most recent is 2Africa, which landed in 2024. Here, the fiber-optic cables rise like thick vines in gray rooms on the ground floors or in the basements of the office towers that house the banks powering Nigerian finance. equivalents.

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ARRA funding raises R&D expenditures within federally funded R&D centers 11% to $16.8B in FY 2010

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FFRDCs are privately operated R&D organizations that are exclusively or substantially financed by the federal government. Each FFRDC is operated, managed, and/or administered by a university or university consortium, a nonprofit organization, or an industrial firm, either as an autonomous organization or as a separate operating unit.

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Li-ion maker Amprius raises $30M to accelerate commercialization of high-energy, high-capacity batteries

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Amprius’ technology was initially developed at Professor Yi Cui’s laboratory at Stanford University; Prof. SAIF Partners, a leading Asian private equity firm, led the financing, in which all of Amprius’ previous investors participated. SAIF Partners was founded in 2001 and currently manages over $3.6 billion in capital.

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Empa and partners exploring DME as fuel with new heavy-duty test engine

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The research project is co-financed by the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (FOEN). The platform for these discussions is the “International DME Association” founded in 2001, which currently has 50 members from science and industry. The project still in the pre-competitive phase, Soltic said.

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The President-Elect Candidates’ Plans to Further IEEE’s Mission

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Second, we need to streamline our financing of new innovations and systematize the introduction of these programs. IEEE Fellow John Verboncoeur Steven Miller Nominated by the IEEE Board of Directors Verboncoeur is senior associate dean for research and graduate studies in Michigan State University’s (MSU) engineering college, in East Lansing.

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Video-Game Engineer Sushama Chakraverty Answered the Call of Duty

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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. She left India to pursue a master’s degree in computer science at the University of Maryland , Baltimore County. It turned out to be Atari , the legendary video-game company.

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From Fixing Farm Equipment to Becoming a Director at 3M

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During the day he installed telecommunication equipment for Michigan Bell , a subsidiary of AT&T, and at night he attended the Lawrence Institute of Technology (now Lawrence Technological University ), in Southfield, outside of Detroit. After he was discharged, he continued his education at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.