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Meet the “First Lady of Engineering”

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As a smart Black woman who shattered the barriers imposed by race and gender, she made history multiple times during her career in academia and industry. She probably is best known as the first woman to serve as a faculty member in the engineering college at Tennessee State University , in Nashville.

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"The Doctor Will See Your Electronic Health Record Now"

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IT to Correct Health Care Inefficiencies Is a Global Project Putting government pressure on the health care industry to adopt EHR systems through various financial incentives made sense by the early 2000s. health care system in a worse place than when President Bush first declared his EHR goal in 2004. Spending increased from $74.1

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William Ratcliff, Former IEEE Region 3 Director, Dies at 80

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He earned a bachelors degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University , in West Lafayette, Ind. He earned two bachelors degrees, one in computer science in 1976 and the other in electrical engineering in 1978, both from the University of Sydney. government and in private industry before becoming a consultant.

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The Telecommunications Pioneer Who Helped Connect the World

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Seizo Onoe Employer: International Telecommunication Union Title: Director of the ITU’s Telecommunication Standardization Bureau Member Grade: Life member Alma Mater: Kyoto University In 1991 2G networks signaled the fledgling industry’s switch to digital—which improved security and broadened the range of features.

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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. Nigerians trust each other so little that a university guesthouse I stayed in had its name printed on the wall-mounted air conditioner units to discourage theft. equivalents. But Nigerians trust mobile payments.

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U-M and Shanghai Jiao Tong University fund 6 energy and biomedical projects; batteries, policy and fuels

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Six research teams from the University of Michigan (U-M) and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) have won a share of $1.16 The universities have committed to spending up to $3 million each on their part of the collaborative research over the five-year period.

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Primus Green Energy to support gas-to-liquids research at Princeton University; comparing STG+ to other GTL platforms

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STG+ technology converts syngas into drop-in high-octane gasoline and jet fuel with a conversion efficiency of ~35% by mass of syngas into liquid transportation fuels (the highest documented conversion efficiency in the industry) or greater than 70% by mass of natural gas. Primus Green Energy Inc., —Prof.