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The Engineer Behind Samsung’s Speech Recognition Software

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The most rewarding part of my career is helping to develop technologies that my friends and family members use and enjoy,” Kim says. He recently left Samsung to continue his work in the field at Korea University , in Seoul, leading the school’s speech and language processing laboratory. But after earning my Ph.D.,

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Study finds rates of LDV fuel consumption in US peaked in 2004; indications of peak motorization

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Based on the present data, his best estimates of the current annual fuel-consumption rates are: 398 gallons (1,507 liters) per person, 585 gallons (2,214 liters) per licensed driver, 1,033 gallons (3,910 liters) per household, and 530 gallons (2,006 liters) per registered vehicle. Fuel consumed per person. 2001 to 2006. -5%.

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

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Candidate Statement Aristotle said, “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” 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. IEEE Fellow S.K.

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Riversimple introduces Rasa prototype two-seater fuel cell vehicle; 300 miles on 1.5kg H2; production version in 2018

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With a total curb weight of 580 kg (1,279 lbs)—nearly half of a small car—it features a carbon composite chassis and only 18 moving parts in the entire powertrain. Its lines were styled by Chris Reitz, one of Europe’s leading car designers. Starting later this year, following funding to match a €2-million (US$2.23

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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CRAWFORD EMPLOYER Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. TITLE ‘Professor of civil engineering, agronomy, and electrical and computer engineering MEMBER GRADE Fellow ALMA MATERS University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Ohio State University, Columbus But her engineering path eventually led her back to agriculture.

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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.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. In April 1999, the Israeli company M-Systems filed a patent application titled “Architecture for a Universal Serial Bus-based PC flash disk.”

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