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How Purdue University Commercializes Its Research

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“When I was learning data structures, I began to see things from a different viewpoint—how to make things efficient,” says Lu, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and a university faculty scholar at Purdue University’s Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering , in West Lafayette, Ind.

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Gasoline consumption per capita in 2020 was on par with that in 1965

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Michael Sivak is the managing director of Sivak Applied Research and the former director of Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan. Total consumption (millions of gallons).

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BMW opens new Shanghai R&D center; focus on human-machine interaction and hardware-software integration

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BMW’s software development department was established in 2002 and is now located in Mountain View (USA), Lisbon and Porto (Portugal), Munich and Ulm (Germany), Tokyo (Japan) and Shanghai, Beijing and Nanjing (China), with more than 8,000 software specialists worldwide.

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Traffic volume on rural and urban roads in the United States: 1991-2016

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Rural vehicle miles traveled (VMT) increased from 884 billion miles in 1991 to 1,127 billion miles in 2002, an increase of 27%. The average daily number of vehicles per lane on rural roads increased from 378 in 1991 to 491 in 2002, for an increase of 30%. Distance traveled. Traffic volume.

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Williams Advanced Engineering’s simulator technology to help in trial of driverless cars

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Williams’ expertise in simulation originates in Formula One where the Williams Formula One teams’ drivers have been using sophisticated simulators since 2002. Williams’ simulator technology will also help test public acceptance to driverless vehicles.

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Inventor of the First AI System That Could Read Handwriting Dies at 72

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University at Buffalo. Srihari was a pioneer in the field of computational forensics who in 2002 developed CEDAR-FOX , a software system that identifies people through their handwriting. State University of New York as well as the University of Buffalo , where he founded its Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition.

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Study associates long-term exposure to air pollution with increasing emphysema

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Long-term exposure to ambient air pollutants, especially O 3 (ozone), is significantly associated with increasing emphysema, according to a new study led by the University of Washington, Columbia University and the University at Buffalo. This work in the MESA Air study was led at the University of Washington.

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