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Remembering Roberto Saracco, President of EIT Digital

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Saracco also taught courses on technology forecasting and market impact at the University of Trento in Italy. In 2003 he was promoted to director of long-term research at the lab, focusing on technology’s evolution and its potential impact. Saracco also contributed to standardizing the company’s telecommunications management network.

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Studying Climate Change with an Ice Radar Drone

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candidate at Stanford University, launches Peregrine at Norway’s Slakbreen glacier. This data has come in large part from ICESat , launched in 2003, and its successor, ICESat-2 , launched in 2018. Laser altimetry’s problems would seem to have no connection to aircraft-based IPR surveys. At the time, two U.S.

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How to Prevent Blackouts by Packetizing the Power Grid

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Similar mismatches in supply and demand contributed to massive cascading blackouts in August 2003 in the northeastern United States and Canada, in July 2012 in India , and in March 2019 in Venezuela. Ideally, you’d want farms in these areas to use greener, grid-connected electric pumps rather than diesel ones.

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How the Inventor of DSL Altered the Course of Connectivity

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John Cioffi Employer Stanford Title Professor of electrical engineering Member grade Life Fellow Alma maters University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Stanford “That memory always stayed in the back of my mind,” Cioffi says. “As Fighting for copper in a fiber-obsessed world Cioffi arrived at engineering by way of his love of mathematics.

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