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The Starting Line for Self-Driving Cars

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The 2004 DARPA Grand Challenge was a spectacular failure. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency had offered a US $1 million prize for the team that could design an autonomous ground vehicle capable of completing an off-road course through sometimes flat, sometimes winding and mountainous desert terrain.

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"The Doctor Will See Your Electronic Health Record Now"

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In 2004, President George W. Toms situation underlines the paradox of how far the United States has come since 2004 and how far it still must go to achieve President Bushs vision of a complete, secure, easily accessible, and seamlessly interoperable lifetime EHR. Bush set an ambitious goal for U.S.

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IEEE Presidents’ Scholarship Changes Students’ Lives

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Harvard educator and a film producer Elena Glassman received the scholarship in 2004 for her Brain-Computer Interface for the Muscularly Disabled project. Elena Glassman Elena Glassman received the scholarship in 2004 for her Brain-Computer Interface for the Muscularly Disabled project. The scholarship meant the world [to me].

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Michigan State University Receives $2.5M ARPA-E Award to Build Wave Disc Engine/Generator for Series Hybrid Applications

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Researchers from Michigan State University have been awarded $2.5 Swissauto Wenko AG of Switzerland produces a modern version of the Comprex—the Hyprex—designed for small gasoline engines. In axial-flow configurations, noted Müller and co-authors in a 2004 paper, pure scavenging is a challenging task. Source: Piechna, 2004.

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Colorado State University Spinoff to Commercialize 3D Li-ion Battery Technology for Higher-Capacity, Longer-Life Cells

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In a 2004 paper in the ACS journal Chemical Reviews , Long et al. Thus, battery design always trades off between available energy and the ability to release this energy without internal power losses. proposed configuring charge insertion batteries (i.e., —Long et al.

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Oregon transit district buying 11 New Flyer electric buses and 7 ABB depot chargers

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In assessing its transition to sustainable mobility, LTD employed a partnership with the University of Oregon (UO) to study opportunities and challenges. It focused on projects to make local transportation more efficient and sustainable, examining physical infrastructure and soliciting design ideas for transit stations.

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Pellion Technologies leveraging high throughput computational materials design to make progress on Mg-ion rechargeable batteries

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Pellion is leveraging such high throughput computational materials design, coupled with accelerated materials synthesis and electrolyte optimization to identify new high-energy-density magnesium cathode materials and compatible electrolyte chemistries. Chemistry of Materials 2010 22 (3), 860-868 doi: 10.1021/cm9016497. Technol. , 1, p 41.

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