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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 Stanford team hadnt entered the 2004 Grand Challenge and wasnt expected to win the 2005 race. In the 2004 race, CMUs Sandstorm had gone furthest, completing 12 km. Many of the other 2004 competitors regrouped to try again, and new ones entered the fray.

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Get to Know the IEEE Board of Directors

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IEEE Senior Member Takako Hashimoto Director, Region 10: Asia Pacific Prame Hashimoto is a professor and deputy to the president at Chiba University of Commerce , in Ichikawa City, Japan, where she specializes in data science, artificial intelligence, and information systems. Clem Karl, and Yong Lian. IEEE Life Fellow W.

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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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Peking University team develops method for modeling historical global black carbon emissions from motor vehicles with reduced uncertainty

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Researchers at Peking University have developed a new methodology to model black carbon (BC) emissions from diesel and gasoline motor vehicles. Black carbon is a key short-lived climate change forcer ( earlier post ) and motor vehicles are important sources of BC in the environment. Credit: ACS, Wang et al. Click to enlarge.

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Measurements of CO2 and CO in China’s Air Indicate Sharply Improved Combustion Efficiency

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A team of atmospheric scientists and environmental engineers from Harvard University and Tsinghua University in Beijing have continuously measured atmospheric CO 2 and carbon monoxide (CO) levels in rural Miyun, about 100 km northeast of Beijing, since November 2004. She completed her Ph.D. Munger, J. McElroy, M. Nielsen, C.

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X PRIZE Foundation Aims to Launch $100M in Prizes Over Next 10 Years, Targeting 4 Key Areas

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The X PRIZE Foundation (XPF) is expanding its vision to address worldwide challenges in the areas of Energy & Environment; Exploration of the Oceans and Space; Life Sciences; and Education & Global Development with $100 million in prizes over the next 10 years. Energy & Environment. pH, temperature, current), mapping (e.g.

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Ford unveils Fusion Hybrid research vehicle for autonomous driving

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Ford, in conjunction with the University of Michigan and State Farm, unveiled a Ford Fusion Hybrid automated research vehicle that will be used to make progress on future autonomous driving and other advanced technologies. State Farm and the University of Michigan’s robotics and automation research team are critical to Ford research project.