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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.

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Dalma Novak’s Journey From Professor to Entrepreneur

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An expert in developing technology to transmit microwave and millimeter-wave signals over long distances using optical fibers, she left a tenured position at the University of Melbourne , in Parkville, Australia, to join a venture-backed U.S. in electrical engineering in 1992 from the University of Queensland in Brisbane.

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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. Outside the E.U.,

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Satellite study: livestock digestion released 70% more methane than oil and gas industry in 2004

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Livestock were the single largest source of methane gas emissions in the United States in 2004, releasing 70% more into the atmosphere than the oil and gas industry as estimated by other inventories, according to a new study by a team from Harvard University, JPL/CalTech and UC Irvine. emission inventory used as a priori.

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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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Geographical distributions of global BC emissions from motor vehicles in 1976 (A) and 2006 (B). Researchers at Peking University have developed a new methodology to model black carbon (BC) emissions from diesel and gasoline motor vehicles. An earlier global BC emission inventory by Bond et al. Credit: ACS, Wang et al.

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New phase of globalization could undermine efforts to reduce CO2 emissions

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A new study finds that the growth of carbon production from Chinese exports has slowed or reversed, reflecting a “new phase of globalization” between developing countries that could undermine international efforts to reduce emissions. The paper is published in Nature Communications. trillion) in 2014.