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Unifrax introduces Battery Advisory Board to support SiFAB silicon fiber anode battery technology

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SiFAB, a scalable proprietary silicon anode battery technology demonstrated in a number of applications, including electric vehicles, power tools, smartphones, personal computers, medical devices and aviation, can deliver up to a 20% increase in gravimetric energy density in lithium-ion batteries versus cells using a graphite anode.

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The Engineer Behind Samsung’s Speech Recognition Software

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He is the youngest person to be an executive vice president at the company. He left for Pittsburgh in 2005 to pursue a Ph.D. Access to trustworthy information Kim joined IEEE when he was a doctoral student so he could present his research papers at IEEE conferences. Kim long had hoped to earn a doctoral degree from a U.S.

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Leading the Way for More LGBTQ Inclusivity in STEM

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Agrawal found solace in advocacy and support organizations in London after moving there in 2005. After graduating in 2005 from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi , with a doctorate in physics, Agrawal decided to move to the United Kingdom. “I Speakers also presented on their optics research and shared their personal journeys. “It

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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Personal computers in the late 1980s began incorporating CD-ROM drives, but initially these could read only from prerecorded disks and could not store user-generated data. The dot-com boom of 1995 to 2000 further increased demand for personal computing gear. Clones,” Tan told the Straits Times in 2005, “in a sense, are marvelous.

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Letting in the Light

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All four men felt that LEVs could eventually be one of the most important forms of personal transportation, and had already been supporting that cause. Gerhardt has taught the course across Europe and the Americas, while Gerhardt, Martin, and Smith, have taken the class to International bike conferences in the US and India.

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Toyota Research Institute CEO Pratt outlines initial AI/robotics mandates; trillion-mile reliability

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At a press conference at CES 2016, TRI CEO and Toyota Executive Technical Advisor Dr. Gill Pratt laid out his new company’s near-term approach and challenges it seeks to address, as well as its much larger ambitions. Home robots may be even more personally prized in our future than cars have been in our past.

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The Long View from SAE 2009 World Congress

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Lead the team that won the DARPA Grand Challenge in 2005 for developing a vehicle that could navigate and drive through a desert course without human intervention. He works for Systemica, who has been contracted to design the Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) system for the citadel of Masdar. Professor Sebastian Thrun, Stanford University.

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