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IEEE Medal of Honor Goes to Vint Cerf

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Together they make up the Internet’s core architecture and enable computers to connect and exchange traffic. Since 2005, Cerf has been vice president and chief Internet evangelist at Google in Reston, Va., He returned to MCI in 1994 and served as a senior vice president for 11 years before joining Google. “It

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Meet Mr. Internet: Vint Cerf

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For the past three months, Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn had been working together on a problem Kahn had been pondering for some time: how to connect ground-based military computers seamlessly to communications satellites and mobile radios. The first real-world test came in 1975, connecting Stanford to BBN in Cambridge, Mass., universities.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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The TCF was created by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to promote promising energy technologies. Quanex Building Products Corporation, Houston, Texas SCP SYS LLC, San Francisco, Calif. Arlington, Texas Environmental Insights Explorer for Buildings, $750,000 Google, Mountian View, Calif. TerraPower LLC, Bellevue, Wash. Louis , Mo.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

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The stated goal is to experiment in autonomous on-demand vehicles, hedging the reduction in vehicle sales caused by ride sharing by making GM the preferred vehicle provider for Lyft drivers and integrating connectivity tools like OnStar. During the pandemic operations were shut down and it is now more focused on on corporate programs.

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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

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In connection with this year’s Group of Eight conference in Italy, China reiterated its opposition to participating in emission reduction plans while at the same time drafting a $440-billion renewable energy package. Renewable energy projects are frequently financed with project rather than corporate finance. chance of default.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

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Individuals and businesses lose months and connect fees when they add solar and other forms of renewable energy to the grid. Installation will be made of thousands of in-home control devices and the necessary systems to fully automate home energy use. The current electrical grid is poorly designed for distributed generation of power.

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