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Audi names vehicle networking strategy Audi connect; expanding functions in summer 2011

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Audi has named its vehicle networking strategy “Audi connect.” The topics bundled within Audi connect will largely determine the mobility of the future. With Audi connect, the company is building on the foundation of a collaboration with Google that began in 2005. Car and internet. Car and owner.

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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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Google’s technology campaign for autonomous driving

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Search engine giant Google is looking for partners within in the auto industry to help launch one of the most significant applications of artificial technology over the next several years, the self-driving car. Google believes that a future state with having computers drive cars can “ remove a gigantic chunk ” of the US fatalities.

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Volkswagen Group in strategic collaboration with self-driving technology startup Aurora Innovation; Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) fleets

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The Volkswagen Group and self-driving technology startup Aurora Innovation, founded by technology veterans from Google, Tesla and Uber, announced a strategic collaboration ahead of the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Our vision is ‘Mobility for all, at the push of a button’.

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Audi launches its vehicle networking strategy

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Audi Connect will be the name of Audi’s new vehicle networking strategy as it bundles all applications and developments that link current and future models with the internet under one umbrella. The company is hoping to build on its collaboration with Google that began back in 2005 and look more closely at the fields of [.].

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MIT Professor’s IoT Sensors Make Roads Safer

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Back in 2005, before smartphones were generally available, MIT Professor Hari Balakrishnan was so fed up with commuting delays in Boston that he built a mobile system to monitor road conditions. This was before iPhones , Androids , and Google Maps.” They later founded CMT, with Madden serving as its chief scientist.

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