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IEEE Medal of Honor Goes to Vint Cerf

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Since 2005, Cerf has been vice president and chief Internet evangelist at Google in Reston, Va., In 1986 he left the company to become vice president of the newly formed Corporation for National Research Initiatives , also in Reston. Together with Kahn, he was awarded a 2013 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering , a 2005 U.S.

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Volkswagen Group top global R&D spender in 2014; 3rd year in a row

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Screenshot from an interactive table showing top 20 R&D Spenders 2005-2014. Apple led that list, followed by Google, Amazon and Samsung. R&D spending as a percentage of revenue fell by 17% between 2005 and 2014. Click to enlarge. The software and Internet industry generated the most rapid growth (17%) in R&D spending in 2014.

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Meet Mr. Internet: Vint Cerf

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“The networks couldn’t be changed and couldn’t know that they were part of the Internet, because they already existed,” Cerf recalls recently in an interview at his office at Google, in Reston, Va. Once the dust had settled, Cerf sent an email to his old friend Eric Schmidt, who had been hired as CEO of Google in 2001. “Hi

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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. Louis , Mo. San Jose, Calif. Vitriflex Inc.,

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

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He established three startups between 1983 and 2005, and helped found Olin College. James Kuffner, CMU Professor and former head of Google Robotics – Cloud Computing. Hiroshi Okajima, Project General Manager, R&D Management Division, Toyota Motor Corporation – Executive Liaison Officer. John Leonard, Samuel C.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

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Enterprise Car Share Although Enterprise is known as a car rental giant, they have expanded into cars sharing in 2005, later featuring a program rich in hybrids, plug-in hybrids, and electric cars. During the pandemic operations were shut down and it is now more focused on on corporate programs.

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From Home Brew to Hasbro

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We were invited out to Hasbro corporate headquarters in Rhode Island to give a presentation to the engineering team about what we could do. in 2005 with Hasbro as our first customer. Balancing Android robots built for Google. Bob and I started a robotics consultancy called OLogic Inc. Ted Larson at Hasbro HQ in Rhode Island.