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Paying Tribute to Former IEEE President Richard Gowen

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His project led to the development of a device worn on a person's finger that measures blood pressure during physical exercise. He helped found Dakota Power in 2007. He was active in the IEEE Denver Section and was a founding member of the IEEE Pikes Peak Section , in Colorado Springs. in biomedical engineering in 1962.

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Study finds 2008 recession contributed to increase in age of US LDV fleet, slowing of emission reductions

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The global economic recession of 2008—which severely depressed light-duty vehicle sales—resulted in an increase in the age of the light-duty vehicle fleet in the US that likely slowed the rate of decrease of fleet average emissions, according to a study by Gary Bishop and Donald Stedman at the University of Denver.

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Junkyard Find: 1972 Chevrolet Vega Kammback

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The Vega has been a junkyard rarity for decades now, but I just found six early Vegas all within a couple of rows of one another in a Denver self-service yard. The fact that this car showed up with five other Vegas at the same time in a single boneyard suggests that a Vega enthusiast's personal hoard collection was liquidated.

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Daimler creates subsidiary for innovative mobility services; targeting €100M revenue within next 24 months

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GottaPark customers can already reserve parking spaces online from a pool of more than 300,000 parking spots in eight US cities (San Francisco, Seattle, San Diego, Denver, Houston, Boston, Chicago, and Miami), as well as in Vancouver, Canada. Since 2007 GottaPark has been working to make parking in cities easier.