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Video Friday: Your Robot Dog

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ICRA 2022 – May 23-27, 2022 – Philadelphia, PA, USA Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today's videos. TAMU ] Fourteen years ago, a team of engineering experts and Virginia Tech students competed in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge and propelled Torc to success. Torc ] Blarg not more of this.

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US Public Transit Ridership in 2008 At Highest Level in 52 years; 10.7B Trips

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increase over the number of trips taken in 2007 on public transportation, while at the same time, vehicle miles traveled (VMT) declined by 3.6% The light rail system that started in November 2007 in Charlotte, NC showed the highest percentage of increase with an annual 862% increase. Americans took 10.7 This represents a 4.0%

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Video Friday: Your Robot Dog

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ICRA 2022 – May 23-27, 2022 – Philadelphia, PA, USA Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today's videos. TAMU ] Fourteen years ago, a team of engineering experts and Virginia Tech students competed in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge and propelled Torc to success. Torc ] Blarg not more of this.

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Former Berkeley Dean of Engineering David A. Hodges Dies at 85

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An active IEEE volunteer, Hodges served in several leadership roles including 2007 vice chair of the IEEE Awards Board and 2011–2012 vice president of the IEEE Publication Services and Products Board. He was largely responsible for moving the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in 1978 from Philadelphia to San Francisco.

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IEEE Power & Energy Society President Dies at 69

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He was an active member of the IEEE Magnetics Society and received its 2007 Johnson Storage Device Technology Award. from the University of Pennsylvania , in Philadelphia, in 1959. He managed several magnetic recording projects during his career. Williams was granted 27 U.S. patents during his time at IBM.

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Former IEEE Chief Financial Officer Richard Schwartz Dies at 77

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Mancino, a member of the IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society , was inducted in 2007 into its Hall of Fame. A decade later he earned a master’s degree in engineering from Drexel University , in Philadelphia. He moved up the career ladder and served as manager of engineering reliability.

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Paying Tribute to 1997 IEEE President Charles K. Alexander

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In 1986 he joined Temple University in Philadelphia as a professor and chair of the electrical engineering department. But after a few years, Alexander said, he missed creating and growing engineering programs at universities, so when an opportunity opened up at Cleveland State University in 2007, he took it.

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