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Get to Know the IEEE Board of Directors

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He has coauthored five books and more than 250 papers. He founded the IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium , and has contributed a column on microwave business to IEEE Microwave Magazine since 2011. Benedetto has been active in digital communications for more than 40 years. His publications have received more than 20,000 citations.

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Labour's £5,000 sweetener to launch electric car revolution | Environment | The Guardian

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Photograph: Graeme Robertson/Guardian Consumers are to be offered incentives of up to £5,000 to purchase an electric car under government plans to be unveiled today that will also see the creation of electric car cities across the UK and the launch of large-scale experiments with ultra-green vehicles.

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Speech Processing Pioneer Sadaoki Furui Dies at 77

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He was named director of the university’s library in 2009 and became director of the Contents Utilization Center in 2011, when he was named professor emeritus. He authored or coauthored more than 1,000 papers and books on speech recognition, artificial intelligence, and natural language processing. Boehm retired in May.

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Clean Tech - GigaOM - Salon.com

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But in recent months new players, including the Renault-Nissan Alliance, Daimler AG and battery maker Electrovaya , have come onto the scene as well — making China look more and more likely to give electric cars a strong push into the mass market. Nissan announced plans in November to start selling electric cars in the country by 2012.

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Finally, an eVTOL You Can Buy (Soon)

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If electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft do manage to revolutionize transportation, the date of 5 October 2011, may live on in aviation lore. Visually, it’s an astounding aircraft, like something from a 1930s pulp sci-fi magazine. Canada, startling his wife and several of his friends. “So, It’s also a triumph of engineering.

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Electric Car Manufacturers Inspire New Paradigms -- Seeking Alpha

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Kulongoski, Oregon as the electric-car manufacturer may be eyeing the “green” city of Portland. Think may use the former Freightliners plant site to employ over 1,000 workers that would ultimately expand to make 60,000 compact cars a year. By 2011 look for a larger THINK Ox. market b y the end of 2009. ENON.OB ) ).

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Traveling Through Time, Exploring the String Theory and Hugging the Giant Sequoias

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There was a nice selection of books, especially guides to the flora and fauna of the High Sierras. We also found magazines ( Utne Reader anyone?) I pulled an old issue of Sierra (the magazine of the Sierra Club) from July/August 1997. On 13 acres and just a 15 minute drive from the Park’s southern entrance.

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