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Saifur Rahman is 2022 IEEE President-Elect

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National Science Foundation Advisory Committee for International Science and Engineering from 2010 to 2013. Rahman is the founding editor in chief of the IEEE Electrification Magazine and the IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy. Rahman is also the founder and chairman of BEM Controls in McLean, Va., He served as chair of the U.S.

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How E Ink Developed Full-Color e-Paper

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Its resolution was simply too low and the colors not bright enough for people who were used to the high resolution of tablet computers or print magazines. This technology was first launched in 2013 for retail ESLs. Similar electrophoretic shelf labels that use displays from China’s DKE Co. have since come on the market.

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Learn How the President-Elect Candidates Plan to Improve IEEE

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National Science Foundation Advisory Committee for International Science and Engineering from 2010 to 2013. IEEE Electrification Magazine and the IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy. Rahman is also the founder and chairman of BEM Controls in McLean, Va., a software company that provides buildings with energy efficiency solutions.

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Speech Processing Pioneer Sadaoki Furui Dies at 77

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He left Tokyo in 2013 to become president of the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago and served in that position until 2019. He received a 2013 Okawa Prize for “pioneering contributions and leadership in the field of computer-based speech recognition and understanding.” Burrus Jr.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

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Fortunately, one of my fellow contributing editors at the magazine is a bundle of answers. One of the things that EV owners know is that if you're going to take a trip, pull your phone and tell the car, 15 or 30 minutes before you start, hey, warm up your battery, pre-condition the cabin and do it on grid power so you have a full battery.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

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Fortunately, one of my fellow contributing editors at the magazine is a bundle of answers. One of the things that EV owners know is that if you're going to take a trip, pull your phone and tell the car, 15 or 30 minutes before you start, hey, warm up your battery, pre-condition the cabin and do it on grid power so you have a full battery.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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Small long-term evaluation program, including modeling of vehicle-to-grid building benefits and economics, begun with Southern California Edison, joined by EPRI, other utilities, US DOE. Hybrid Sonata model year 2011, possible PHEV version in 2013. Daimler/Mercedes Took over Daimler/Chrysler Sprinter PHEV program. Batteries not ready.

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