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Inventor of AT&T’s Datakit, the First Virtual Connection Switch, Dies at 85

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AT&T named him chief scientist, and in that position he worked on developing architecture and protocols for a large-scale Internet so that customers could connect to it from their homes. He was the 2014–2015 chair of the IEEE Seoul Section. He decided to focus more on research and left his position as vice president.

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MIT CSAIL, Cornell study finds rides-sharing theoretically could cut taxi traffic in NYC by 75%

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A new modeling study by a team from MIT CSAIL (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory) and Cornell suggests that using ride-sharing from companies like Uber and Lyft theoretically could reduce the number of taxis on the road in New York City by 75% without significantly impacting travel time.

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Liberty Mutual Insurance’s Solaria Labs unveils new developer portal for future products and apps; from safest routing to damage assessment

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Solaria Labs , an innovation incubator established in 2015 by Liberty Mutual Insurance, is introducing an open API developer portal that combines public data with proprietary insurance knowledge, helping to inform future products and apps for customers.

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Toyota Research Institute invests $22M in research on AI, robotics and autonomous driving at University of Michigan

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TRI-ANN is the third TRI facility, joining TRI offices in Palo Alto near Stanford and in Cambridge, near MIT. The two offices of the Toyota Technical Center have long worked with U-M on connected vehicles and safety research. Both will retain U-M faculty positions part-time.

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Virtual Reality Helps Students Improve Their Math Literacy

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Traveling and having a personal connection to Prisms VR customers,” she says, “has been really valuable in designing and updating the modules.” STEM at the root Ganguly says she was inspired to help reform STEM education when she was a graduate student at MIT.

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Harvard hybrid “bionic leaf” converts solar energy to liquid fuel isopropanol

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One approach to establishing this connection is to use the hydrogen from water splitting to reduce carbon dioxide to generate liquid fuels via a biocatalyst. Silver and Nocera began collaborating two years ago, shortly after Nocera came to Harvard from MIT. —Torella et al. Schematic diagram of bioelectrochemical cell.

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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Mildred Dresselhaus worked at MIT, which she joined in 1960 as a researcher in its Lincoln Laboratory Solid State Division, in Lexington, Mass. In 2015 Dresselhaus became the first female recipient of the IEEE Medal of Honor. “The She became a professor of electrical engineering in 1967 and joined the physics department in 1983.