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BMW providing 10 pre-owned i3 EVs to UC Davis for 18 months

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The vehicles are 2015-2016 models, with battery technology that enables an everyday range of about 80-90 miles—suited for in-town driving, and enough for travel between Davis and Sacramento. This is one slice of conditioning the market, users and institutions like this university to think along those lines.

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Eugene H. Spafford: Malware Nemesis

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Spafford ’s more than three decades as professor of computer sciences at Purdue University , in West Lafayette, Ind., Indeed, the field didn’t really exist when he graduated from the State University of New York at Brockport with a bachelor’s degree in math and computer science in 1979. During Eugene H.

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Falling Domestic Fares and an A.I. Arms Race: What Travelers Can Expect in 2024

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Hayley Berg, lead economist for the booking platform Hopper , anticipates that for the next six months, domestic airfare will cost less than in 2023 and prepandemic years. Travelers booking domestic flights in February can expect to pay an average fare of about $276 round-trip — an 8 percent decrease from the same month last year.

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The Women Behind ENIAC

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This year Kleiman’s book Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World’s First Modern Computer was published. The book follows an award-winning documentary, The Computers: The Remarkable Story of the ENIAC Programmers , which Kleiman helped produce. Association Film Festival. But the women succeeded.

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This Startup’s AI Tool Makes Moving Day Easier

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Rattner cofounded Yembo in 2016 to develop an AI-based tool for moving companies that creates an inventory of objects in a home by analyzing video taken with a smartphone. Getting used to not being an expert In 2016, he quit his job to become a consultant and work on his startup idea in his spare time. We are bringing about change.

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Why L. Ron Hubbard Patented His E-Meter

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His first story, “ The Dangerous Dimension ,” was a light-hearted tale about a professor who could teleport anywhere in the universe simply by thinking “Equation C.” Touretzky , a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, maintains an extensive website critiquing the E-meter.

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Explore Pioneering Software at the Computer History Museum

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million annual views of its 1,656 videos, 125,000 subscribers, and 18 million views since launch The IEEE associate member has been with the museum since 2016 and has curated exhibits and events while regularly publishing historical essays. That’s what got me interested in looking to the past to understand how science and technology work.”