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Daimler receives Porsche Prize for diesel aftertreatment system in OM 654

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The Professor Ferdinand Porsche Prize was awarded by Vienna University of Technology to Anke Kleinschmit, Head of Corporate Research & Sustainability and Environmental Officer for Daimler AG, for the development of the innovative exhaust gas aftertreatment system in the new OM 654 four-cylinder diesel engine ( earlier post ).

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‘AI Pause’ Open Letter Stokes Fear and Controversy

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In the news media, the open letter has inspired straight reportage , critical accounts for not going far enough (“ shut it all down ,” Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote in Time magazine), as well as critical accounts for being both a mess and an alarmist distraction that overlooks the real AI challenges ahead.

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AI Is Helping to Stop Animal Poaching and Food Insecurity

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For Fang’s work in the field, she was named one of IEEE Intelligent Systems magazine ’s “ AI’s 10 to Watch in 2020.”. Although she enjoyed coding, she decided to pursue a degree in biology at Tsinghua University , in Beijing. in computer science in 2016 and joined Harvard as a postdoctoral fellow. Fang earned her Ph.D.

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Why L. Ron Hubbard Patented His E-Meter

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From 1934 to 1940, he regularly penned 70,000 to 100,000 words per month of pulp fiction under 15 different pseudonyms published in various magazines. 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.”

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PHEVLERs are the Zero CO2 Clean Green Machines of the Future

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The 2016 Chevrolet Volt with an electric range of 53 miles [ 2 ] is the first commercial car that almost qualifies as a PHEVLER. from University of California, Davis and years of experience as an agricultural researcher. Frank (2016) Using the Fleet of Long Range Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles. Solarplaza 14 April 2016. [

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DOE BETO seeking input on Optima initiative for co-optimization of fuels and engines

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In fiscal year 2016 (beginning October 1, 2015), BETO and VTO jointly funded a consortium of nine DOE national laboratories to begin an initial three-year effort focused on Optima. Wagner (2015) “ Engines of the Future ” ASME Mechanical Engineering magazine. Optima program overview.

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Learn How the President-Elect Candidates Plan to Improve IEEE

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University of New Orleans for six years and an adjunct professor for two years. Grosz was also an adjunct engineering professor at Tulane University , also in New Orleans, for two years. He served on the IEEE Board of Directors as the 2016–2017 Region 5 director and the 2019 vice president of. He was granted two U.S.

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