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CARB, NOAA, NASA and San Jose State University scientists team up to study ozone transported across Pacific

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Current ozone levels in the San Joaquin Valley are predominantly caused by local emissions, but as air quality standards become lower, any contribution from global ozone levels needs to be understood. The LiDAR technology uses a laser to measure ozone concentrations in a vertical column up to 5 kilometers above the ground.

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NEVS and AutoX to collaborate on large-scale RoboTaxi deployment in Europe

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AutoX’s vision to empower the world with AI drivers enabling universal access to transportation of people and goods, safely and efficiently, makes them go truly hand in hand with our view on the future we want to create. AutoX was founded in 2016 by Jianxiong Xiao (a.k.a. —Stefan Tilk, CEO of NEVS.

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ICCT paper assesses leading regional EV markets in US and policies behind them

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The authors defined regions as the Midwest, Mountain, Northeast, South, and West, based on the US Census (2016). Four of the areas—Portland, San Jose, San Francisco, and Santa Cruz—have 20 or more actions in place. The base regional unit for the study was the metropolitan statistical area (MSA).

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Ford to begin autonomous vehicle testing on California roads; Silicon Valley Lab accelerates Smart Mobility Plan

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Ford has cultivated relationships with top universities this year, including University of California-Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University, Santa Clara and San Jose State. It uses standard, well-known tools to open up a wealth of data from the vehicle to developers, even beyond OBD-II.

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IEEE Power & Energy Society President Dies at 69

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Williams joined IBM in San Jose, Calif., in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California , in Los Angeles. Ferreira was the 2015–2016 president of the IEEE Power Electronics Society. He left in 1985 to join the Rand Afrikaans University, now part of the University of Johannesburg.

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Learn About the Candidates Running for 2023 President-Elect

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Tom Coughlin Harry Who Photography Coughlin is founder and president of Coughlin Associates , in San Jose, Calif., Kathleen Kramer JT MacMillan Kramer is a professor of electrical engineering at the University of San Diego , where she served as chair of the EE department and director of engineering from 2004 to 2013.

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U-Michigan, IBM collaborate on data-centric high performance computing system

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The University of Michigan is collaborating with IBM to develop and deliver “ data-centric ” supercomputing systems designed to increase the pace of scientific discovery in fields as diverse as aircraft and rocket engine design, cardiovascular disease treatment, materials physics, climate modeling and cosmology.

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