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UK, Iran team develops new materials to improve enhanced oil recovery

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A new class of materials which are suitable agents for displacing oil in enhanced oil recovery operations has been developed by scientists at Swansea University (UK) and scientists at Islamic Azad University in Iran. Barron reported their find in the ACS journal Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. 7b01675.

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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

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Fuzzy theory is wrong, wrong, and pernicious,” said William Kahan, a highly regarded professor of computer sciences and mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley in 1975. Kalman in 1972, who is now a professor at Florida State University in Tallahassee. Research in Iran was nonexistent.” But Zadeh never wavered.

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Lockheed Martin’s CTO Steven Walker on Future Defense Technologies

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As a high school student in the early 1980s, he was concerned by the hostage crisis in Iran and the Cold War, he says. "My He joined its Junior ROTC at his high school in Dayton, Ohio, and won a scholarship from the corps to attend the University of Notre Dame , in Indiana. In 2017 he was appointed DARPA director.

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How the Huawei Fight is Changing the Face of 5G

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That alarmed the US, which equated Huawei's dominance with Chinese-control of global telecommunications—under a 2017 Chinese law all domestic companies are compelled to help the Chinese intelligence services on demand. Huawei has said it would not comply with such a request and believes that it cannot be legally forced to do so.

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Integrated solar-driven system for electrochemical energy storage and water electrolysis for H2 production

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A team from UCLA and colleagues from Tarbiat Modares University and Shahed University in Iran have devised an integrated solar-powered system for both electrochemical energy storage and water electrolysis. Yasin Shabangoli, Mohammad S. Rahmanifar, Maher F. El-Kady, Abolhassan Noori, Mir F. Mousavi, Richard B. 2017.09.010.

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Why Cyberwarfare Is Overhyped

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Shapiro: So I’m a professor of law and philosophy at Yale University. And I was a computer science major at Columbia University. And a lot of people were asking when the book came out in 2017, “What about cyber war? So I think that Russia, North Korea, Iran, they’re the geopolitical peasants, so to speak.

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