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ARPA-E Begins Reviewing Second Round of Concept Papers for Transformational Energy RD

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The Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) of the US Department of Energy has received 583 concept papers in response to its second Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) released 7 December 2009. ARPA-E is currently reviewing all concept papers and is scheduled to provide feedback to applicants by mid-February 2010.

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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After earning a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from City College of New York in 1960, Kahn had joined Bell Telephone Laboratories , working at its headquarters in Manhattan, where he helped to analyze the overall architecture and performance of the Bell telephone system. “If The reactions were all the same.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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GENI: Green Electricity Network Integration ($36.4 Solar ADEPT: Solar Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology ($14.7 The goal of this project is to combine all of these genes. contains no rare earths, in a prototype electric motor. All generators contain coils of wire. Arlington). Lead organization.

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The Do-or-Die Moments That Determined the Fate of the Internet

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Kahn recruited about 50 people to act as facilitators, including the ARPA-funded researchers Vint Cerf , Robert Metcalfe , and Jon Postel , all of whom were destined for networking fame. There was electricity in the air,” Rosenthal recalled in a 1988 interview with one of us (Pelkey). Users in large organizations—including the U.S.

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