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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Quanex Building Products Corporation, Houston, Texas SCP SYS LLC, San Francisco, Calif. Institute for Building Technology and Safety (IBTS), San Jose, Calif. Arlington, Texas Environmental Insights Explorer for Buildings, $750,000 Google, Mountian View, Calif. Louis , Mo. San Jose, Calif. Sunrun, San Francisco, Calif.

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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“The next thing I know,” Kahn says, “there’s an RFQ [request for quotation] from ARPA for building a four-node net.” It never dawned on me that I’d actually get involved in building it,” he says. We visited three PTTs [postal, telegraph, and telephone services],” Jacobs said, “in Germany, in France, and in the U.K.

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DOE Joint Genome Institute approves 41 projects for 2012 Community Sequencing Program; climate, environment and bioenergy feedstocks

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Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany. Enhancing Bacterial Carbon Capture and Sequestration: Synthesis of Building Blocks for the Carboxysome, A Metabolic Module for CO2 Fixation. University of Texas at Arlington. University of Massachusetts. Dubilier, Nicole. Emerson, David. AgResearch, New Zealand.