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

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Arlington, Texas Environmental Insights Explorer for Buildings, $750,000 Google, Mountian View, Calif. Arlington, Texas Ionic liquids as novel lubricant additives for HVAC compressors for enhanced efficiency and durability, $150,000 Ingersoll Rand, Bloomington, Minn. MetalTek International, Watertown, Wis. IsoTherm Inc.,

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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We visited three PTTs [postal, telegraph, and telephone services],” Jacobs said, “in Germany, in France, and in the U.K. A plaque commemorating the ARPANET now stands in front of the Arlington, Va., He recalls traveling through Europe with Kahn, trying to convince organizations to become part of the network. “We

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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. University of Texas at Arlington. University of Massachusetts. Microbial ecology and genomics of carbon-storing bacteria in rhizosphere soils. Dubilier, Nicole. Understanding novel pathways for energy and carbon use in bacterial symbionts of gutless marine worms. Emerson, David.