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Remembering Data Compression Pioneer K. R. Rao

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University of Texas at Arlington for more than 50 years. After graduating, he joined UT Arlington as a research professor. Originally proposed as an image-compression technique, DCT is now an industry standard in image and video coding, commonly used to store and transmit JPEG images as well as MPEG video files.

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ARPA-E awarding $39M to 16 projects to grow the domestic critical minerals supply chain

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The projects selected projects as part of the MINER program are: University of Texas at Arlington. million tonnes of CO 2 per year will be sequestered in mine tailings that are permanently and safely stored with a decrease of 100 kg of CO 2 equivalent per tonne of ore processed. An estimated 2.2 2,200,000). Columbia University.

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DOE Selects 19 Projects to Monitor and Evaluate Geologic CO2 Storage

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In order for low-cost electricity from coal-fired power plants to remain available, the DOE said, economical methods for capturing and storing the greenhouse gas emissions from these plants must be developed. Such tagging will better quantify CO 2 monitoring and make it possible to accurately inventory geologically stored carbon.

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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The facility is used by the LRTA to store, fuel, maintain, and repair transportation vehicles (buses, vans, tow trucks etc.) The facility is a 70,000 square foot building located in an industrial zone in Lowell, Massachusetts. Arlington Transit – ART, Virginia: $1,500,000. as well as administrative and dispatch services.

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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Meanwhile, over at BBN, Kahn intended to spend a couple of years in industry so he could return to academia with some real-world experience and ideas for future research. “I Kahn reached out to industry for funding, making it clear that, as a nonprofit, CNRI intended to make its research results open to all.

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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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production of oil, which is stored in seeds and is convertible to. is one of the most energy dense forms of stored energy in. engineer sugarcane and sorghum to produce and store oil, a. exceeding the magnetic properties of industrially important. Arlington). industries, without the need for these costly and scarce.

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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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Additionally, novel enzymes in these fungal genomes may have industrial applications in the biomass pretreatment processes. Microbial ecology and genomics of carbon-storing bacteria in rhizosphere soils. University of Texas at Arlington. DeAngelis, Kristen. University of Massachusetts. Dubilier, Nicole. Pukkila, Patricia.