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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. Kunsan National University , in Korea; Miicevic is an assistant professor of telecommunications and IT at the University of Belgrade , in Serbia; and Bojkovi? is a professor of electrical engineering, also at the University of Belgrade. He received a Ph.D.

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

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The selected projects, led by universities, national laboratories, and the private sector aim to develop commercially scalable technologies that will enable greater domestic supplies of copper, nickel, lithium, cobalt, rare earth elements, and other critical elements. Columbia University. Harvard 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. Columbia University , New York, N.Y. Montana State University , Bozeman, Mont. Stanford University , Stanford, Calif.

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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Bob Taylor, then at the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) , got interested in connecting computers, in part to save the organization money by getting the expensive computers it funded at universities and research organizations to share their resources over a packet-switched network. 1962 and Ph.D. Bob had that.

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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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The projects selected are located in 25 states, with 50% of projects led by universities, 23% by small businesses, 12% by large businesses, 13% by national labs, and 2% by non-profits. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Development of a Dedicated, High-Value Biofuels Crop The University of Massachusetts, Amherst will develop an.

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DOE Selects 15 Projects Aimed at Secure CO2 Underground Storage

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The US Department of Energy has selected 15 projects to develop technologies aimed at safely and economically storing carbon dioxide in geologic formations. Arlington, Va.) Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.) Clemson University (Clemson, S.C.) Funded with $21.3

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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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One of single largest projects comes from Jeff Dangl at the University of North Carolina and his colleagues and focuses on the rhizosphere—the narrow region where microbes in the soil colonize and interact with plant roots. —Eddy Rubin, DOE JGI Director.