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DOE announces $16M for 17 Phase 1 projects in ultra-high temperature materials program; ARPA-E ULTIMATE

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ULTIMATE projects address two target temperature levels and seek to develop ultrahigh temperature materials for continuous operation at 1300 ºC (2372 ºF) in a stand-alone material test environment or at 1800 ºC (3272 ºF) with coatings and cooling. University of Virginia. could increase the thermal efficiency by approximately 7%.

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Learn How the President-Elect Candidates Plan to Improve IEEE

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Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers ' Conference Program Committee and has published articles in several of the organization's journals. I believe that IEEE should be open to all technologists and that we should create a safe environment that supports our members to be their best selves. Virginia Tech.

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What the Well-Dressed Spacecraft Will Be Wearing

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This coming February, the Cygnus NG-17 spacecraft will launch from NASA Wallops, in Virginia, on a routine resupply mission to the International Space Station. Our lab, the Responsive Environments Group at MIT, has been working for well over a decade on embedding distributed sensor networks into flexible substrates.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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This article was first published as “Inside the PARC: the ‘information architects’.” The Open Environment and How It Changed PARC started with a small nucleus—perhaps fewer than 20 people. If a page had no uppercase Qs in it, the character generator would economize on internal memory by not generating a pattern for a capital “Q.”

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The EV Transition Explained: Reshaping Labor Markets

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employees engaged in motor vehicle parts manufacturing, about one-quarter—nearly 150,000—make components for internal combustion powertrains.”. For instance, an in-depth study by Princeton University’s Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment assessed different U.S. could decrease anywhere from 131,000 to 210,000 positions.

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Eavesdropping on the Brain with 10,000 Electrodes

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How does our neural system map the position of an individual within a physical environment? This article appears in the June 2022 print issue as “Eavesdropping on the Brain.”. How do physiological needs produce motivational drives, such as thirst and hunger? What regulates behaviors essential to survival? A Fab and a Vision.

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Fast, Efficient Neural Networks Copy Dragonfly Brains

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Initially, I worked in Matlab simply because that was the coding environment I was already using. The dragonfly does not have an internal gyroscope (that we know of) that will maintain a constant orientation and provide a reference regardless of how the dragonfly turns. My three-layer neural network exists as a software simulation.

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