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This USC Professor is Developing an Artificial Brain

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And Parker, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Southern California has delivered. This article is based on that interview. At the time, her father was a professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. It is now available on the Engineering and Technology History Wiki. in Charlotte.

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IEEE Power & Energy Society President Dies at 69

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He worked at Georgia Power in Atlanta for more than 20 years, and he was a principal research engineer at the National Electric Energy Testing Research and Applications Center at Georgia Tech for more than 25 years, becoming NEETRAC's associate director. He also served on its switch gear committee. Mason Lamar Williams III.

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Video Friday: Such a Showoff

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student at Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute. NASA ] This GRASP on Robotics talk is by Frank Dellaert at Georgia Tech, on “Factor Graphs for Perception and Action.” In this talk I will revisit some of those successes, also discussed in depth in a recent review article. Kaist ] A lonely badminton player’s best friend.

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UC San Diego hires top robotics expert to lead Contextual Robotics Institute

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Henrik Christensen, one of the most influential robotics researchers in the world, is joining the University of California San Diego. Christensen is leaving his post as executive director of the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines at the Georgia Institute of Technology to come to UC San Diego. He earned a master’s and Ph.D.

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The Transistor of 2047: Expert Predictions

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Philip Wong , an IEEE Fellow, professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University, and former vice president of corporate research at TSMC. But the idea that the transistor of 2047 is already sitting in a lab somewhere isn’t universally shared. Salahuddin, for one, doesn’t think it’s been invented yet.

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Roadmap shows how to improve lignocellulosic biofuel biorefining with high-value products from isolated lignin

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A new review article in the journal Science highlights emerging opportunities to increase the transformation of lignin to value-added products—i.e., lignin valorization. —Ragauskas et al. Ragauskas, et al., 2014) “Lignin Valorization: Improving Lignin Processing in the Biorefinery.”

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New high-performance cathode materials for low-temperature solid oxide fuel cells

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Korea), Georgia Institute of Technology, and Dong-Eui University (S. The power density of a commercialized low-temperature SOFC system developed by researchers at the University of Maryland and Redox Power is also more than 2W cm -2 , earlier post.). Scientific Reports 3, Article number: 2426 doi: 10.1038/srep02426.

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