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Yan Yao, Cullen Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Houston and co-corresponding author for the paper, said the groundbreaking results came from combining both an organic quinone cathode and a new tailored boron cluster-based electrolyte solution. Neither approach is practical.

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New research from a team at the University of Alberta, Canada, finds that Alberta’s oilsands industry is releasing more pollutants into the Athabasca River, its tributaries and its watershed than previously estimated. An open access article on their study was published online in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Coal trains and terminal operations add a significant amount of fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) pollution to urban areas—more so than other freight or passenger trains— according to a study conducted in Richmond, California, by the University of California, Davis. Resources Cite this article Ostro, B.,

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He is credited with coining the term computer architecture , which is used to describe how hardware and software are organized to make up a computer system and the operations which guide its function. Brooks left IBM in 1964 to found the University of North Carolina ’s computer science department in Chapel Hill. Brooks received a Ph.D.

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Barroso was born in Brazil and earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in 1989 in electrical engineering from Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. in computer engineering in 1996 from the University of Southern California. Just weeks before he died, Barroso organized and led a weeklong trip to Brazil’s Pantanal wetlands.

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A research team led by the National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed an economical and industrially viable strategy to produce graphene. The research was conducted in collaboration with Fudan University and the findings were published in an open-access paper in Nature Communications.

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An international team of scientists from the UK, Germany and France have discovered how oxygen stops photosynthetic organisms such as green algae from producing hydrogen. Professor Fraser Armstrong, Oxford University, co-author. Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/ja905388j. Our work has revealed the mechanism of this process. 0905343106.

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The open-access quarterly journal from the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers publishes peer-reviewed articles on research in IEEE’s fields of interest. The digitization of the 5,000 articles—dating between 1909, when the publication launched, and 2008—took almost eight years to complete.

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Sulfides are common materials, but the MIT scientists are experimenting with them under extreme conditions such temperatures from 800 to 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit that are used in manufacturing plants but not in a typical university lab. Cite this article Stinn, C., Allanore, A. 2021) “Selective sulfidation of metal compounds.”

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The IEEE Board of Directors shapes the future direction of IEEE and is committed to ensuring IEEE remains a strong and vibrant organization—serving the needs of its members and the engineering and technology community worldwide—while fulfilling the IEEE mission of advancing technology for the benefit of humanity.

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A team at the University of Manchester (UK) has developed a doped graphene cathode for highly stable lithium-sulfur batteries. In an open access paper in the Nature journal Communications Chemistry , they report 100% charge capacity of Li-S batteries using the cathode material with 500 charge/discharge cycles at 0.5

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As 2023 IEEE president, it is my goal to work with all members—particularly our students, young professionals, and affinity committee members—to make IEEE a more successful and resilient global technical organization and for there to be global recognition of IEEE as a force for change. It’s natural for us to want to contribute.

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In fact, this manuscript is a sequel to an article published recently by our group characterizing in detail the chemical composition of the inhalable material whose health effects are investigated here. —de Oliveira Alves et al. The surviving cells suffered DNA damage, which may predispose them to the development of cancer in future.

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UNSW Sydney chemists have fabricated a new, inexpensive catalyst for water splitting based on an ultrathin nanosheet array of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) on different substrates. The resulting crystal structure of the MOF consists of alternating organic hydrocarbon and inorganic metal-oxygen-layers. Duan et al. Click to enlarge.

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Grove Award “for contributions to materials for nanoscale electronics and organic light-emitting devices.” She joined IBM Research in Zurich in 1998 while pursuing her doctorate in physics in collaboration with the University of Bayreuth , also in Germany. She has authored more than 150 publications and holds more than 60 patents.

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Musser’s original orrery was a hulking machine, standing over 2 meters tall and intended for use in museums and university classrooms. I first stumbled across Musser’s desktop orrery, called the Copernican Planetarium Model 500, during a visit to the Whipple Museum of the History of Science , at the University of Cambridge.

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It holds networking events, provides educational resources, and publishes career-related articles on its blog. The task force collaborates on organizing virtual and in-person events with IEEE groups including Women in Engineering and external organizations such as the International Renewable Energy Agency.

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Assumptions about oil’s influence on politics in the Middle East should be reversed, according to a new article from an expert at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. Instead of oil buttressing autocracy, the article argues that autocracy among oil exporters buttresses oil by encouraging consumption.

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COE will also work with various Universities and institutes to exchange their knowledge and excellence for EV skills and research. COE will also work with various Universities and institutes to exchange their knowledge and excellence for EV skills and research.

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The SetPoint implant is inserted beside the patient’s vagus nerve, which travels down from the brain to innervate the spleen and other vital organs. He later linked the effect to vagus nerve signals running into the spleen, a fist-size organ in the abdomen where immune cells are activated. Chris Philpot. National Institutes of Health.

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All over the world, startup companies, government agencies, universities, and airlines are collaborating to launch an entirely new category of aviation based on electric aircraft capable of both vertical takeoff and efficient horizontal flight. Nothing like this has ever been attempted on a large scale.

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To test the app, Tiwari contacted maternal health organizations. The organization launched its own project —the Maternal Mortality Prevention Program—to ensure pregnant people’s access to health monitoring. Reading articles published in Spectrum helped him discover that he wanted a career in technology, he says. “So

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The nonprofit “is such a cool organization, doing a really amazing thing, and I thought that maybe I could help.”. Although she enjoyed coding, she decided to pursue a degree in biology at Tsinghua University , in Beijing. You can find several of her articles in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. ATTENTION TO SAFETY.

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Larry Wackett, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Minnesota, has a paper in press in the journal Current Opinion in Biotechnology reviewing approaches to engineering microbes to produce advanced biofuels, including renewable hydrocarbons. Wackett is also lead investigator in a $2.2-million

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How should IEEE be organized to be most impactful? As a global organization, a considerable challenge of IEEE is that it supports a broad community. The ebb and flow of geopolitical tensions are likely to continue to increase—which will impact global organizations like ours. How will knowledge be acquired?

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The world saw the need for universal broadband connectivity for remote work, online education, telemedicine, entertainment, and social networking. IEEE Member Doreen Bogdan-Martin was elected as ITU secretary-general and took office on 1 January, becoming the first woman to lead the 155-year-old organization.

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The active volunteer held many high-level positions throughout the organization, including 1991–1992 IEEE Region 2 director. At the time of his death, he was a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Cleveland State University and served as dean of its engineering school.

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His first story, “ The Dangerous Dimension ,” was a light-hearted tale about a professor who could teleport anywhere in the universe simply by thinking “Equation C.” An abridged version of this article appears in the April 2024 print issue as “The Scientology Machine.” A human auditor interprets the device’s readings.

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Organized by John McCarthy , Marvin Minsky , Claude Shannon , and Nathaniel Rochester , it brought together a few dozen of the leading thinkers in AI, computer science, and information theory to map out future paths for investigation. But as Strickland notes in her October 2021 Spectrum article, a division was already forming in AI research.

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Even though scholarly output continues to grow and publishing can be expensive, profit margins of 35% and more suggest that the prices we must pay do not solely result from an increasing supply of new articles. Contact professional organizations to raise these issues (F). If not, consider resigning (F).

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Recently, however, another organism identified as A. Recently, however, another organism identified as A. The Cryptomycota was erected based on phylogenetic analyses of gene sequences of two isolates of Rozella (an unwalled endoparasite of fungi and fungal-like organisms) and environmental sample. —Letcher et al.

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The work was first conceived by Yan Yao, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Houston and postdoctoral fellow Hyun Deog Yoo in 2014; the project spanned several years and involved scientists from three universities and three national laboratories, working both experimentally and theoretically.

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A group of researchers at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), working in partnership with colleagues at the Brazilian Biorenewables National Laboratory (LNBR) in Campinas, São Paulo State, Brazil, have discovered that Trichoderma harzianum , a fungus found in the Amazon, produces an enzyme with the potential to play a key role in enzyme cocktails.

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Universal Display Corp. OLEDs—organic light-emitting diodes—convert electrical energy directly into photons. When heavy metals are added to the mix of organic compounds that make up OLEDs, Hack says, the spin states change, and even the triplet excitons emit light. The excess heat can eat away at a device’s life-span.

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During World War II, as personal science and engineering adviser to President Roosevelt, he led all research by civilians for the military and organized the Manhattan Project. The source of Bush's quotations is The Essential Writings of Vannevar Bush , edited by Zachary and published by Columbia University Press (2022). Compiled by G.

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When IEEE Spectrum published an article in February about blind people whose bionic vision systems had become obsolete and unsupported , it generated both attention and outrage. In the United States, the Repair Organization is promoting laws at both the federal and state level.

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This article is part of our special report Top Tech 2024. You don’t have to identify the people,” says data scientist Jonathan Weber of the University of Haute-Alsace , in Mulhouse, France, and coauthor of a review of video crowd analysis. This article appears in the January 2024 print issue. This time, people care.

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