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Arizona State University Professor’s Work to Stabilize the Grid Pays Off

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He is a professor of power systems engineering in the Fulton program at Arizona State University , in Tempe. He was part of an IEEE task force that in 2020 issued a report that described how equipment used for storing energy, transferring power over long distances, and integrating renewable energy could impact power system stability.

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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. This tribute is an excerpted version of an article dedicated to his memory written by three of his colleagues: IEEE Member Jae Jeong Hwang, Zoran M. is a professor of electrical engineering, also at the University of Belgrade. He was a member of the university’s.

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How Vannevar Bush Engineered the 20th Century

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To this day, Bush’s article—titled “As We May Think”—and his subsequent elaborations of networked information appliances are credited with shaping what would become the personal computer and the World Wide Web. And, as mentioned, he published that pivotal Atlantic article.

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Gravity Batteries, Green Hydrogen, and a Thorium Reactor for China

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No battery is perfect, however, so engineers keep pushing for new and improved ways to store those electrons. The gravity batteries described in this story lift giant weights in the air or up mine shafts to store excess electricity, releasing the weights later on to recover the stored energy.

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AI Is Helping to Stop Animal Poaching and Food Insecurity

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Although she enjoyed coding, she decided to pursue a degree in biology at Tsinghua University , in Beijing. She graduated in 2011 with a bachelor’s degree, then went to the United States to pursue a doctorate at the University of Southern California , in Los Angeles. www.youtube.com. IEEE MEMBERSHIP.

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Landsat Proved the Power of Remote Sensing

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As an example, he noted the United States was in the process of developing new satellites to survey Earth’s natural resources. The satellite then transmitted the signal to a ground station; if no station was within range, it stored the data on magnetic tape for later transmission. billion in today’s dollars).

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. Good-bye, floppy disk Before the invention of the thumb drive, computer users stored and transported their files using floppy disks.

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