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Elon Musk looking to found STEM school, including University: Bloomberg

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According to a report from Bloomberg on Wednesday citing a filing with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Musk is looking to start a STEM-based primary and secondary school in Austin, with a $100 million investment. Elon Musk to attend Italy’s ‘Atreju’ politicial conference next week What are your thoughts?

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UT Austin researcher awarded $15M for switchgrass traits studies

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A researcher at The University of Texas at Austin will receive two grants totaling $15 million to study switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ), with a focus on how it can become a sustainable source of bioenergy. Another part of the grant will allow the researchers to continue work done through a previous $4.6-million hallii var.

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Self-Destructing Circuits and More Security Schemes

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Last week at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), researchers introduced several technologies to fight even the sneakiest hack attacks. And attackers may exploit these side-channels to gain access to sensitive information,” said Sirish Oruganti a doctoral student at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Kicking It With Robots

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In July of 2010, I traveled to Singapore to take care of my then 6-year-old son Henry while his mother attended an academic conference. When I told Guizzo I was going to be in Singapore, he told me that RoboCup, an international robot soccer competition, was going on at the same time. But I was really there for the robots.

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Emmy Award Winner’s Algorithms Bring High-Quality Video to Your TV

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For nearly 40 years, he has been a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Texas Cockrell School of Engineering , in Austin. Bovik enjoyed the course so much that he joined Huang’s Image Formation and Processing Group , part of the university’s Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology.

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Exploding Chips, Meta's AR Hardware, and More

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Cass: Sam, you recently attended the Big Kahuna Conference of the semiconductor research world, ISSCC. Moore: Well, besides being a difficult-to-say acronym, it actually stands for the IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference. This is the conference that’s about the circuits you can make from them. Moore: Yeah.

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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Remote sensing technologies to tackle earth science problems In 1980 Crawford joined the mechanical engineering department at the University of Texas at Austin, staying for 25 years. As part of that effort, she installed and operated a receiving station to acquire and analyze data from the U.S. Then you are part of a community.”