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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. Her father, a chemist, was on the team that first synthesized vitamin B1 at pharmaceutical company Merck in Charlotte, N.C. It is now available on the Engineering and Technology History Wiki. in Charlotte.

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President Obama announces two new public-private manufacturing innovation institutes; new manufacturing innovation institute competition

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The winning consortium, led by EWI and headquartered in the Detroit-area includes the following members: 34 Companies: ABS; AEM; ALCOA Technology; Boeing; Comau; Easom Automation; EWI; Fabrisonic; Flash Bainite Steel; GE; Honda North American Services; Huys; Infinium; Inc.; ThermoCalc; TIMET; Trumpf, Inc.; UTRC; Wolf Robotics.

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Tomorrow’s AI Will Reason Like Humans, IBM Watson Developer Predicts

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Today the IEEE Life Fellow is CTO of Pryon , a startup in Raleigh, N.C., The company's programs aim to make companies more productive, reducing costs and eliminating inefficiencies. for 33 years before he joined Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., DAVID NAHAMOO. Nahamoo worked with Flanagan throughout his career.

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LA-based SMLC to lead new DOE Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute; ~$800M for 5 new hub competitions

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The Institute will focus on solving the cross-cutting manufacturing challenges that stand in the way of producing new synthetic tissues and organs—such as improving the availability, reproducibility, accessibility, and standardization of manufacturing materials, technologies, and processes to create tissue and organ products.

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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On 12 August 1981, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in midtown Manhattan, IBM unveiled the company's entrant into the nascent personal computer market: the IBM PC. Other companies, including Apple and Tandy Corp. The company stumbled badly, its bureaucratic approach to product development no match for a fast-moving field.

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NC Transportation Center

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I t's fair to say that the plug in hybrid ( watch video ) was born in California at UC Davis through the vision and tenacity of Andy Frank; but now, as the idea and the technology begins to mature and spread, another State and another University is joining the effort: Here's the story from Channel Nine news : N.C.

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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

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Some of these vehicles may be available for demonstrations using the available contact info. University of Manitoba by Hymotion, April 2007 (Winnipeg, Manitoba), contact eric_bibeau@umanitoba.ca Green Car Company , "Green Machine," Manzanita Micro (PiPrius), April 2007 (Kirkland, WA), contact: greg@greencarco.com.

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