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Letting in the Light

Electric Auto Association

All four men felt that LEVs could eventually be one of the most important forms of personal transportation, and had already been supporting that cause. As a senior in high school, Smith entered an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Enginners (IEEE) competition in Baltimore describing a project on computers and small EVs.

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Berkeley Lab researchers develop Bchain protocol to make blockchain more robust

Green Car Congress

A paper describing the basics of BChain was published in 2014 the Proceedings of the 18 th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems. Instead of one organization managing all of this information, blockchains store data via a network of personal computers. —Duan et al.

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The Do-or-Die Moments That Determined the Fate of the Internet

Cars That Think

Indeed, hyped-up product announcements at industry events like the Consumer Electronics Show (now CES ) and the Game Developers Conference have become regular features of the digital world. Once Kahn found a venue for the demo—at the International Conference on Computer Communications (ICCC), to be held in Washington, D.C.,

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Summer Update

Plug In Partners

They join Founding Members from these cities: Arlington, TX, Baltimore, Boulder, Dallas, Denver, Fort Worth, Irvine, CA, Los Angeles, Memphis, Philadelphia, Seattle, San Francisco, and Wenatchee, WA. The list of supporters/partners now includes links to the members’ web sites along with a contact person. Keene, N.H., Santa Barbara, CA.,