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Radar Technology Pioneer Merrill Skolnik Dies at 94

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While there, he taught a course on radar at Northeastern University , in Boston. in engineering from Johns Hopkins University , in Baltimore. He earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1945 from Northwestern University , in Evanston, Ill. He taught at the university until he retired in 2000.

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We Can Now Train Big Neural Networks on Small Devices

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Heretofore, memory-reduction systems used one of those two tricks or, says Shishir Patil , a computer scientist at the University of California, Berkeley , and the lead author of the paper describing the innovation, they were combined using “heuristics” that are “suboptimal,” often requiring a lot of energy.

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Berkeley Lab researchers develop Bchain protocol to make blockchain more robust

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Over the past few years, researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), University of California at Davis (UC Davis) and University of Stavanger in Norway have developed a new protocol, called BChain, which makes blockchain even more robust. —Duan et al.

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Letting in the Light

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Within a few years, outreach efforts by these chapter members at local electric vehicle (EV) events had grown to include presentations at conferences around the country, and eventually around the world. His presentation won him an engineering scholarship to Duke University.

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

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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. The first node of the ARPANET was installed at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1969. But the ARPANET didn’t take off immediately.

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Summer Update

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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 press conference will be at 3:00 pm at Austin City Hall. New partners in recent months include: Denton, TX., Keene, N.H., Irvine, CA.,