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Michigan State University Receives $2.5M ARPA-E Award to Build Wave Disc Engine/Generator for Series Hybrid Applications

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Schematic model of a wave disk engine, showing combustion and shockwaves within the channels. Researchers from Michigan State University have been awarded $2.5 Researchers from Michigan State University have been awarded $2.5 The Wave Disc Engine. Source: MSU. Click to enlarge. Norbert Müller.

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Q&A With Co-Creator of the 6502 Processor

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The surge of interest in retrocomputing has led to folks once again swapping tips on how to write polished games using the 6502 assembly code, with new titles being released for the Atari , BBC Micro , and other machines. The Institute : What drew you into engineering? He was the system engineer, and I was the semiconductor engineer.

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Rule of the Robots: Warning Signs

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There is increasing evidence, however, that this primary engine of progress is beginning to sputter out. A 2019 analysis by researchers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, found that training a very large deep learning system could potentially emit as much carbon dioxide as five cars over their full operational lifetimes.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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I would say that electricity is a vastly superior fuel for the light vehicle fleet,” said Willett Kempton , a professor and alternative energy specialist at the University of Delaware. “We have 10,000 engineers out there every day, installing and servicing boilers,&# he added. “There’s a relationship of trust already.

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Freddy the Robot Was the Fall Guy for British AI

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Freddy II was completed in 1973 as one of a series of research robots developed by Donald Michie and his team at the University of Edinburgh during the 1960s and 70s. University of Edinburgh More people joined the team to build Freddy Mark 1.5, Stuart Sutherland of the University of Sussex and Roger M.

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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Why pay $40K for a GM volt… which will look nothing more than a Malibu anyway and only get 40 miles before the gasoline engine kicks in. The fuel engine on the Volt is used to run the generator to recharge the battery when a trip exceeds 40 miles, and it’s rage on a full tank is around 400 miles. — Goodbye 2.

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Tragedy Spurred the First Effective Land-Mine Detector

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By now, youd think a simple and safe way of locating and removing the devices wouldve been engineered. The Engineer Behind the Portable Mine Detector Before inventing his mine detector, Kosacki worked as an engineer and had developed tools to detect explosives for the Polish Armed Forces. But thats not the case. He died in 1990.

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