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Celebrating the Life of Columbia Professor Stephen Unger

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in EE from MIT in 1953 and 1957, respectively. Unger’s personal blog, “ Ends and Means ,” addressed ethical questions surrounding education, electronic voting, robotics, and other topics. He went on to earn a master’s degree and Ph.D. He joined the technical staff at Bell Labs in Whippany, N.J.

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China’s GAC Debuts Ammonia-Powered Car Engine

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Amogy, a startup founded by four MIT graduates, even revealed an ammonia-electric semi truck at the start of 2023 and had previously modified a John Deere tractor to run on the fuel. MAN Energy Solutions has been working on a two-stroke motor it expects to be commercially available for maritime applications by 2024.

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Learn About the Candidates Running for 2023 President-Elect

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He is a regular contributor on digital storage for the Forbes blog and other news outlets. In 1989 and 1990, he was a visiting research scientist at MIT. He is the author of Digital Storage in Consumer Electronics: The Essential Guide , which is in its second edition. In 2019 he was IEEE-USA president as well as IEEE Region 6 director.

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The Tremendous VR and CG Systems—of the 1960s

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from MIT in 1963. www.youtube.com As an undergraduate engineering student at Carnegie Tech (today’s Carnegie Mellon University), and then as a graduate student at Caltech (before he moved to MIT after one year), Sutherland continued to design and build more advanced light-seeking robots. At MIT, Sutherland met with Wesley A.

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T he Plug In Partners Blog celebrates its first year of publishing this month. must not be 'hostage' to foreign oil February 20, 2006 MIT researchers invent new hybrid car battery February 7, 2006 Re-thinking the world's economic future February 7, 2006 100-M.P.G.

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Is NRDC drinking the hydrogen kool-aid?

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The following guest blog post is by Earl Killian who often blogs at Joe Romm's ClimateProgress.org. In his blog he writes: Originally conceived of in 1990, the California ZEV program has morphed over time from just an electric car mandate to incorporate a broad spectrum of clean, advanced technology vehicles, such as hybrids.

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The Creepy New Digital Afterlife Industry

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This article is adapted from the author’s new book , We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age (MIT Press, 2023). You slide on the somewhat unwieldy VR headset and choose the augmented-reality mode. The familiar walls of your bedroom briefly flicker in front of you. Your father appears. It’s before his diagnosis.