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Boeing and Kitty Hawk form strategic partnership on electric urban air mobility

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headquartered in Mountain View, California, builds electric transportation solutions to free people from traffic and decrease carbon footprint. Sebastian Thrun, Kitty Hawk’s CEO, was the founder of X (previously Google X), where he led the development of the self-driving car, Google Glass, and other projects. Kitty Hawk Corp.,

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Pioneer of Google’s Data Centers Dies at 58

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Luiz André Barroso Data center pioneer Senior member, 59; died 16 September An engineer at Google for more than 20 years, Barroso is credited with designing the company’s warehouse-size data centers. in computer engineering in 1996 from the University of Southern California. He then moved to Los Angeles, where he earned a Ph.D.

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Autonomous driving visionary Dr. Lawrence Burns joining Neural Propulsion Systems as Executive Advisor; L4/L5 autonomous driving

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He has also advised numerous companies—including Google Self-Driving Cars/Waymo for over a decade. After leaving GM in 2009, Dr. Burns was a Professor of Engineering Practice at the University of Michigan (2011-2015), and Director of the Program for Sustainable Mobility at Columbia University (2010-2014).

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Ford to begin autonomous vehicle testing on California roads; Silicon Valley Lab accelerates Smart Mobility Plan

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Fully autonomous Ford Fusion Hybrid sedans will begin testing on California streets next year, as Ford Research and Innovation Center Palo Alto continues growing. Ford is officially enrolled in the California Autonomous Vehicle Tester Program to test autonomous vehicles on public roads. Click to enlarge.

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Tesla FSD beta team gains former Waymo research scientist

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Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta has gained its latest member, who joins the team after working at Waymo, the driverless ride-hailing system being developed by Google parent company Alphabet. Former Waymo Research Scientist and Manager Charles R.

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UCI-led study finds crowd-sourced crash alerts beat corresponding Highway Patrol reported crashes

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A new University of California, Irvine-led pilot study finds , on average, Waze “crash alerts” occur two minutes and 41 seconds prior to their corresponding California Highway Patrol (CHP)-reported crash. These minutes could mean the difference between life and death. A paper on the work is published in JAMA Surgery.

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IEEE Honors Pioneering Engineers

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MADNI University of California, Los Angeles “For pioneering contributions to the development and commercialization of innovative sensing and systems technologies, and for distinguished research leadership.” MISHRA University of California, Santa Barbara “For contributions to the development of gallium nitride-based electronics.”

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