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How the Computer Graphics Industry Got Started at the University of Utah

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Their groundbreaking research, conducted at the University of Utah , in Salt Lake City, and at their company, Evans and Sutherland , helped jump-start the computer graphics industry. A ceremony was held at the university on 24 March to recognize the computer graphics and visualization techniques with an IEEE Milestone.

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EPA awards $6M in research funding to improve air quality models

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Research supported by these grants will improve air quality models—specifically the component of models that represent how chemicals react in the atmosphere (known as “chemical mechanisms”). Columbia University to develop tools that will improve the computational efficiency of chemical mechanisms for use in air quality models.

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A New Fund Helps IEEE HKN Student Chapters Flourish

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University chapters are the lifeblood of IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu , the organization’s honor society. There are 269 chapters at universities worldwide. The chapters engaged in a variety of virtual and in-person activities including preuniversity functions, as well as joint activities with IEEE student branches.

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Street network patterns reveal global trend towards increasing urban sprawl

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New research from McGill University and the University of California, Santa Cruz has found that the local streets of the world’s cities are becoming less connected, a global trend that is driving urban sprawl and discouraging the use of public transportation. —Barrington-Leigh and Millard-Ball. 1905232116. 0223078.

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Energy Harvesting for Wearable Technology Steps Up

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“Energy is something we take for granted, because we just plug things into the wall, and it feels as inevitable as air. Wei Gao/Caltech California Institute of Technology’s Wei Gao developed a self-powering “electronic skin.” Personalized health care could revolutionize traditional medical practice,” Gao says. milliwatts.

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Vitruivan crowd-sourcing funding for novel biofuel from sewage treatment bio-solids

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The technology has received a California Energy Commission (CEC) grant to develop the process for production of EEB (also called E-xtra by Vitruvian) from WWTP (waste water treatment plant) biosolids and a National Science Foundation (NSF) SBIR Phase 1 grant to characterize EEB as a fuel additive/oxygenate for both gasoline and diesel.

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How to make heavy-duty electric trucks work in practice

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Among its first announced customers, back in December 2017, was Pepsi, which reserved 100 of the trucks and plans to use them in the California regions of Modesto and Sacramento. Many were covered in detail during a day of presentations and site visits for partners and media held this past August in Ontario, California.

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