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JANUARY 27, 2021

These universities join MIT, Stanford and the University of Michigan which have worked with TRI over the last five years to expand the body of research into artificial intelligence (AI) with the goal of amplifying the human experience. —Eric Krotkov, TRI Chief Science Officer, who leads the university research program.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2014

As we kept inching closer to our carbon-reduction goal, we wanted to support colleges going above and beyond to help combat climate change, and open the door for other companies to contribute to such campus clean energy projects. — Greg Martin, executive director of sustainability, General Motors.

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DECEMBER 4, 2018

NanoGraf’s technology enhances the performance of battery materials via a proprietary graphene-wrapped silicon anode originally invented at Northwestern University. Our new company, NanoGraf Corporation, embodies our vision to create materials solutions that will change the battery industry. million investment.

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MAY 1, 2024

It was such a novel concept that when von Miller approached the Carl Zeiss company in Jena, Germany, to manufacture such a projector, they initially rebuffed him. In 1924, public demonstrations of the Zeiss planetarium took place on the roof of the company’s factory in Jena, Germany. He called it a “classroom under the heavens.”

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

The NNCI sites will provide researchers from academia, government, and companies large and small with access to university user facilities with leading-edge fabrication and characterization tools, instrumentation, and expertise within all disciplines of nanoscale science, engineering and technology. million each per year.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2021

He earned a bachelor's degree in biology in 2007 from Loyola University in Chicago. Two years later he was accepted into the Medical Scholars Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Its battery recharges in an hour, the company says. MAKING PROSTHETIC LIMBS ACCESSIBLE. and a Ph.D.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2013

In Atlanta, Nissan workplace outreach has resulted in more than 100 LEAF sales to Southern Company employees. Energy companies have been a major proponent in developing the West Coast Electric Highway that has helped to educate consumers and raise awareness for EVs. Chicago and Denver (tied).

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FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The projects would also help improve air quality in underserved areas of major American cities, including New York, Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago, San Francisco, Oakland, and Salt Lake City. Utah State University: Wasatch Front Multi-Modal Corridor Electrification Plan - Greater Salt Lake City Region.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Eastman Renewable Materials, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Eastman Chemical Company, has acquired the assets of TetraVitae Bioscience, Inc., located in Chicago, Ill. TetraVitae is a developer of renewable chemicals, including bio-based n-butanol and acetone. Earlier post.) Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

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MARCH 4, 2013

The Advanced Solutions Group (ASG) of Navitas Systems LLC, which recently acquired A123 Systems’ government business ( earlier post ), has become affiliated with the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR) ( earlier post ).

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DECEMBER 13, 2012

The company believes that implementation of this new technology will significantly reduce Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) emissions from oil sands froth treatment tailings as well as recover valuable products being lost in tailings ponds. Peng of the University of Saskatchewan. Dr. Moran also collaborated with Dr. D.-Y.

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MARCH 11, 2022

But if the company succeeds in ramping the production of its 4680 cells, Tesla could very well pave the way for electric vehicles to become the dominant form of personal transportation in the decades to come. Without 4680 cells, Tesla’s efforts to create an affordable car at a price point beneath the Model 3 would likely be for naught.

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JUNE 9, 2022

The IEEE Life Fellow and Fulbright scholar held a variety of positions during his 25 years with the company, working his way up from instrumentation specialist to director. After he was discharged, he continued his education at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. When the company wouldn’t let him skip the training, he quit.

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MAY 27, 2023

For more than a century, utility companies have used electromechanical relays to protect power systems against damage that might occur during severe weather, accidents, and other abnormal conditions. Schweitzer, an IEEE Life Fellow, is his company’s president and chief technology officer. Then, in 1977, Edmund O. I was hooked. “I

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MARCH 29, 2022

Picard was chief executive of Raytheon and helped the company become a leader in tactical missile systems. While there, he taught a course on radar at Northeastern University , in Boston. in engineering from Johns Hopkins University , in Baltimore. Behnke spent his entire career at Commonwealth Edison in Chicago.

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JULY 13, 2023

Goodenough, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Texas at Austin , authored more than 800 technical papers during his career. Following World War II, he pursued a doctorate in physics at the University of Chicago. Nobel Laureate John B. He and his colleagues were recently granted a U.S.

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MARCH 31, 2023

Some auto companies have incorporated car sharing elements into their new business enterprises. Some small players were gobbled up by bigger companies. The success of one-way car sharing services is prompting more companies to consider offering this service model. Some big players have jumped in and then retreated.

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AUGUST 6, 2021

The company's machines have seen a steady decline in the number of connections despite the fact its own measure of progress, which it dubs "quantum volume" , gives significant weight to high connectivity. The trade-off IBM has made makes sense though, says Fred Chong , a professor at the University of Chicago, who studies quantum computing.

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JULY 30, 2023

And yet this transformative invention took nearly two decades to make it out of the lab, with numerous companies in the United States, Europe, and Asia considering the technology and yet failing to recognize its potential. Moreover, company executives thought Whittingham’s concept was unlikely to ever be broadly successful.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2021

He left the company in 1986 and founded Communications Research, a consulting service for manufacturers, in Palo Alto, Calif. in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Vienna. Axelrod worked as an engineer for a number of companies in various industries. He earned a bachelor's degree and Ph.D.

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OCTOBER 26, 2021

Yes, I am well aware that the computational theory of mind is a deeply entrenched one, starting with the work in the early 1940s of Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts in Chicago, and then later at MIT, where they were joined by Jerome Lettvin and Humberto Maturana. Maybe conscious experiences come from some kind of self-organization.

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DECEMBER 30, 2023

Pedott also discovered that the company behind it was a sham, at least according to his oral history with the National Museum of American History. After Pedott acquired the patent, which was assigned to his company, Joseph Enterprises, he hired Carlile Stevens and Dale Reamer to get the device to work. Eventually, they filed for a U.S.

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OCTOBER 26, 2021

Yes, I am well aware that the computational theory of mind is a deeply entrenched one, starting with the work in the early 1940s of Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts in Chicago, and then later at MIT, where they were joined by Jerome Lettvin and Humberto Maturana. Maybe conscious experiences come from some kind of self-organization.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2012

The company has a goal of making the vehicle fleet 20% more efficient by 2020. Among the company’s initiatives to improve fuel economy are: Upcoming addition of 87 all-electric trucks to its green fleet bringing the all-electric vehicle count to 130. FedEx Express, a unit of FedEx Corp., announced that its vehicle fleet was 16.6%

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OCTOBER 21, 2020

Laurens Mets at the University of Chicago. In 2019 the company opened a third pilot plant at the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) with support from SoCalGas. The strain of archaea used in Electrochaea’s P2G process has been adapted for industrial application by Prof.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2018

Darling, who has worked at the laboratory for more than 15 years, is also a scientist at the Center for Nanoscale Materials and a senior scientist at the University of Chicago. —Seth Darling, co-inventor of Oleo Sponge and director of the Institute for Molecular Engineering at Argonne.

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JANUARY 13, 2011

Participants in the project include Cargill, Johnston Timber, Aquaflow, Blue Marble Energy, National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Michigan Technological University. GTI Biorenewables: Vision, Challenges, Programs, and Status (presentation Chicago Chapter AIChE 15 September 2009). CRI/Criterion Inc., from Biomass (BIOMASS 2010).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2009

NAATBatt plans to develop a large scale “flexible manufacturing” facility that will contract to manufacture Li-Ion battery cells of various chemistries, formats and designs for multiple battery companies. The alliance is modeled after Sematech, which was formed by US computer-chip companies in 1987 to compete with the Japanese.

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AUGUST 3, 2014

The company was subsequently acquired by state-owned United Shipbuilding Corporation and Rosenergoatom signed a new contract in December 2012 with Baltiysky Zavod shipyard for the completion of the floating NPP.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2009

The Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) was selected as the winner of the $1.3 The Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) was selected as the winner of the $1.3 Consolidated Edison Company of New York. University of Hawaii at Manoa-Hawaii Natural Energy Institute.

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AUGUST 6, 2014

Stoyanov (ORNL); Brad VanDerWege (Ford Motor Company); Daniel Lee (Convergent Science, Inc); Eric Pomraning (Convergent Science, Inc); Keith Richards (Convergent Science, Inc); and P. Schulten, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Bernardi (University of Illinois). Chicago / Argonne National Laboratory.

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JULY 29, 2022

Unfortunately, only viewers in a few select markets—Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco—could actually see the show in color. In 2007 Forbes did a ranking of the top 25 fictional companies ; Spacely Space Sprockets, where George Jetson worked, came in dead last, with estimated annual sales of US $1.3

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JUNE 21, 2016

Texas A&M University will lead the Gulf Coast center—a region anchored in the chemical, oil and gas sectors—and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) will lead the Northeast center, where glass, ceramic and microelectronic manufacturing has a strong presence. Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute (Chicago, IL).

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AUGUST 26, 2009

City of Chicago, Department of Environment’s Chicago Area Alternative Fuels Deployment Project. The project will deploy 554 alternative fuel and hybrid electric vehicles and install 153 alternative fueling and electric vehicle charging stations throughout the Chicago region. Total DOE award: $14,999,905.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2022

“A lot of people were confused by the point-contact transistor,” says Thomas Misa, former director of the Charles Babbage Institute for the History of Science and Technology, at the University of Minnesota. Employees from his company would go on to found Fairchild Semiconductor, and then Intel.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2011

In response to federal policies to boost gas mileage, manufacturers have changed vehicle weights, improved tire-rolling resistance and added aerodynamic features to push fuel-economy rates past government-mandated thresholds.

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OCTOBER 24, 2020

Cicala is a non-resident scholar at the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC) and an assistant professor of economics at Tufts University.

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