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Remembering Ross Stone, an Influential Leader of IEEE Technical Activities

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He was president of Stoneware , a business he founded in San Diego that provided consulting and expert witness services related to antennas, propagation, and telecommunications. Communications and patent law expert Stone received a bachelor’s degree in 1967 in earth sciences from the University of California, San Diego.

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Study finds automatic monitors significantly improve the quality of pollution data reported in China

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—Michael Greenstone, Director of the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC) and co-author of the study. Along with government actions, an accurate picture of pollution has led more Chinese people to take important steps to protect their own health through the purchase of pollution masks and air filters.

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China Will Attempt First Carbon-Neutral Winter Olympics

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Powering them with clean energy sources won’t be difficult given China’s plentiful renewable capacity, says Michael Davidson , an engineering-systems and global-policy expert at the University of California, San Diego.

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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And in 2005, the Chinese computer maker Lenovo Group purchased IBM's PC business. At IBM plants in San Diego, Endicott, N.Y, Palmisano wanted to expand IBM's IT services business to Chinese corporations and government agencies. in modern European history from Florida State University. and Poughkeepsie, N.Y.,

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Researchers boost performance of lithium-rich cathode material 30-40% by creating oxygen vacancies

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Image courtesy of Laboratory for Energy Storage and Conversion, UC San Diego. —Shirley Meng, nanoengineering professor at the University of California San Diego and one of the principal investigators. Click to enlarge. The researchers prepared LR-NCM using a co-precipitation method.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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May, 2009 : Testifying at a public hearing conducted by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Stanford University professor Mark Jacobsen urged the EPA to incorporate black carbon into calculations of greenhouse gases. Earlier post.) ºC in 2020, and 2.3 ºC in 2050, as compared to 2000 temperatures.

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6G Is Years Away, but the Power Struggles Have Already Begun

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Past wireless generations coalesced around universally agreed-upon standards relatively smoothly. Mehdi Bennis , a professor of wireless communications at the University of Oulu, in Finland, home of the 6G Flagship research initiative, the next generation of wireless standards is quite open ended. At the moment, says.

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