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Velodyne launches VLS-128, the world’s highest resolution LiDAR for autonomous vehicles; successor to the HDL-64

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With the VLS-128 LiDAR, there are billions of data points to analyze a dynamic, changing environment to determine safety —Marta Hall, Velodyne’s President and Chief Business Development Officer. Due to its 905nm technology, it operates in dry climates and wet environments, and is based on mass-produced CMOS semiconductor technologies.

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Meet Your Next Car At Plug-In 2009

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Greetings From Plugged In San Jose. climate change electric cars environment fossil fuels plug-in cars renewable energy. Don’t miss Plug-In 2009 if you’d like to get on board the Cluetrain before it leaves the station without you. Drive Clean.

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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

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No doubt professor Zadeh’s enthusiasm for fuzziness has been reinforced by the prevailing political climate in the United States—one of unprecedented permissiveness,” said R. Favorite periodicals Four newspapers daily ( The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, The Wall St. Kalman in 1972.

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Is aviation the best application yet for hydrogen fuel cells?

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Now we have a test flight program through two flight prototypes in two countries, the US and the UK, which is actually quite significant because the regulatory environments are very different, so we had to go through both countries’ regulatory environments to get things done. In those environments, batteries work pretty well.

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Solar Powered Greenius Producing Massive South Bay Energy

Creative Greenius

As our climate change crisis worsens and spins out of control with each passing day there’s no time to spare for those of us whose job it is to educate and motivate our fellow citizens to actions that cut our greenhouse gas emissions. ELECTRIC CARS ARE A CORE SOLUTION TO CLIMATE CHANGE - NO PLUG? Most have no idea.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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San Jose, Calif., Researchers were working on picture telephones, electronic aids for joggers, computer controls that gave tactile feedback, graphical environments akin to today’s virtual reality, digital sound synthesis, advanced personal computers, and software distribution via FM sidebands. Cambridge, Mass.;

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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Cischke, Ford senior vice president for sustainability, environment and safety engineering. "By San Jose Mercury News ). But I dont think that would contribute to the global environment, to reduce [global warming gas] emissions." ( Wall Street Journal ). By partnering with these two industries. Bloomberg News ).

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