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JULY 9, 2022

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. MIT didn’t have many graduate students at the time,” Zadeh recalled, “so it was fairly easy to get in, even though the University of Teheran had no track record.”. “No

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MAY 20, 2022

Larson worked as a power engineer for Hughes Aircraft , IBM , the Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International ), and other companies. He earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1960 from MIT. Larson was a member of the IEEE Heritage Circle—a cumulative giving donor recognition group.

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JUNE 28, 2023

As a member of the industrial engineering and operations research group, she developed advanced methods for image analysis and applications for mapping and monitoring land cover using satellite imagery. One was an MIT electrical engineering student to whom she had given one of her old spectrometers to start his research.

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DECEMBER 31, 2023

And yet more air conditioning exacerbates the very problem—climate change—that is driving the need for more air conditioning. The company is one of a growing group targeting grid-scale applications, particularly for solar installations. What to do? Two words: heat pumps. meters long, weigh 62 kilograms, and store 3 kilowatt-hours.

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AUGUST 16, 2021

government established a Supersonic Transport Advisory Committee, which began discussions with international partners about building a supersonic airliner. The best-funded of this group is Denver-based Boom Technology (which also goes by the trade name Boom Supersonic). In 1956, nine years after Yeager's history-making flight, the U.K.

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MAY 17, 2022

A Portable Desalination System Makes Water Potable—Without a Filter Payal Dhar (Freelance Blogger) MIT researchers have developed a prototype of a suitcase-size device that can turn seawater into safe drinking water. With climate change exacerbating water scarcity globally, seawater desalination is stepping in to fill the void.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Volkswagen Group engineers are currently working on electrifying up to 40 different models, ranging from all battery-electric drives to plug-in hybrids and even fuel cell systems, he said. For the medium term, the Group strongly believes that the plug-in hybrids will be the leading alternative. —Martin Winterkorn.

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JANUARY 23, 2023

Perhaps, but getting the vast majority of 111 million US households who own one or more light duty internal combustion vehicles to switch to EVs is going to take time. The entry level F-150 XL with an internal combustion engine has risen in the past year from about $29,990 to $33,695 currently. Carlos Tavares, CEO of Stellantis.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Chicago Tribune ) DaimlerChrysler 12/22/06 [DaimlerChrysler Group research chief Thomas Weber] played down the importance for passenger cars of plug-in hybrid technology that is getting lots of attention in the U.S. But we want to give them cause to continue to press forward." ( MIT Technology Review ). GM Press Release ).

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EV Adoption

MARCH 15, 2021

Unlike Kia’s other electric vehicles to date, the EV6 (which was called ‘CV’ while under development) isn’t based on an existing internal-combustion or hybrid model. The company declined to say where in the United States it is considering a new battery manufacturing plant. – March 11, via Reuters/Automotive News.

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