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Connect with Engineers Worldwide Through the IEEE App

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One of its many features is connecting members with other app users who have similar interests or affiliations, or live nearby. The app can recommend upcoming conferences and meetings based on your interests and location. The IEEE app can help. More than 1 million people are already using it.

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Inventor of AT&T’s Datakit, the First Virtual Connection Switch, Dies at 85

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telephone companies. He began his career at Ferranti , an electrical engineering and equipment company in Manchester, England. He left there in 1966 to join the University of Cambridge as an assistant director of research. Fraser held several leadership positions at the company during his 30 years there.

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Brain-Inspired Computer Approaches Brain-Like Size

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The announcement was made at the ISC High Performance conference in Hamburg, Germany. Hector Gonzalez, SpiNNcloud Systems SpiNNcloud Systems was founded in 2021 as a spinoff of the Dresden University of Technology. We’re basically trying to bridge the gap between brain inspiration and artificial systems.”

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How MIT’s Muriel Medard Pioneered the Universal Decoder

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As the head of the network coding group at the university’s Research Laboratory for Electronics , the IEEE Fellow led a team that created a silicon chip that eliminates the need for custom decoding hardware to spot signal errors. After graduating, she joined the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1998 as an assistant professor.

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GM to introduce at least 10 new New Energy Vehicles in China from 2016-2020; focus on autonomy, connectivity and sharing

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At a press conference in Shanghai, General Motors Chairman and CEO Mary Barra said that the company will introduce at least 10 new energy vehicles (NEVs) in China. China is playing a key role in the company’s strategy. According to Barra, customers do not just appreciate connected vehicles, they demand them.

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INRIX and Parkmobile bring end-to-end parking solution to the connected car

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a leading provider of dynamic connected car services worldwide, and Parkmobile, the leading provider of on-demand and prepaid mobile payments for on- and off- street parking and mobility solutions, announced a strategic partnership at the annual International Parking Institute (IPI) conference. INRIX, Inc.,

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Volvo Trucks, UMN partner with local fleets for extreme weather field testing of Volvo VNR Electric truck batteries

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Volvo Trucks North America is working with the University of Minnesota (UMN) to conduct extreme weather testing for its Class 8 VNR Electric model to analyze the impact of ambient temperature on a truck’s battery life. To date, the EMS tool has helped Murphy and HEB achieve more than a 20% increase in range.

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