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ARPA-E to award $27M for advanced nuclear reactor systems operational technology: GEMINA

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The GE Research team aims to reduce operations and maintenance (O&M) costs by moving from a time- to condition-based predictive maintenance framework, using GE Hitachi’s BWRX-300 boiling water reactor as the reference design. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: High-Fidelity Digital Twins for BWRX-300 Critical Systems - $ 1,787,065.

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NASA awards $16.5M to four teams for additional research into reducing aircraft fuel consumption, emissions and noise

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NASA refers to this time period as N+3, representing technology three generations more advanced than what is in service today. Under the new contracts, the teams will now develop concepts and models that can be tested in computer simulations, laboratories and wind tunnels. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Mass.,

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NSF awards $20 million to two new testbeds to support cloud computing applications and experiments

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Cloud computing refers to the practice of using a network of remote servers to store, manage and process data, rather than a local server or a personal computer. Other partners on CloudLab include Raytheon BBN Technologies, the University of Massachusetts Amherst and US Ignite, Inc.

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Rule of the Robots: Warning Signs

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A 2019 analysis by researchers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, found that training a very large deep learning system could potentially emit as much carbon dioxide as five cars over their full operational lifetimes.

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Machine Learning Shaking Up Hard Sciences, Too

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I felt very threatened by machine learning,” says Jesse Thaler , a theoretical particle physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. More dramatically, machine learning has also forced physicists to reassess basic concepts. “I Initially, he says he felt like it jeopardized his human expertise classifying particle jets.

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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He was a theoretical guy, on leave from the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a stint at the nearby research-and-development company Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN). In 1965, Larry Roberts, then at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory , connected one computer in Massachusetts to another in California over a telephone line.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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Some of these real-world offspring, like the Apple Lisa computer and the Hewlett-Packard LaserJet printer, took many of their root concepts from PARC; others, like the Ada computer language and the Intel 1103 dynamic RAM chip, are less closely related. What an ideal concept that would be for Xerox.

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