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BMW, Intel, Mobileye: 40 autonomous BMWs to be on road by 2H 2017; standards-based open platform for autonomy

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Revealing this at a podium discussion held during a joint press conference at CES, the companies further explained that the BMW 7 Series will employ advanced Intel and Mobileye technologies during global trials starting in the US and Europe. Earlier post.)

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Ford and Intel demonstrate in-car personalization with perceptual computing; Project Mobii

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Ford and Intel are researching new opportunities for the connected car, including giving drivers the ability to remotely peer into their car using a smartphone, or a vehicle that could identify its owner using facial recognition software. Connected vehicles Driver Assistance Systems Safety Vehicle Systems' Intel RealSense.

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Ukrainian Volunteers Use 3D Printers to Save Lives

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Meanwhile, the logistics of delivering expensive printing materials are currently more difficult to solve than for more standard 3D-print composites such as acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) or PETG. Personal connections are one of my primary sources of information about what is happening in Ukraine.

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ZF to present new 9-speed automatic transmission for front-transverse drive; fuel savings up to 16% compared to 6-speeds

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ZF 9HP.The 9 HP construction kit is designed for different starting elements, hybrid drive, a stop-start function, and all-wheel drive. The new 9-speed (9HP) can deliver fuel savings of up to 16% compared to today’s standard 6-speed automatic transmissions in front-transverse installations. Click to enlarge.

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MIT’s Copenhagen Bike Wheel

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The wheel, designed to be easily interchangeable with any standard bicycle’s rear wheel, also offers a variety of extra functions including real-time environmental sensing capabilities. A close-up of the Copenhagen Wheel, from MIT’s SENSEable City Lab. Click to enlarge. Everything is controlled by your feet,” Ratti explains.

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Radar Imaging Could Be the Key to Monitoring Climate Change

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As a child, Alberto Moreira discovered his passion for electronics from the kits for exploring science, technology, engineering, and mathematics that his father bought him every month. The kits taught him not only about electronics but also about chemistry and physics. He says IEEE has played an important role throughout his career.

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The First Million-Transistor Chip: the Engineers’ Story

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The designers of the floating-point adder and multiplier units made the logic for rounding off numbers conform to IEEE standards, which slowed performance. s computers, for example, reject those standards to boost performance.) Once the power pin was connected, the chip ran easily at 40 MHz. Cray Research Inc.’s

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