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UK Government awards more than US$141M to 38 driverless and low carbon vehicle projects

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million); and the second round of the connected autonomous vehicles competition (CAV2) – 24 projects with support up to £31 million (US$40 million). million (US$21.5 The test bed program forms part of the government’s Industrial Strategy commitment to develop world-class CAV testing infrastructure.

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Leading the Way for More LGBTQ Inclusivity in STEM

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Agrawal found solace in advocacy and support organizations in London after moving there in 2005. She went on to form her own groups and lead diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts at the universities she worked for in London and Sydney. She joined City, University of London , as a research fellow working on computational photonics.

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Report: combination of new mobility technologies creates opportunities for cutting emissions, but requires strategic policy interventions

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The combination of connectivity, automation plus shared vehicle ownership and use has the potential to make car travel greener and cheaper, cutting energy use and helping accelerate the introduction of low carbon vehicles. — was presented at the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership Conference at the Olympic Park in London.

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Ford Smart Mobility shifts from research to implementation; company announces new programs, next areas of focus

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In the opening keynote at Ford’s annual trends conference, 2015 Further With Ford, CEO Mark Fields announced the next phase of the company’s Smart Mobility plan, originally announced in January this year at CES ( earlier post ). Because what we are seeing is software and connectivity technology are driving vehicle innovation faster than ever.

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Meet Mr. Internet: Vint Cerf

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For the past three months, Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn had been working together on a problem Kahn had been pondering for some time: how to connect ground-based military computers seamlessly to communications satellites and mobile radios. arranged a visit to a Semi-Automatic Ground Environment computer center. and University College London.

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The Vacuum Tube’s Forgotten Rival

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V-2 rockets it used to rain destruction on London. Mag amps thus found many applications in demanding environments, especially military, space, and industrial control. Complex logic circuits could be implemented by connecting such cores together in various arrangements. During the 1950s, the U.S. How Magnetic Amplifiers Amplify.

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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The ARPANET Is Born Kahn wasn’t the only one thinking about connecting disparate computers in the 1960s. In 1965, Larry Roberts, then at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory , connected one computer in Massachusetts to another in California over a telephone line. I was pretty sure it would work,” Kahn says, “but it was a big event.

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