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Penn State and partners hosting Next Generation Biomass Conversion Short Course and facility tour

Green Car Congress

Experts in the field, including government researchers, university specialists, and industry leaders, will provide instruction in this two-day course covering various aspects of biomass conversion including sessions on technology, economics, operations, and policy issues. Venue: Desmond Hotel and Great Valley Conference Center in Malvern.

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E-Waste is a Cybersecurity Problem, Too

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The conversation has been edited for length and clarity. John Shegerian People might say, how is that possible given that we’re talking more about environment and there are more companies like yours? From those examples you can see how you need to protect your financial and personal data on an individual level too.

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Ukraine Is Riddled With Land Mines. Drones and AI Can Help

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At that rate, it would take more than 500 million person-hours to manually search imagery covering all of Ukraine’s suspected contaminated land for EO. Our resulting model correctly detected 92 percent of PFM-1s in these environments, on average. demonstration previously described.

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IEEE Leaders Are Planning Now for 2050 and Beyond

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According to the committee’s research, IEEE’s current structure, areas of interest, programs and services, and sources of funding are not likely to align well with the potential futures of the global environment. But by 2050 the integration of in-person and virtual attendance is expected to be seamless.

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Getting More Students to Develop Tech That Benefits Society

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The professor is the recipient of this year’s IEEE John von Neumann Medal for “leadership in mobile and wireless sensing systems technologies and applications, including personal health management.” At UCLA, she designed one of the first systems for analog-to-digital conversion of electrical activity from the nervous system.

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The Business of Plugging In: Building the Full Ecosystem for a Successful Plug-in Vehicle Industry in the US

Green Car Congress

The conference was sold out; it was also essentially a PowerPoint-free zone; the basic format relied heavily on brief introductory remarks from sets of speakers representing the diverse stakeholders, followed by questions from attendees. Utilities, some of them will do more of that than others. —Jon Lauckner. —Dan Ford.

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Andrew Ng: Unbiggen AI

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One very senior person pulled me aside and warned me that starting Google Brain would be bad for my career. NeurIPS workshop paper advocating using CUDA , a platform for processing on GPUs, for deep learning—a different senior person in AI sat me down and said, “CUDA is really complicated to program. Ng: I think so, yes.

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