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Turing Award Winner On His Pioneering Algorithms

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For 16 weeks he worked with a group of researchers designing and developing EISPACK , a package of Fortran routines that compute the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices—calculations common in scientific computing. I’ve prospered in that environment. He has won many awards at the conference for his papers. a nearby U.S.

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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That was the case for Melba Crawford , who as a teenager couldn’t wait to leave her family’s farm in Illinois to pursue an engineering career. I was interested in the design and operation of airplanes and spacecraft.” You study many areas in civil engineering, including structures, soils, transportation, and the environment,” she says.

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USDA and DOE award $12.2M to 10 research projects to accelerate bioenergy crop production and spur economic impact

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Overall, the USDA and DOE projects are designed to improve special crops to be grown for biofuels—including selected trees and grasses—by increasing their yield, quality and ability to adapt to extreme environments. Plant growth and development, including biomass accumulation, are affected by the light environment.

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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Illinois Department of Transportation on behalf of seven transit agencies, Illinois: $4,030,000. Renewable Wind Energy: MBTA will design and construct wind energy generation turbines in eastern Massachusetts (from among Kingston, Newburyport, Bridgewater). Chicago Transit Authority, Illinois: $1,500,000.

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Video Friday: Sweet Bite Ham Ham

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Campfire ] via [ RobotStart ] Venus is home to one of the most extreme environments in the solar system. Researchers are working on a concept that could change the way we explore the intense environment of Earth’s closest planetary neighbor. Paper ] Welp, now I want to work at Ascento. SDU ] Thanks, Poramate!

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Solar Powered Greenius Producing Massive South Bay Energy

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Howard’s team is holding a conference on June 24th for city managers throughout the county that I’ll be attending. To put that in perspective for you, if Los Angeles County were a state, it would rank ninth in population behind the states of California, New York, Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, and Michigan.

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IEEE Celebrates Engineering Brilliance

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ALLEN MEDAL Sponsor: IBM DAVID KUCK University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign “For pioneering work in vector and parallel computer architecture, software, and compilers that enables many performance-sensitive applications.” IEEE FRANCES E. IEEE MEDAL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND SAFETY TECHNOLOGIES Sponsor: Toyota Motor Corp. IEEE RICHARD M.

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