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Interim assessment finds Volkswagen’s “Think Blue. Factory.” program reduced resource consumption by average 24.3% since 2011

Green Car Congress

Participants at the annual conference also discussed new targets for the future of vehicle production at Volkswagen. This year, Volkswagen also honored the personal engagement of employees who have shown outstanding commitment to the conservation of resources. day in Wolfsburg. At the fourth "Think Blue. Earlier post.).

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IEEE’s Honor Society Gave This Boston University Student Tools to Succeed

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He also created several programs for the honors society, including an Arduino and coding workshop for high school students and BU undergrads. Greene participated in several of the society’s student leadership conferences, where he was a presenter and keynote speaker.

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Leading the Way for More LGBTQ Inclusivity in STEM

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In 2011 she took a position at the university as a lecturer and started her own LGBTQ+ network there so she could help create a better environment. If you want to make a change in a very difficult and unchanging environment, you must be disruptive. The overall environment also became more positive and welcoming.”

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DEI Fund Supports STEM Workshops and Coding Camps

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IEEE groups are working hard to support the organization’s mission in creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment. Supporting the next generation of engineers These are the eight winning proposals: Inland Empire data science workshops. iBelong workshops. Raspberry Pi coding workshop.

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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. Back to top.

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Greenius Weekend Update

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Holiday greetings from teetering on the precipice of bankruptcy California, where we’ve had a couple of unnerving earthquakes, a historic election and a disappointing Lakers’ home loss in the NBA Western Conference Finals since last I posted. Tags: environment. Bravo, Mr. Montgomery.

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The Do-or-Die Moments That Determined the Fate of the Internet

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Indeed, hyped-up product announcements at industry events like the Consumer Electronics Show (now CES ) and the Game Developers Conference have become regular features of the digital world. Once Kahn found a venue for the demo—at the International Conference on Computer Communications (ICCC), to be held in Washington, D.C.,

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