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Video Friday: Robot Training

Cars That Think

Our transformer robot visited Philly in 2022 as part of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Swiss-Mile ] Human cells grown in the lab could one day be used for a variety of tissue grafts, but these cells need the right kind of environment and stimulation.

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We Need to Decarbonize Software

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s climate-change conference, to discuss the urgent need to lower emissions. That appears to be a tiny amount, but if the site gets 10,000 views each month for a year, its emissions would be a little over that of a one-way flight from San Francisco to Toronto. Software may be eating the world , but it is also heating it.

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31st Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals; Some New Approaches for Producing Butanol

Green Car Congress

The 31 st Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals, a special conference of the Society for Industrial Microbiology, began yesterday in San Francisco with its largest group of conferees yet—approximately 850. Renewable resources, lignocellulosics, are at the intersection of agriculture, energy and environment.

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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. PG&E services the San Francisco area and Northern California. —Peter Darbee.

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Meet Mr. Internet: Vint Cerf

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But now, Cerf sat alone in the lobby of San Francisco’s Jack Tar Hotel , on a break from a computing conference. arranged a visit to a Semi-Automatic Ground Environment computer center. But when he entered Stanford University later that year, he envisioned a career in mathematics, not computer science.

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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Bob Taylor, then at the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) , got interested in connecting computers, in part to save the organization money by getting the expensive computers it funded at universities and research organizations to share their resources over a packet-switched network. 1962 and Ph.D.

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Summer Update

Plug In Partners

They join Founding Members from these cities: Arlington, TX, Baltimore, Boulder, Dallas, Denver, Fort Worth, Irvine, CA, Los Angeles, Memphis, Philadelphia, Seattle, San Francisco, and Wenatchee, WA. The press conference will be at 3:00 pm at Austin City Hall. Mr. Woolsey and Ms.