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DOE awarding $22 million for algal fuel and biomass feedstock supply chain projects

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Moniz was speaking at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Biomass 2013 conference. The projects include: Hawaii Bioenergy ($5 million DOE investment). Based in Lihue, Kauai, Hawaii Bioenergy will develop a cost-effective photosynthetic open pond system to produce algal oil. California Polytechnic State University ($1.5

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New low-voltage W-band millimeter-wave technology; applicable for cars, bikes, cellphones

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Hiroshima University and Mie Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited (MIFS) have developed a low-power millimeter-wave amplifier that feeds on 0.5 Details of the technology are being presented this week at the IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC) 201 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Another significance of our 0.5-V —Prof.

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IEEE awards Honeywell software team 2012 Control Systems Technology Award for OnRAMP Design Suite for Powertrain Control

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The award, which recognizes outstanding contributions to control systems technology, was awarded to the development team of engineers: David Germann, Dejan Kihas, Daniel Pachner, Jaroslav Pekar, Greg Stewart, and Francesco Borrelli, who is now an associate professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California-Berkeley.

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Oak Ridge researcher developing autonomous intelligent engines capable of real-time calibration based on driver behavior

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His body of work on on the underlying the theory and algorithms for this this extends back several years to his 2008 doctoral thesis at the University of Michigan (subsequently published as a book: Real-time, self-learning identification and stochastic optimal control of advanced powertrain systems ). Malikopoulos, A.A., Charalambous, C.D.

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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. Bob had that.

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"Spirit of DC" PHEV All Around America Update. from EVJerry back in DC with the "Spirit" Hanging out at the Beach!

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Conferring with Amtrak on "Spirit's" Auto Train Return from Sanford, Florida. Considering the possibilities of taking the "Spirit of DC" to Hawaii as retiree with military shipping benefit and Alaska, if the Alaska Marine Highway System offers a courtesy trip for doing an EVducational Tour on Alaska Inner Coastal Waterways.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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Structured VLSI design, now taught in more than 100 universities. And unlike university research laboratories, PARC had one unifying vision: it would develop “the architecture of information.” Pake was executive vice chancellor, provost, and professor of physics at Washington University in St. Laser printers.

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