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Transphorm to demonstrate 99% efficiency power switching with a 1200V GaN power transistor at ISPSD 2022

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As part of the ARPA-E CIRCUITS program led by the Illinois Institute of Technology, the Transphorm team has demonstrated an important breakthrough, showcasing GaN performance at the 1200-volt device node with high efficiency 800-volt switching.

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Opinion: Making Sense of the Stellantis Auto Show Decision

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Especially since it wasn’t that long ago that previous versions of what is now Stellantis were known for putting on elaborate press conferences during media days (especially in Detroit). Stellantis is planning to invest almost $5 billion in its Belvidere, Illinois plant. Even if it’s just a temporary move.

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Bionic Hand Gives Amputees Sense of Touch

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Two years later he was accepted into the Medical Scholars Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He reported that he felt as though a part of him had come back thanks to the prosthesis. IEEE provides a great "ecosystem," he says, on prosthetic limbs and robotics, and "it's amazing to be part of that community."

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Emmy Award Winner’s Algorithms Bring High-Quality Video to Your TV

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at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Bovik found his calling: digital image processing. Alma mater: University of Illinois. Developing the SSIM index At the University of Illinois, Bovik took a class on digital image processing taught by Thomas Huang , a professor of electrical and computer engineering.

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Turing Award Winner On His Pioneering Algorithms

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He received US $1 million as part of the award, which is known as the Nobel Prize of computing. After graduating from Chicago State in 1972 with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics, Dongarra went on to pursue a master’s degree in computer science at the Illinois Institute of Technology , also in Chicago. Entrepreneurial Spirit.

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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. But during her time as a freshman at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, the aerospace industry went through a period of mass layoffs. Then you are part of a community.”

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How MIT’s Muriel Medard Pioneered the Universal Decoder

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After graduating, she joined the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1998 as an assistant professor. She has presented at numerous IEEE conferences, and many of her research articles are available in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Having conferences at which we exchange information is key,” she says.