Remove Conference Remove Illinois Remove Parts Remove Universal
article thumbnail

How MIT’s Muriel Medard Pioneered the Universal Decoder

Cars That Think

As the head of the network coding group at the university’s Research Laboratory for Electronics , the IEEE Fellow led a team that created a silicon chip that eliminates the need for custom decoding hardware to spot signal errors. After graduating, she joined the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1998 as an assistant professor.

article thumbnail

Bionic Hand Gives Amputees Sense of Touch

Cars That Think

He earned a bachelor's degree in biology in 2007 from Loyola University in Chicago. 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. and a Ph.D.

Ecuador 144
article thumbnail

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

Cars That Think

at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Bovik found his calling: digital image processing. Employer: University of Texas. Alma mater: University of Illinois. Bovik says he plans to remain at the university for another 40 years because “being an educator and video research is the best.” “I

article thumbnail

Turing Award Winner On His Pioneering Algorithms

Cars That Think

After he graduated high school, there was only one university he wanted to attend: Chicago State. About Jack Dongarra Employer: University of Tennessee, Knoxville Title: Professor emeritus, computer science Member grade: Life Fellow Alma mater: Chicago State University. The university recently named him professor emeritus.

Chicago 113
article thumbnail

How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

Cars That Think

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. CRAWFORD EMPLOYER Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. in systems engineering at Ohio State University , in Columbus. I did not want to be an astronaut, because I’m claustrophobic.

article thumbnail

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

Green Car Congress

The investments are part of a broader effort by the Obama administration to develop domestic renewable energy and advanced biofuels. Bartley, University of Oklahoma, Norman. Eric Beers, Virginia Polytechnic and State University, Blacksburg. Braun, University of Missouri, Columbia.

article thumbnail

Hertz’s EV sale to fan cost concerns, dampen used-car market – ET Auto

Baua Electric

.” The higher costs associated with repairing EVs stem from a lack of sufficient expertise in dealing with such vehicles and challenges in getting the replacement parts as they are still very new, industry experts said. Tesla and Polestar, whose cars are popular with car rental firms, did not respond to a request for comment. .

Auto 52