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BMW, Intel, Mobileye: 40 autonomous BMWs to be on road by 2H 2017; standards-based open platform for autonomy

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Revealing this at a podium discussion held during a joint press conference at CES, the companies further explained that the BMW 7 Series will employ advanced Intel and Mobileye technologies during global trials starting in the US and Europe. Earlier post.)

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The Soviet-Era, Z80-based Galaksija Dared to Be Different

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As a retrocomputing nerd, when I saw early last year that the Galaksija was being reissued as a complete kit through Crowd Supply , I placed an order on general principles. But my interest was really piqued a few months later when I attended a fascinating talk on Yugoslavian computing given by Vlado Vince at the HOPE hacker conference.

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National Labs Developing Methodology for Estimating Real World Fuel and Electricity Consumption of Plug-in Hybrids Based on Dynamometer Data

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One subtlety of chassis dynamometer testing is that vehicle fuel economy measurements using decades-old standard speed profiles may be overly optimistic compared to today’s average on-road fuel use. The results of this research were presented at the recent 5 th IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference (VPPC’09) in Dearborn, Mich.

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The First Million-Transistor Chip: the Engineers’ Story

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The designers of the floating-point adder and multiplier units made the logic for rounding off numbers conform to IEEE standards, which slowed performance. s computers, for example, reject those standards to boost performance.) In addition to standard scalar operations, the i860 can, like a supercomputer, perform vector operations.

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

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A memory capable of storing all the information for a single video frame; the contents of a frame buffer can be controlled by special software to produce or modify images. The first personal computer developed in the United States is commonly thought to be the MITS Altair, which sold as a hobbyist’s kit in 1976. Frame buffer.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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The XHT is a new generation of plug-in hybrid drive train ready to multiply the gas mileage of any SUV or any standard sedan." ( Company PressRelease ) BYD Auto top 2/3/08 BYD Auto Co., DaimlerChrysler has presented plug-in hybrids in commercial vans that have enough room to store the batteries, but the technology is not quite ripe for cars."Plug-in

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