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IEEE President’s Note: Investing in IEEE’s Financial Future

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My personal mission as an IEEE volunteer has been to work to make the institute the premier organization for technical professionals to engage with. My objectives focus on implementing practical measures to inspire individuals to call IEEE their lifelong professional home. In May we rolled out NextGen Financials.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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Personal computers in the late 1980s began incorporating CD-ROM drives, but initially these could read only from prerecorded disks and could not store user-generated data. The dot-com boom of 1995 to 2000 further increased demand for personal computing gear. MB of data. Clones, in a sense, are marvelous….it

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Mercedes-Benz presents autonomous Future Truck 2025 research vehicle; “Highway Pilot”

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The sensor and camera technology is active throughout the speed range from standstill to the legally permitted maximum truck speed of 80 km/h. Autonomous driving is a “can” function – the driver can always decide freely whether to take personal control or leave things to the technology. guard rails or vegetation).

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GM, Segway partner on two-wheel city vehicle | Green Tech - CNET News

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The prototype vehicle, called Project PUMA (Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility), is designed to ease congestion and pollution problems in cities. It is based on the Segway Personal Transporter but holds two people, instead of one, and lets them sit, instead of stand. You could even call it Personal On-demand Driving.

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