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Teen Creates App To Identify Nutrient Deficiencies

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In 2020, as a sophomore at South Brunswick High School in New Jersey, Tiwari was learning remotely during the coronavirus pandemic, and he found himself bored. He presented his app at last year’s IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Reality during an event hosted in collaboration with Amazon Web Services.

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Former CEO of American Electric Power Dies at 94

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He worked in managerial positions in New York, Ohio, and Virginia, then became AEP's chief executive in 1976 and served in that role until he retired in 1991. White was the first American chair of the International Conference on Large High-Voltage Electric Systems. He also was a member of the IEEE–Eta Kappa Nu honor society.

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Paige's AI Diagnostic Tech is Revolutionizing Cancer Diagnosis

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But his desire to understand how the human brain works led him to switch from physics to electrical engineering and ultimately to pursue signal processing at the University of Vermont. He joined as an undergraduate student and visited the organization's New Jersey headquarters when he worked at Siemens.

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Halcrow Presents Conceptual Design for Storm Surge Barrier to Protect the New York Metro Area

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Halcrow, a specialist in the provision of planning, design and management services for infrastructure development, has presented a conceptual design for an outer harbor gateway to protect the New York and New Jersey metropolitan areas from severe coastal flooding resulting from storm surges, along with rising sea-levels due to climate change.

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Who Really Invented the Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery?

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Whittingham, a young British chemist, joined the quest at Exxon Research and Engineering in New Jersey in the fall of 1972. Oxford takes the handoff In 1976, John Goodenough [left] joined the University of Oxford, where he headed development of the first lithium cobalt oxide cathode. But he found no takers.

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This Nobel Laureate Paved the Way for High-Intensity Lasers

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But she didn’t know what subject she wanted to pursue until she began her undergraduate studies in physics at McMaster University , in Hamilton, Ont., While conducting research in optics for her doctorate at the University of Rochester , in New York, Strickland worked with French physicist Gérard Mourou , a laser pioneer and Nobel laureate.

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The Tremendous VR and CG Systems—of the 1960s

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www.youtube.com As an undergraduate engineering student at Carnegie Tech (today’s Carnegie Mellon University), and then as a graduate student at Caltech (before he moved to MIT after one year), Sutherland continued to design and build more advanced light-seeking robots. The Sketchpad system…opens up a new era of man-machine communication.”

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