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Kicking It With Robots

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In July of 2010, I traveled to Singapore to take care of my then 6-year-old son Henry while his mother attended an academic conference. When I told Guizzo I was going to be in Singapore, he told me that RoboCup, an international robot soccer competition, was going on at the same time. But I was really there for the robots.

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A Novel IEEE Workshop Showcases Jamaica’s Engineering Community

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The section held a first-of-its-kind workshop in January at the University of Technology in Kingston. Students and members met with IEEE leaders, government officials, university professors, and industry executives. Students from several local schools and universities participated in the event.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. Even in his home of Singapore, few people know of Tan or Trek. Today it is familiar worldwide. Why aren’t they more famous?

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MIT and Princeton researchers leverage smartphone cameras for collaborative traffic signal schedule advisory system; tests show 20% cut in fuel consumption

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In July, at the Association for Computing Machinery’s MobiSys conference, researchers from MIT and Princeton University took the best-paper award for a system that uses a network of smartphones mounted on car dashboards to collect information about traffic signals and to then tell drivers when slowing down could help them avoid waiting at lights.

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NTU Singapore and BlueSG launch ultra-fast charging electric tram; 20-second recharge

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Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and BlueSG Pte Ltd, a subsidiary of Blue Solutions owned by the Bolloré Group, have launched Singapore’s first flash-charging electric shuttle. As part of the trials, NTU students would also be able to ride the shuttle from the second half of 2018.

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Advanced biofuels conference in Singapore to focus on cellulosic and algal produced bioenergy

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Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology and Singapore’s Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR) announced the second Keystone Symposia conference on Biofuels in Singapore from 1-6 March 2011. Professor Lonnie Ingram of the University of Florida; Professor Jay D. —Professor Mayfield.

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UK Company to Introduce Hydrogen Fuel Cell Urban Car; Open Source Approach

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6 kW fuel cell (developed with Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies of Singapore). Riversimple worked with Oxford and Cranfield University on the power electronics, motors and control system. LCVP conference, 8 June 2009. The powertrain includes. Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles: Still 10 years away?

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