Cars That Think

MAY 17, 2023

Ever since Lwanga Herbert was a youngster growing up in Kampala, Uganda, he wanted to create technology to improve his community. The devices were recognized by the Uganda National Council for Science and Technology. Herbert now works to use technology to address challenges faced by Uganda as a whole, such as high neonatal death rates.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 29, 2024

EPICS in IEEE has played a key role in expanding the global reach of projects in which engineering students bring their learning and skills to bear in addressing challenges faced by their local communities,” says Leah Jamieson , 2007 IEEE president and a cofounder of EPICS at Purdue, which is in West Lafayette, Ind.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Both are easy to define—a population’s share connected to the national grid or to a local source of electricity, and the ability to read and write—but such definitions do not make it possible to get a truly informed verdict. We measure access to electricity no better than we do the rate of literacy.

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