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Ford opens new Silicon Valley research center; focus on connectivity, mobility, autonomous vehicles, big data

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Ford has opened its new Research and Innovation Center Palo Alto, growing its global research team and accelerating the company’s work in connectivity, mobility, autonomous vehicles, customer experience and big data. Earlier this month, the company introduced Ford Smart Mobility at the 2015 International CES. Maciuca holds a Ph.D.

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Ford launches app developer challenge to improve consumer understanding of personal fuel efficiency

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Participants will have access to Ford’s OpenXC connectivity research platform as a sandbox to create and test their ideas for the Personalized Fuel Efficiency Apps Challenge. Jim Farley, Ford executive vice president of Global Marketing, Sales and Service and Lincoln, announced the contest at the 2013 New York International Auto Show.

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Volkswagen partners with D-Wave on quantum computing; CeBIT premiere of research project for traffic flow optimization

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In the course of this project, experts from the Volkswagen Code Lab in San Francisco and the Volkswagen Data Lab in Munich and used data from approximately 10,000 taxis in Beijing. —Robert “Bo” Ewald, President of D-Wave International.

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The First Million-Transistor Chip: the Engineers’ Story

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In San Francisco on Feb. A boundary scan feature lets system designers check the chip’s input and output connections without having to run instructions. The i860 normally uses 64-bit instructions; for burn-in, the reliability engineers wanted as few connections as possible: 64 was far too many. 27, 1989, Intel Corp.,

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

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A high-speed network that connects computers, printers, and other peripherals in an office or building. 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. At nearly the same time the Apple I became available, also in kit form.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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“Electric vehicles could be connected to the grid and could store energy at times when too much is produced ? February 17, 2009 2:31 pm Link CGC (#18 and #21), You make an error in not delving into the efficiency of the internal combustion engine (ICE) and that of power generation. While utilities such as E.ON — CGC 22.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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And, if you consider lifetime costs of owning an EV versus owning a traditional internal combustion car, even if the initial purchase price of the EV is much more than your combustion car and you have to replace a battery for $4,000 after 7-10 years, the EV still costs less to operate. If you charge with solar, is way less.

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