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Testing Products for Consumer Reports

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For over 80 years, people have turned to Consumer Reports for honest and authoritative assessments of products before they put their money down. Today, the responsibility for managing testing and ratings for tech-containing products falls to Maria Rerecich , senior director of product testing at the independent nonprofit member organization.

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Daimler joining MIT CSAIL Alliance Program for AI work; cognitive vehicles

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Daimler is becoming a new member of the MIT CSAIL Alliance Program. MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ( CSAIL ) is the largest research laboratory at MIT and one of the world’s most important centers of information technology research. The new cooperation with the MIT ideally complements this.

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MIT CSAIL, Cornell study finds rides-sharing theoretically could cut taxi traffic in NYC by 75%

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A new modeling study by a team from MIT CSAIL (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory) and Cornell suggests that using ride-sharing from companies like Uber and Lyft theoretically could reduce the number of taxis on the road in New York City by 75% without significantly impacting travel time. —Daniela Rus.

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MIT team discovers new family of materials with best performance yet for oxygen evolution reaction; implications for fuel cells and Li-air batteries

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MIT researchers have found a new family of highly active catalyst materials that provides the best performance yet in the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in electrochemical water-splitting—a key requirement for energy storage and delivery systems such as advanced fuel cells and lithium-air batteries. Source: MIT. Grimaud et al.

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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Through her contributions to plant breeding, she is helping improve the security and resilience of food production internationally. Mildred Dresselhaus worked at MIT, which she joined in 1960 as a researcher in its Lincoln Laboratory Solid State Division, in Lexington, Mass. Crawford recently helped lead a project funded by the U.S.

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ARPA-E to award $14.5M to 5 projects to reduce energy use for transportation

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TRANSNET project teams will design and test new network optimization approaches, coupled with novel transportation and mobility simulations, to improve the energy efficiency of personal transportation. The Connected Traveler: A Framework to Reduce Energy Use in Transportation. Mobility Electronic Market for Optimized Travel (MeMOT).

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Bob Kahn on the Birth of “Inter-networking”

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Bob Kahn: I got my PhD from Princeton in 1964 and took a job as an assistant professor at MIT in the electrical engineering department. At around the same time, Len (Leonard) Kleinrock was doing theoretical work on queuing networks at MIT. Licklider who came to ARPA from BBN (and MIT before that). I was there for a few years.

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