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DOT awarding up to $435M for 34 University Transportation Centers

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The US Department of Transportation (DOT) is awarding up to $435 million in grant awards for 34 University Transportation Centers (UTC). The Department received 230 grant applications during this competition, which represents the largest number of applications ever submitted in the 35-year history of the UTC Program.

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FTA selects 7 projects to receive $22.5M in grants for battery-electric and fuel cell buses, infrastructure

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These vehicles will be deployed on bus routes in South Philadelphia, and an associated workforce development program will further contribute to the project's economic impact. Partnering with the University of Utah, these buses will serve the route connecting the campus to Salt Lake City. Utah Transit Authority (UTA).

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Video Friday: Guitar Bot

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ICRA 2022 : 23–27 May 2022, Philadelphia ERF 2022 : 28–30 June 2022, Rotterdam, Germany CLAWAR 2022 : 12–14 September 2022, Açores, Portugal Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today's videos. All the clips in this video are 1x on purpose to show Cassie's motion. Michigan Robotics ] Thanks, Bruce!

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This Clock Made Power Grids Possible

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The 60-hertz standard (or 50 hertz in most of the rest of the world) is taken for granted today, but in the early days of electrification—before the invention of the master station clock—the standard was seldom standard. The black hand is connected to a standard mechanical pendulum clock; the gold hand is driven by a synchronous motor.

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

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Structured VLSI design, now taught in more than 100 universities. And unlike university research laboratories, PARC had one unifying vision: it would develop “the architecture of information.” Pake was executive vice chancellor, provost, and professor of physics at Washington University in St. Laser printers.

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When New York City Was a Wiretapper’s Dream

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The connections blanketed an area of Manhattan running from East 38th Street to East 96th Street, a swath of the city’s most expensive real estate. In the course of the ensuing criminal trial, Shannon, Asmann, and Ruh were all granted immunity in exchange for testifying against Broady, who emerged as the brains behind the operation.