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How Purdue University Commercializes Its Research

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“When I was learning data structures, I began to see things from a different viewpoint—how to make things efficient,” says Lu, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and a university faculty scholar at Purdue University’s Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering , in West Lafayette, Ind.

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Clever Compression of Some Neural Nets Improves Performance

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Somehow it builds internal representations of the data that it can take in different directions. For each snippet of sound, it would guess the word or words, and update its connections based on whether it’s right or wrong. Then in fine-tuning it might learn to transcribe a given language using only minutes of transcribed audio.

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Arizona State Students Develop a Solar-Powered Air Filtration System

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A team of students from the Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University is helping to improve the air quality for nomadic communities in Mongolia. The team worked with the nonprofit Taiwan Fund for Children and Families (TFCF). The system is being used in the mobile homes of those living in nomadic communities.

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Eni-BP Joint Venture Awarded Coal-Bed Methane Project in Indonesia; Potential for First Integrated CBM to LNG Project

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The Sanga-Sanga CBM PSC, which will be connected to the Bontang LNG, has the potential to become the first “CBM to LNG” integrated project, enabling rapid gas commercialization. The Sanga-Sanga CBM PSC was awarded to a consortium comprising VICO (7.5% interest in the contract.

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ETH Zürich Developing Pneumatic Hybrid Engine; Approaches Hybrid-Electric Performance at Lower Cost

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Researchers at ETH Zürich are developing a pneumatic hybrid engine—an internal combustion engine connected to a compressed air tank instead of a battery system. Pneumatic hybrid engine on the test bench. Rüegg / ETH Zurich. Click to enlarge. Dönitz et al.

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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. In April 1999, the Israeli company M-Systems filed a patent application titled “Architecture for a Universal Serial Bus-based PC flash disk.”

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New “2-in-1” EV unit integrates traction motor and A/C compressor for increased range in hot climates

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Engineers from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) have designed a “2-in-1” electric motor unit which can increase the range of electric vehicles in hot climates. TECO, a Taiwan-based company, is one of the largest manufacturers of electrical drive technology.).

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