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MIT teams receiving $10M from TRI for next-gen battery materials

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Three MIT-affiliated research teams will receive about $10M in funding as part of a $35M materials science discovery program launched by the Toyota Research Institute (TRI). Provided over four years, the support to MIT researchers will be primarily directed at scientific discoveries and advancing energy storage. Earlier post.)

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Video Friday: Monocycle Robot With Legs

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Starship ] By blending 2D images with foundation models to build 3D feature fields, a new MIT method helps robots understand and manipulate nearby objects with open-ended language prompts. GitHub ] via [ MIT ] This is one of those things that’s far more difficult than it might look.

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EERC working with Fuel Cell Energy on $3.5M ARPA-E project for electrochemical cell to convert natural gas to methanol

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The US Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA-E) awarded $3,500,000 to the project , led by Fuel Cell Energy, as part of its REBELS (Reliable Electricity Based on ELectrochemical Systems) program. Other partners in the project are MIT, the University of Connecticut, and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

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Former Berkeley Dean of Engineering David A. Hodges Dies at 85

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Peter Bao-Sen Luh Professor emeritus at the University of Connecticut Life Fellow, 71; died 28 November Luh was a professor of electrical and systems engineering at the University of Connecticut in Storrs from 1980 to 2020. He earned a master’s degree in aeronautics and astronautics in 1977 from MIT and a Ph.D. for 37 years.

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Exascale Computing Project (ECP) announces $39.8M in first-round application development awards

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exascale ecosystem as part of President Obama’s National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI). Coupled Monte Carlo Neutronics and Fluid Flow Simulation of Small Modular Reactors, Thomas Evans (ORNL, PI) with ANL, INL, MIT. As part of President Obama’s National Strategic Computing initiative, ECP was.

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

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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. When I asked him how he got one, he told me that he went around to the various laboratories, collected parts that people owed him, and put it together himself.”

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