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

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Exascale refers to high-performance computing systems capable of at least a billion billion calculations per second, or a factor of 50 to 100 times faster than the nation’s most powerful supercomputers in use today. Coupled Monte Carlo Neutronics and Fluid Flow Simulation of Small Modular Reactors, Thomas Evans (ORNL, PI) with ANL, INL, MIT.

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Ford takes OpenXC research platform global, engaging local developers for market-specific connected vehicle apps in India

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It listens for a subset of CAN messages, performs required unit conversion or factoring and outputs a generic version to the USB interface. The reference host device is a standard Android device that supports the Android Platform version 3.1

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Study Concludes That an Aggressive Global Cellulosic Biofuels Program Could Have Unintended Consequences

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An aggressive global cellulosic biofuels program could contribute substantially to future global-scale energy needs, but could have significant unintended environmental consequences, according to a recent report by the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change. Carbon debt.

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The Cold War Arms Race Over Prosthetic Arms

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Wiener’s bad luck turned into fruitful conversations with his orthopedic surgeon, Melvin Glimcher. Left: MIT Museum; Right: Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard University Instead, it was Russian scientist Alexander Kobrinski who debuted the first clinically significant myoelectric prosthesis in 1960. Was the Boston Arm a success?

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The Tremendous VR and CG Systems—of the 1960s

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from MIT in 1963. The phrase refers to an individual who had made serious contributions to a domain, while also possessing multiple, and often diverse, talents and pursuits. Breakthrough at MIT After graduating from Carnegie Tech in 1959, Ivan Sutherland headed to Caltech for graduate studies in electrical engineering.

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This Clock Made Power Grids Possible

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He graduated from MIT in 1894 with a degree in electrical engineering, and within the year he (along with his friend George C. The conversation could have stopped there, but Robert Hale, a research engineer, took the concern seriously and helped Warren set up an experimental demonstration at the L Street station.

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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In 1965, Larry Roberts, then at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory , connected one computer in Massachusetts to another in California over a telephone line. You were just trying to figure out how to enable conversations.” Kahn postponed his planned return to MIT and continued to work on expanding this network.

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