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APRA-E awards WUSTL $2M to develop predictive battery management system for plug-in vehicles; targeting more efficient use

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A team of engineers at Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) will receive $2 million from the US Department of Energy’s ARPA-E to design a predictive battery management system for lithium-ion batteries to guarantee their longevity, safety and performance. The School of Engineering & Applied Science is providing $1.2 Earlier post.)

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DOE to Award $41.9M in Recovery Funds to Spur Growth of Fuel Cell Markets

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Success at this service center will lead to further fleet conversions at some or all of FedEx’s other 470 service centers. Polyfuel will also conduct a design for manufacturability and assembly review to ensure that the systems meet the cost targets for commercialization. Anheuser-Busch (St. Louis, MO).

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DOE awards $100M in 2nd funding round for 32 Energy Frontier Research Centers

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Awards range from $2 million to $4 million per year per center for up to four fiscal years, subject to a progress review in year two. Since their establishment by the Department’s Office of Science, the EFRCs have produced 5,400 peer-reviewed scientific publications and hundreds of inventions at various stages of the patent process.

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

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Pake was executive vice chancellor, provost, and professor of physics at Washington University in St. Also in 1974, the Product Review Committee at Xerox head­quarters in Rochester, N.Y., The first version of Smalltalk was written as the result of a chance conversation between Kay, Ingalls, and Ted Kaehler, another PARC researcher.

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