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Sophia Muirhead Is IEEE’s Next Executive Director

Cars That Think

Prior to joining IEEE, she was senior vice president, chief legal officer, and corporate secretary at The Conference Board , a global business membership organization. Muirhead earned a juris doctor degree from Harvard Law School and holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Hunter College , in New York City.

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Cleveland City Planners Change Policies to Create 15-Minute City

The Truth About Cars

This could be as simple as a company offering employees a transit pass or as complicated as a corporation helping to refurbish bus stations. The new standards will reportedly come into effect in less than a month. But this is but a singular component.

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Who Really Invented the Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery?

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In contrast, Whittingham’s new chemistry produced an astonishing 2.4 In the winter of 1973, corporate managers summoned Whittingham to the company’s New York City offices to appear before a subcommittee of the Exxon board. “I The new chemistry boosted the battery’s voltage by another two-thirds, to 4 volts.

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COP26 declaration on accelerating the transition to 100% zero emission cars and vans

Green Car Congress

The declaration is not legally binding and is focused on a global level. We will support efforts to achieve the road transport breakthrough announced by world leaders, which aims to make zero emission vehicles the new normal by making them accessible, affordable and sustainable in all regions by 2030. …

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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It took some 30 years of effort by engineers and computer scientists in universities, government laboratories, and corporate research groups, piggybacking on each other’s work, trying new ideas, repeating each other’s mistakes. New York City and London, 1980), reprints his 1963 Ph.D. Santa Monica, Calif.,

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When New York City Was a Wiretapper’s Dream

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Subscribers whose phones were tapped at the time of the raid included a range of New York commercial interests, with assets both large and small: a modeling agency and an insurance company; an art gallery and a lead mining company; and perhaps most sensationally, two publicly traded pharmaceutical corporations with competing patent interests.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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Currently, though history traces today’s microprocessor back to Hoff, Mazor, and Faggin, the legal rights to the invention belong to Hyatt. and a major user of microprocessors, was looking for a vice president of corporate technology. and New York City. Sunnyvale, Calif., At Atari, chaos reigned. Cambridge, Mass.;

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