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Daimler receives Porsche Prize for diesel aftertreatment system in OM 654

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The Professor Ferdinand Porsche Prize was awarded by Vienna University of Technology to Anke Kleinschmit, Head of Corporate Research & Sustainability and Environmental Officer for Daimler AG, for the development of the innovative exhaust gas aftertreatment system in the new OM 654 four-cylinder diesel engine ( earlier post ).

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Saifur Rahman is 2022 IEEE President-Elect

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He is the founding director of the Advanced Research Institute at the university, which helps faculty members get access to research funding, government laboratories, and industry research centers. Rahman is the founding editor in chief of the IEEE Electrification Magazine and the IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy.

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COMAC of China, Boeing open Energy Conservation Center; first focus on aviation biofuel from waste cooking oil

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Funded by both companies, the Boeing-COMAC Technology Center is working with China-based universities and research institutions to expand knowledge in areas such as sustainable aviation biofuels and air traffic management that improve commercial aviation’s efficiency and reduce carbon emissions. SAMC), Shanghai Aircraft Customer Service Co.,

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‘AI Pause’ Open Letter Stokes Fear and Controversy

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In the news media, the open letter has inspired straight reportage , critical accounts for not going far enough (“ shut it all down ,” Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote in Time magazine), as well as critical accounts for being both a mess and an alarmist distraction that overlooks the real AI challenges ahead.

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Commercial Aircraft Corp of China and Boeing to partner on aviation energy conservations and emissions reductions

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The companies will collaborate with China-based universities and research institutions to expand knowledge of technologies—such as sustainable aviation biofuels, aviation connectivity infrastructure and other areas—that improve commercial aviation’s energy efficiency or reduce the industry’s carbon emissions. programs in China.

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Biofuels surge under Obama?

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But in a cabinet filled with ethanol boosters, his coziness with corporate sponsors of biofuels research makes me wonder what solutions to the climate crisis will get top priority, and top dollar after January 20th. Corporate sponsors have an outsized influence on universities these days. Is Steven Chu BFF With BP?

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10 Lessons From the Legacy of Apple’s Steve Jobs

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Jobs also redefined what a high-tech corporate campus should look like, according to a 2011. One of the final products he pitched was Apple Park , the company's corporate campus in Cupertino, Calif. On its 25 October 2005 cover, Time magazine hailed Jobs as "the man who always seems to know what's next." IEEE Spectrum article.

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