Cars That Think

APRIL 20, 2024

He was a theoretical guy, on leave from the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a stint at the nearby research-and-development company Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN). In 1965, Larry Roberts, then at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory , connected one computer in Massachusetts to another in California over a telephone line.

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New York MIT Universal New York City 135

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Of the lead recipients, 43% are small businesses, 35% are educational institutions, and 19% are large corporations. Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will develop a paradigm shifting new all-liquid metal grid scale battery for low cost, large scale storage of electrical energy. Biomass Energy (5 projects).

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Cars That Think

JUNE 4, 2022

Structured VLSI design, now taught in more than 100 universities. When the center opened in 1970, it was unlike other major industrial research laboratories; its work wasn’t tied, even loosely, to its corporate parent’s current product lines. PARC is one of three research centers within Xerox; the other two are in Webster, N.Y.,

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Future Engine Personal IDEA 145

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Northwestern University. Northwestern University will engineer an entirely new biocatalyst for highly efficient methane activation, the first step required to convert methane into a liquid fuel. Pennsylvania State University. University of Michigan. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Gas Conversion Low Cost Universal 259

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

—Akio Toyoda, Toyota Motor Corporation President/CEO. Two tanks with a three-layer structure made of carbon fiber-reinforced plastic and other materials are used to store hydrogen at 70 MPa (approximately 700 bars or 10,000 psi). —Satoshi Ogiso, Managing Officer, Toyota Motor Corporation. The Prius analogy.

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Prius Toyota Hydrogen Carbon Fiber 296

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 15, 2009

WestVirginia University : Formula Lightning Solar Cars Clarkson University :Solar Knights Kansas State University :Apollo Universityof Quebec : Eclipse II University ofToronto : Blue Sky QueensUniversity : Dawn Treader Street Cars CentralShenandoah Valley Regional Governors School : Datsun 240Z conversion.

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Conversion Midget Motors Taylor-Dunn DC 28

Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

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. Massachusetts Institute of Technology student Ivan E. Sutherland built it in 1962 as a Ph.D.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

In a hangar at the University of Edinburgh, a triangular steel contraption sits beside a giant tank of water. This scale model of a floating wind-turbine platform is one of 10 new designs being tested at the University of Edinburgh’s FloWave facility. Big corporate players are taking up the multirotor and downwind designs.

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Wind Global Water Oil 128