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MIT Report Outlines System-Oriented Coordinated Polices for Reduction in Light-Duty Vehicle Petroleum Use and Emissions

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A new MIT report outlines a system-oriented set of coordinated policies to help the light-duty vehicle sector reduce petroleum-based consumption and its accompanying global warming emissions. For policymakers in Washington, taking a systems view is difficult because of the politics involved. Heywood et al.

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SRC launches Synthetic Biology Research on biomedical and minimal-power electronic devices for novel semiconductor applications

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Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), the world’s leading university-research consortium for semiconductor technologies, has launched the Semiconductor Synthetic Biology (SSB) research program on hybrid bio-semiconductor systems to provide insights and opportunities for future information and communication technologies.

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AC Kinetics to showcase next-generation motor control software at ARPA-E Summit; 10-40% reduction in energy consumption and improved performance

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will introduce its next-generation motor control technology at the upcoming ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit in Washington, D.C., The AC Kinetics team’s first motor control technology, invented by Dr. Singer and patented by MIT, reduces vibrations and acoustics on hundreds of millions of machines world-wide. Source: AC Kinetics.

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US DOE awards ~$5M to expand research on methane hydrates

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Selected projects are: Georgia Tech Research Corporation. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). MIT will work with the U.S. University of Washington. DOE Investment: approximately $650,000. Geological Survey and the University of New Hampshire on the project. DOE Investment: approximately $900,000. ?University

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100 Years Ago, IBM Was Born

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So let’s take a moment to contemplate the origins of an iconic corporation. In 1911, the Washington, D.C.–based Birth of a Corporate Culture Slowly and steadily, Watson was creating a new corporate culture of ethics, paired with competent sales, solid technology, and a growing international perspective. And so it did.

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Bob Kahn on the Birth of “Inter-networking”

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Bob Kahn: I got my PhD from Princeton in 1964 and took a job as an assistant professor at MIT in the electrical engineering department. There was a series of reports that Paul Baran wrote at the RAND Corporation on distributed communications. Licklider who came to ARPA from BBN (and MIT before that). I was there for a few years.

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Sun Catalytix Signs $4M ARPA-E Contract and Forms Scientific Advisory Board; Affordable Catalysts for Water Splitting

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The SAB is chaired by John Deutch, Institute Professor at MIT, whose government experience includes service as Director of Energy Research and Undersecretary of the Department of Energy, and Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology. Earlier post.). —John Deutch.

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