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Boeing to acquire Aurora Flight Sciences to advance autonomous technology capabilities

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Leveraging autonomous systems that include perception, machine learning and advanced flight control systems, Aurora has designed, produced and flown more than 30 unmanned air vehicles since the company was founded in 1989. Aurora Flight Sciences is also a leader in the emerging field of electric propulsion for aircraft.

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NASA testing new boundary layer ingesting (BLI) propulsor; 4-8% fuel burn savings over current advanced engines

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MIT and NASA engineers earlier proposed the D8 Series as one future aircraft design concept that uses boundary layer ingestion. If this new design and its enabling technologies can be made to work, the BLI propulsor will produce the required thrust with less propulsive power input. Hardin, Gregory Tillman, Om P.

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Former CEO of American Electric Power Dies at 94

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After the war, he joined American Electric Power in Columbus, Ohio, as an assistant engineer. He worked in managerial positions in New York, Ohio, and Virginia, then became AEP's chief executive in 1976 and served in that role until he retired in 1991. During his career, he designed 14 patented electromechanical filters.

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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TITLE ‘Professor of civil engineering, agronomy, and electrical and computer engineering MEMBER GRADE Fellow ALMA MATERS University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Ohio State University, Columbus But her engineering path eventually led her back to agriculture. I was interested in the design and operation of airplanes and spacecraft.”

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Toyota’s Collaborative Safety Research Center launches 5-year, $35M program on autonomous and connected vehicle technologies

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First announced in 2014, CSRC Next ( earlier post ) will direct $35 million through 2021 towards research designed to support a safe transition to the future of mobility. Another, with MIT, modelled in-vehicle voice command systems and driver behavior. —Chuck Gulash, Director of CSRC.

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

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US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz announced nearly $5 million in funding across seven research projects designed to increase the understanding of methane hydrates. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). MIT will work with the U.S. Selected projects are: Georgia Tech Research Corporation. The University of Texas at Austin.

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How the Computer Graphics Industry Got Started at the University of Utah

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Founding the first influential computer graphics company Computer graphics began in the 1950s with interactive games and visualization tools designed by the U.S. Sutherland was already famous in computer graphics circles, having created Sketchpad , the first computer-aided design program, for his Ph.D. thesis in 1963 at MIT.

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