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NEVS and AutoX to collaborate on large-scale RoboTaxi deployment in Europe

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The partnership is directed towards a target of deploying the first large-scale RoboTaxi pilots in Europe by the end of 2020, demonstrating and evaluating technology and design of a new vehicle type that will shape mobility for a more sustainable future. Robotaxi vehicle concept. —Stefan Tilk, CEO of NEVS.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Concentric Ring Gas Atomization Die Design for Optimized Particle Production, $150,000 Praxair, Indianapolis, Ind. Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. Extension of Core Restrain Design Code NUBOW-3D to Lead Cooled Fast Reactor Systems, $75,000 Westinghouse Electric Company, Cranberry Township, Pa. San Jose, Calif.

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GKN Driveline develops new lightweight propshaft for Audi Q5; more compact, lighter, more efficient; MLB Evo

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design rather than the 6-ball setup of standard propshafts. GKN’s PVL technology is engineered to be universally compatible across VW’s MLB Evo architecture, which includes five brands and more than a dozen platforms. Refinement of the driveline has also improved. The PVL joint uses a 10-ball bearing.

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Ford to begin autonomous vehicle testing on California roads; Silicon Valley Lab accelerates Smart Mobility Plan

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The remaining 20% are Ford employees from the United States, China, Germany and Australia who bring automotive engineering and design expertise. Ford has cultivated relationships with top universities this year, including University of California-Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University, Santa Clara and San Jose State.

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Princeton Engineering Dean Hailed as IEEE Top Educator

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So it’s surprising to learn that she almost dropped out in her first year of the engineering program at the University of California, Berkeley. “By Strouse is now a math professor at the Institut de Matheématique at the University of Bordeaux, in France. She has had a long career in academia, is a science advisor to the U.S.

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Memory Chips That Compute Will Accelerate AI

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The new memory is designed to act as a “drop-in replacement” for ordinary HBM chips, said Nam Sung Kim , an IEEE Fellow, who was then senior vice president of Samsung’s memory business unit. Samsung chose a design that’s fast and simple. Other designs have put the AI logic on the interface chip or used more complex processing cores.

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Founder of MIT’s Microsystems Technology Labs Dies at 88

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He was instrumental in increasing the school's involvement in silicon integrated circuit design. As department head, Penfield invited Lynn Conway , who designed the very-large-scale integration chip, to come to MIT in 1978 as a visiting professor. She taught the first VLSI system design course at the school.

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