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DOT issues discussion document on principles for a connected vehicle environment; safety as top priority

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The principles reflect the positions of the FHWA (Federal Highway Administration), NHTSA, and RITA at this time of adoption related to research, demonstration and implementation of a connected vehicle environment. Transportation Safety is the DOT’s top stated priority for the connected vehicle environment. Technical Functionality.

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Study suggests global impact of obesity may be extra ~700MT/y CO2eq: about 1.6% of worldwide GHG emissions

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A further challenge may be the size of the average person on the planet and the increasing number of people with excess body weight. Accordingly, reducing obesity may have considerable benefits for both public health and the environment. —Magkos et al. Swinburn wrote a commentary on the paper.

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John Bardeen’s Terrific Transistorized Music Box

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The Spurlock Museum/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Bell Labs used one of the boxes to demonstrate the transistor’s portability. Bardeen brought his box to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, when he joined the faculty in 1951. The other two music boxes went to Bardeen and Brattain. Only Bardeen’s survives.

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Get to Know the IEEE Board of Directors

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As a full professor and deputy president of the School of engineering at the University of Bologna in Italy, Metra specializes in design for test and reliability of integrated circuits and systems. Currently, he reviews technical documents for conferences, prizes, and international publications.

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Ford, UMTRI launch student contest for vehicle-to-vehicle communications innovation

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Ford and the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) are partnering on a competition for undergraduate students to develop innovative applications that enhance vehicle safety and sustainability by using vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications. The teams are not limited to personal cars or trucks.

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Daimler joining MIT CSAIL Alliance Program for AI work; cognitive vehicles

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Daimler has been expanding its network to universities with innovative instruments such as “Forschungscampus”, tech centers, shared professorships and industry fellowships and start-up incubators and accelerators. Unlike smartphones and wearables, the car would surround the person and become a surrounding for a digital experience.

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Explore Pioneering Software at the Computer History Museum

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the museum chronicles the impact of computing and technological innovation through artifacts and through archived films, photographs, and documents. The programming language and environment was developed at Xerox Parc , in Palo Alto, Calif. Located in Mountain View, Calif., One is David C.