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BASF launches advanced materials research initiative with Harvard, MIT and UMass; focus on automotive, energy, and building and construction

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BASF SE has launched the “North American Center for Research on Advanced Materials—a research collaboration with Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst. of MIT, and Todd Emrick, Ph.D. and Dave Weitz, Ph.D. and Mary Boyce, Ph.D.

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Liquid Metal Battery Corp secures patent rights from MIT

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Liquid Metal Battery Corporation (LMBC), a Cambridge, Massachusetts company founded in 2010 to develop new forms of electric storage batteries that work in large, grid-scale applications, has secured the rights to key patent technology from MIT. Patents for all liquid metal battery inventions were licensed from MIT.

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NASA awards $16.5M to four teams for additional research into reducing aircraft fuel consumption, emissions and noise

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Under the new contracts, the teams will now develop concepts and models that can be tested in computer simulations, laboratories and wind tunnels. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Mass., Under the contract, the team will design, construct and test wind tunnel mockups and computer models of the airplane.

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This Fusion Reactor Is Held Together With Tape

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Gretchen Ertl/CFS/MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center CFS, a startup spun out of decades of research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is among the leaders of a new wave of fusion-energy projects that have emerged in the past decade, taking advantage of technological advances as well as a surge in private-sector investment.

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DOE announces $11.5M in Phase 1 funding for carbon capture and storage program; ARPA-E FLECCS

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At the conclusion of the Phase 1 period, teams will be down-selected based on an engineering design review and the projected economic impact of their Phase 1 projects on a future electricity grid. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In FLECCS Phase 2, up to $31 million in additional funding will be available for teams.

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FAA Awards Contracts for $125M to 5 Companies to Accelerate More Environmentally Friendly Aviation Technology; Renewable Fuels, Engines, Wings and Flight Management

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The CLEEN program helps develop environmentally friendly and energy efficient aircraft and engine technology that could be introduced into the commercial aircraft fleet. The five contracts are expected to total $125 million over the five-year span of the program.

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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

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His career goal, for as long as he can remember, was to be an engineering professor. Rather, he thought of scientific and engineering research as a type of religion, practiced at universities. Zadeh received an electrical engineering degree from the University of Tehran in 1942. Zadeh Date of Birth Feb. Kalman in 1972.