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

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For AutoX, the partnership follows an important milestone of becoming the second company to be permitted by the California Public Utilities Commission to operate a RoboTaxi pilot program and launching their service xTaxi immediately thereafter (in the 95054 and 95134 areas of north San Jose/Santa Clara).

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Founder of MIT’s Microsystems Technology Labs Dies at 88

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Founder of MIT's Microsystems Technology Labs. Penfield's academic career at MIT spanned 45 years. After joining MIT as a professor in 1960, he moved up the ranks and served as associate head of the electrical engineering and computer science department from 1974 to 1978. Paul Penfield. Fellow, 88; died 22 June.

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Learn About the Candidates Running for 2023 President-Elect

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Tom Coughlin Harry Who Photography Coughlin is founder and president of Coughlin Associates , in San Jose, Calif., Coughlin is active in several other professional organizations including the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers and the Storage Networking Industry Association.

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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. Army Persian Gulf Command. Kalman in 1972.

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DOE to award more than $27M to 12 plastics recycling R&D projects

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The following projects were selected under Topic 2: Novel Methods for Deconstructing and Upcycling Existing Plastics: IBM Almaden Research Center (San Jose, CA) - Upcycling PET via the VolCat process – DOE Funding: $2,495,625. Partners include BASF, MIT, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

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3D Printed Solid-State Battery Rivals Lithium-Ion

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The company's 3D-printing platform is based on the binder jet printing process developed by MIT. The startup, based in San Jose, Calif., Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS). expects to advance from a prototype printer system to its first automated printer later this year.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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Honda Sees PHEVs as having "unnecessary fuel engine and fuel tank;" promises all-electrics "assuming we can come up with a really high-performing battery that we are working on currently." Cischke, Ford senior vice president for sustainability, environment and safety engineering. "By See Chevy Volt for latest.

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