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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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That was the case for Melba Crawford , who as a teenager couldn’t wait to leave her family’s farm in Illinois to pursue an engineering career. The award is sponsored by Google. But during her time as a freshman at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, the aerospace industry went through a period of mass layoffs.

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Making Boston Dynamics’ Robots Dance

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Amy LaViers is the director of the Robotics, Automation, and Dance Lab , or RAD lab, which she founded in 2015 as a professor in Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. I mean, it can be hard in that environment that people feel like their expertise is being given to the other side.

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

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Even something as simple as putting in an order at a McDonald’s drive-through in Illinois has raised legal questions about collecting biometric data without consent. In a 1994 ruling , U.S. Moreover, any technical limitations are compounded by the lack of standards.

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This Robot Could Be the Key to Helping People With Disabilities

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I imagined using it as a way to once again manipulate my physical environment after years of just lying in bed.” Edsinger then cofounded a robotics startup that was acquired by Google in 2013. I’d become frustrated with the complexity of the robots being built to do manipulation in home environments and around people,” says Edsinger.

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IEEE Celebrates Engineering Brilliance

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ALLEN MEDAL Sponsor: IBM DAVID KUCK University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign “For pioneering work in vector and parallel computer architecture, software, and compilers that enables many performance-sensitive applications.” IEEE MILDRED DRESSELHAUS MEDAL Sponsor: Google CLAIRE J. IEEE FRANCES E.

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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

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Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are This is a mirror of the map at Googles RechargeIt site (including icons for YouTube videos on both PHEVs and EVs). Jim Tech Ltd.

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