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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. Dallesasse’s mentor at Illinois was Holoynak , whose mentor was Bardeen.

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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. CRAWFORD EMPLOYER Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. You study many areas in civil engineering, including structures, soils, transportation, and the environment,” she says.

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

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Coast Guard To verify the caller’s identity and solve the apparent crime, the Coast Guard’s investigative service emailed the files to Rita Singh , a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University and author of the textbook Profiling Humans From Their Voice (Springer, 2019). A 2020 U.S.

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Biomass fuels: challenges and opportunities – ET Auto

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The increase in global energy demands, diminution of fossil fuels , and its harmful effects on the environment have attracted the use of lignocellulosic biomass as an alternative sustainable source for chemicals, materials, and liquid fuels. Dr. Gogoi is also Asst. Professor of Chemistry at Nowgong College in Assam, India.

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Failed Local Paper Put Out Of Its Misery - By Creative Greenius!

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They never worked very hard and they spent way too much time making personal phone calls and just goofing off. Facts like this from his blog Climate Progress: The University of Illinois’ Arctic Climate Research Center — has become weary of having their data misreported by global warming deniers like Will.

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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. When you project too much on people, you lose the person, and that’s not really fair. That wasn’t what I was doing.

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This Robot Could Be the Key to Helping People With Disabilities

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It was a PR2 , from the robotics company Willow Garage, and Georgia Tech robotics professor Charlie Kemp was demonstrating how the PR2 was able to locate a person and bring them a bottle of medicine. I imagined using it as a way to once again manipulate my physical environment after years of just lying in bed.”

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