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MIT study says combustion emissions cause ~200,000 premature deaths/year in US; vehicles and power generation top sources

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Source: MIT. Researchers from MIT’s Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment have concluded that ground-level PM 2.5 Steven Barrett, an assistant professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT, and colleagues have published their results in the journal Atmospheric Environment. Click to enlarge.

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This Engineer’s Hardware Is Inspired by the Brain

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That’s why Manan Suri has always looked to expand his horizons both professionally and personally. He studied and worked in Dubai, the United States, France, and Belgium over the course of his twenties. positions in the United States and Europe to work on conventional electronics projects.

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The Heart and the Chip: What Could Go Wrong?

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Legendary MIT roboticist Daniela Rus has published a new book called The Heart and the Chip: Our Bright Future with Robots. To me this character is a tremendous inspiration, yet I often remind myself that in the story, he begins his career as an MIT-­trained weapons manufacturer and munitions developer.

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Virtual Reality Helps Students Improve Their Math Literacy

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In the United States, eighth graders scored an average of 271 out of 500 in math on last year’s National Assessment of Educational Progress , as highlighted in a New York Times article. Thanks to Prisms of Reality , VR technology is being used in 140 school districts in 30 states. Many students struggle to learn mathematics.

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MITEI releases report on Electrification of the Transportation System

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The MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) has released a report on the proceedings—and papers that informed those proceedings—of the 8 April 2010 symposium on The Electrification of the Transportation System: Issues and Opportunities. The symposium was sponsored by the MIT Energy Initiative, together with Ormat, Hess, Cummins and Entergy.

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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

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No doubt professor Zadeh’s enthusiasm for fuzziness has been reinforced by the prevailing political climate in the United States—one of unprecedented permissiveness,” said R. Kalman in 1972, who is now a professor at Florida State University in Tallahassee. Another berated the theory’s scientific laxity. “No Kalman in 1972.

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The Vacuum Tube’s Forgotten Rival

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In the United States, mag amps had long been considered obsolete—“too slow, cumbersome, and inefficient to be taken seriously,” according to one source. million microfilmed pages back to the United States, along with almost 200 tonnes of German industrial equipment. After the war, U.S. under the name Deltamax.

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