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IEEE’s Honor Society Gave This Boston University Student Tools to Succeed

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As a member of the Kappa Sigma chapter at Boston University , he learned leadership and communications skills while accepting different roles. Greene participated in several of the society’s student leadership conferences, where he was a presenter and keynote speaker.

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IEEE Offers New Transportation Platform With Advanced Analytics Tools

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Robust analytical tools NTDAS was built in partnership with INRIX , a transportation analytics solutions provider, and the University of Maryland ’s Center for Advanced Transportation Technology Laboratory , a leader in transportation science research. “IEEE is so diverse, and this state-of-the-art platform reflects that.”

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Study suggests global impact of obesity may be extra ~700MT/y CO2eq: about 1.6% of worldwide GHG emissions

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Meeting the needs of the increasing number of people on the planet presents a challenge for reducing total GHG burden. A further challenge may be the size of the average person on the planet and the increasing number of people with excess body weight. —Magkos et al. Swinburn wrote a commentary on the paper.

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Video Friday: Co-Expression

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Columbia engineers build Emo, a silicon-clad robotic face that makes eye contact and uses two AI models to anticipate and replicate a person’s smile before the person actually smiles—a major advance in robots predicting human facial expressions accurately, improving interactions, and building trust between humans and robots.

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This Engineer Is Helping to Make India a Global Semiconductor Hub

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Title Head, Renesas -Tata Consultancy Services Joint Innovation Center Member grade Senior member Alma maters Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, in Delhi, India; University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada “The idea is to enable more end-to-end solutions for India as well as other global markets,” he says. Sharma earned a Ph.D.

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Royal Academy of Engineering Report Says EV Success Depends on Low-Carbon Electricity, Universal Broadband Provision and Smart Grids

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The introduction of electric vehicles on a large scale in the UK can only have a beneficial effect on CO 2 emissions if low-carbon electricity, universal broadband provision and smart grids are in place to support the transition, according to a new report published by the UK Royal Academy of Engineering. Dr Chris Brace, Bath University.

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Listening In On Eye Movement

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That connection allows the auditory system to “listen” to the eyes, according to researchers at Duke University. But unless you move your head, that timing difference is not going to change,” says senior author Jennifer Groh , a psychology and neuroscience professor at Duke University. Every time our eyes move, so do our eardrums.