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Driving 13 miles across a state line could save a dollar per gallon of gasoline

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On July 5, 2022, two adjacent states had a unique relationship: they belonged to the two extreme AAA price groups, with Illinois in the highest price group and Kentucky in the lowest price group. The results indicate that the lowest price on July 5, 2022, at 9 am CDT in Massac County, Illinois, was $5.09 per gallon, while it was $4.08

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U of Illinois study shows reduced speed limits save lives in busy cities with minimal impact on travel time

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A new study from University of Illinois shows that speed reductions in São Paulo, Brazil, significantly reduced fatal accidents and increased travel times only minimally. The researchers spent nine months developing software that allowed them to analyze trip durations using data from Google Directions API. The study included 1.4

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Study finds GWP of electrolyzed hydrogen to meet ORD’s fuel needs would be 2.5x that of fossil fuels with 2020 grid mix

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Phil Ansell, an aerospace engineer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, modeled the life cycle carbon dioxide equivalent emissions of liquid hydrogen production required to meet the fuel needs of Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport (ORD) with today’s electric grid mix.

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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. The award is sponsored by Google. in systems engineering at Ohio State University , in Columbus. She then pursued a Ph.D.

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Announcing a Benchmark to Improve AI Safety

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Ahmed, Stanford UniversityElie Alhajjar, RAND Kurt Bollacker, MLCommons Siméon Campos, Safer AI Canyu Chen, Illinois Institute of Technology Ramesh Chukka, Intel Zacharie Delpierre Coudert, Meta Tran Dzung, Intel Ian Eisenberg, Credo AI Murali Emani, Argonne National Laboratory James Ezick, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

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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. And Amy’s work explores the creative relationships between machines and humans, as expressed through movement.

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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). In a 1994 ruling , U.S.

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