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IEEE Honors Pioneering Engineers

Cars That Think

IEEE MILDRED DRESSELHAUS MEDAL Sponsor: Google ANANTHA CHANDRAKASAN MIT “For contributions to ultralow-power circuits and systems, and for leadership in academia and advancing diversity in the profession.” Kumar Texas A&M University College Station “For seminal contributions to the modeling, analysis, and design of wireless networks.”

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

Clean Fleet Report

Zipcars can be found in Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, New York, Philadelphia, Providence, Sacramento, San Diego, Zipcar users have a card that unlocks their local cars San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C. In the U.S.

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New York Turn On

Plug In Partners

Turn on the Electric Road By DAVID MORRIS Published: October 8, 2006 Minneapolis LAST summer, New York State took a page from California’s playbook, using state policy to jump-start a 21st century automobile industry. The recent announcements by New York State and Google , however, show the possibilities are real.

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L. Frank Baum’s Cautionary Tale About the Gifts of Electricity

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Norman considers the Character Marker an early foreshadowing of augmented-reality devices, and it definitely seems like a low-tech version of Google Glass or the new Facebook-backed Ray-Ban Stories. The illustration below as well as the book cover at top are from a first edition at the Bakken Museum , in Minneapolis.)

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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

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). Full size photo Mayor R.T.

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