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APRIL 20, 2023

universities and colleges to use their engineering and technical skills to mitigate and address the impact of climate change in their communities. Delaine Access to fresh produce is challenging in many low-income neighborhoods. Six students from Arizona State University , in Tempe, created Project Lake Litter Solutions.

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JUNE 27, 2022

It’s been 25 years since University of Delaware energy and environmental expert Willett Kempton and Green Mountain College energy economist Steve Letendre outlined what they saw as a “dawning interaction between electric-drive vehicles and the electric supply system.” This is good for the grid. Their research partnership ran for four years.

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AUGUST 10, 2021

White served on the board of visitors at Virginia Tech and was vice rector and rector there. He also served as a director of the Virginia Tech Foundation. He was awarded an honorary doctorate in business administration by Indiana University in Bloomington. The OCCHC builds apartments and homes in low-income neighborhoods.

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DECEMBER 10, 2022

In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. And this incremental nature of innovation means that controlling the spread, manufacturing, and further development of new ideas is almost impossible.

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OCTOBER 30, 2022

Alcorn had majored in electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, but had never played a video game before. At the time, video games were mostly the domain of research laboratories and universities. His house was the first in the neighborhood to have a home version of Pong.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

What can engineers do if they’re concerned about algorithmic bias and other issues regarding AI ethics, but they work for a typical big tech company? Just as important is also acknowledging the gaps, so AI tools are not presented as working in a universal manner when they are optimized for just a specific context.

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