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Toyota Research Institute launches next phase of collaborative research with 13 new academic institutions; more than $75M investment

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These universities join MIT, Stanford and the University of Michigan which have worked with TRI over the last five years to expand the body of research into artificial intelligence (AI) with the goal of amplifying the human experience. Indiana University. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Columbia University.

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Toyota expands Collaborative Safety Research Center with $35M; focus on transition to automated vehicle and connected vehicle technologies

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Toyota’s CSRC is partnering with Indiana University-Purdue to develop standardized test protocols for pedestrian pre-collision systems, including mannequins of different shapes and sizes that mimic real-world walking speeds and angles.

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Toyota’s Collaborative Safety Research Center launches 5-year, $35M program on autonomous and connected vehicle technologies

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Another, with MIT, modelled in-vehicle voice command systems and driver behavior. —Chuck Gulash, Director of CSRC. At launch, CSRC Next’s research portfolio includes eight projects in partnership with six schools.

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Former CEO of American Electric Power Dies at 94

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He earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, now Virginia Tech, and received a master's degree in industrial management as a Sloan Fellow at MIT. He was awarded an honorary doctorate in business administration by Indiana University in Bloomington.

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Exascale Computing Project (ECP) announces $39.8M in first-round application development awards

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Exascale Lattice Gauge Theory Opportunities and Requirements for Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Paul Mackenzie (FNAL) with BNL, TJNAF, Boston University, Columbia University, University of Utah, Indiana University, UIUC, Stony Brook, College of William & Mary.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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Partnering with Alcoa, Duke Energy, Google.org, Johnson Controls Indiana startup plans to unveil vehicle May 2009 at EVS-24 in Norway; mass production in 2012. But we want to give them cause to continue to press forward." ( MIT Technology Review ). And were encouraged that there are many companies pursuing different formulas for them.

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