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€12M Current Direct project seeks to support marine electrification with swappable containerized battery system

Green Car Congress

By changing the model for acquiring and storing energy aboard vessels, Current Direct seeks to create a new energy economy, adding thousands of new jobs. The project is led by Spear Power Systems , makers of the world’s lightest, most flexible marine batteries certified to the most stringent international safety standards.

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The Godfather of South Korea’s Chip Industry

Cars That Think

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) assumed top posts in the industry as well as coveted positions teaching or researching semiconductors at universities and government institutes. He studied at Seoul National University and then at Columbia University, in New York City, where he earned his doctorate under.

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Letting in the Light

Electric Auto Association

His presentation won him an engineering scholarship to Duke University. You could buy an LEV, but you could only get it serviced at the store you bought it from. Gerhardt has taught the course across Europe and the Americas, while Gerhardt, Martin, and Smith, have taken the class to International bike conferences in the US and India.

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Why We Built a Neuromorphic Robot to Play Foosball

Cars That Think

For the past 25 years or so, those of us who seek to mimic the brain’s workings in silicon have held an annual workshop in the mountain town of Telluride, Colo. During the weeks of the workshop, you’ll usually find it surrounded by a cluster of neuromorphic engineers engaged in a friendly rivalry that has spanned many years.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

Cars That Think

His passion for the field led him from New York City’s used electronics stores to elite university laboratories, through the intense early years of the microprocessor revolution and the tumult of the video game industry, and ultimately to his job today: high-tech private eye. The project was given the internal moniker “4004.”

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