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MIT study: people globally follow a “visitation law”; inverse relationship between distance and frequency of visits

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A new paper by an MIT team and colleagues in Singapore, China, Italy and Denmark, drawing on global data, finds that people visit places more frequently when they have to travel shorter distances to get there. —Paolo Santi, a research scientist at the Senseable City Lab at MIT and co-author.

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Lyft and nuTonomy form strategic R&D partnership to optimize passenger experience in self-driving cars

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Flynn Marine Park and the adjacent Seaport and Fort Point neighborhoods. The collaborative R&D effort will take place in Boston, MA, where nuTonomy has been testing its self-driving electric cars since the beginning of the year. Earlier post.) The tests are being conducted in Boston’s Raymond L. Earlier post.). Founded by Drs.

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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. The OCCHC builds apartments and homes in low-income neighborhoods. He also was a member of the IEEE–Eta Kappa Nu honor society.

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Former Berkeley Dean of Engineering David A. Hodges Dies at 85

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He earned a master’s degree in aeronautics and astronautics in 1977 from MIT and a Ph.D. He consulted on large-scale power generation and delivery, helping bring electricity to neighborhoods in more than 60 countries during his career. in applied mathematics in 1980 from Harvard. for 37 years. as an engineer.

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The Long View from SAE 2009 World Congress

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the session counted among its panelists: Professor John Heywood, Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Sloan Auto Laboratory at MIT. Weiss, M., “ On the Road in 2035: Reducing Transportation’s Petroleum Consumption ans GHG Emissions ,” MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment, Report No. Bandivadekar, A.,

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Why AI Should Move Slow and Fix Things

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Joy Buolamwini ‘s AI research was attracting attention years before she received her PhD from the MIT Media Lab in 2022. As a graduate student, she made waves with a 2016 TED talk about algorithmic bias that has received more than 1.6 million views to date.