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MIT, GE, Audi launch HubCab Project in New York City

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MIT, in partnership with Audi and GE, has launched HubCab —a transportation tracking tool aimed at reducing commuting congestion, decreasing vehicle emissions and lowering the cost of mobility infrastructure. HubCab tracks more than 150 million taxi rides in New York City over the course of a year.

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Study: Workplace EV charging could cut need for more power plants

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Thorough planning of EV charging station placement, specifically with a greater emphasis on workplace charging, could cut the need for more power plants, according to a new MIT study.

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MIT CSAIL, Cornell study finds rides-sharing theoretically could cut taxi traffic in NYC by 75%

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A new modeling study by a team from MIT CSAIL (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory) and Cornell suggests that using ride-sharing from companies like Uber and Lyft theoretically could reduce the number of taxis on the road in New York City by 75% without significantly impacting travel time.

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MIT-led study suggests mobile-phone data provide a deeper picture of pollution exposure in urban settings

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A study led by MIT researchers, focused on New York City, suggests that using mobile-phone data to track people’s movement provides an even deeper picture of exposure to pollution in urban settings than by studying air-quality levels in fixed places. —Nyhan et al.

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Former IEEE Chief Financial Officer Richard Schwartz Dies at 77

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Mancino Former manager of engineering reliability at RCA Life senior member, 93; died 24 September For most of his career, Mancino worked as an engineer at RCA , which was headquartered in New York City. He probably was best known for developing Macsyma , MIT Project MAC’s symbolic manipulator. While serving in the U.S.

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The Man Who Coined The Word "Robot" Defends Himself

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It was performed in New York City the next year, and by the year after that, it had been translated into 30 languages. Published by The MIT Press. Copyright © 2024 MIT. If not, you should be—he’s the guy who (along with his brother Josef) invented the word “robot.” Excerpted from R.U.R. All rights reserved.

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Video Friday: Robot Soccer Finals

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The new gripping system combines passive mechanical compliance with a hybrid electrostatic-adhesive pad so that humanoid robots can grasp a wide range of materials including paperboard and textured plastics. Paper ] MIT CSAIL grad students speak about what they think is the most important unsolved problem in computer science today. [

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