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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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MIT study: half of US deaths related to air pollution are linked to out-of-state emissions

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More than half of all air-quality-related early deaths in the United States are a result of emissions originating outside of the state in which those deaths occur, MIT researchers report in a paper in the journal Nature. —study leader Steven Barrett, an associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT. Dedoussi, I.C.,

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Novel Li-metal electrode design could lead to more powerful solid-state batteries

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Researchers at MIT and their colleagues are proposing a new design for electrodes that, based on the long-sought goal of using pure lithium metal as the anode, could lead to longer-lived batteries with higher energy densities. The work was supported by the National Science Foundation.

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Former IEEE Chief Financial Officer Richard Schwartz Dies at 77

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Schwartz, an avid fan of the New York Yankees and Jets, loved to play golf. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in business administration from Iona University , in New Rochelle, N.Y. He briefly left the company in 1961 to join Cornell Dubilier of New Bedford, Mass., in computer science in 1967 from MIT.

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Video Friday: TurtleBot 4

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Silicon Valley Robot Block Party – October 23, 2021 – Oakland, CA, USA SSRR 2021 – October 25-27, 2021 – New York, NY, USA Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today's videos. We'll have more details on this next week, but there's a new TurtleBot, hooray!

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The Man Who Coined The Word "Robot" Defends Himself

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Čapek introduced robots to the world in 1921, when his play “ R.U.R. ” (subtitled “Rossum’s Universal Robots”) was first performed in Prague. 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.

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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

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Fuzzy theory is wrong, wrong, and pernicious,” said William Kahan, a highly regarded professor of computer sciences and mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley in 1975. Kalman in 1972, who is now a professor at Florida State University in Tallahassee. New York City, summer of 1944 Patents One U.S.