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MIT study says combustion emissions cause ~200,000 premature deaths/year in US; vehicles and power generation top sources

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Source: MIT. Researchers from MIT’s Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment have concluded that ground-level PM 2.5 Steven Barrett, an assistant professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT, and colleagues have published their results in the journal Atmospheric Environment. Click to enlarge.

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Video Friday: Ascento Pro

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ICRA 2022 – May 23-27, 2022 – Philadelphia, PA, USA Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today's videos. DeepRobotics ] MIT students and researchers from MIT Sea Grant work with local oyster farmers in advancing the aquaculture industry by seeking solutions to some of its biggest challenges.

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Former IEEE Chief Financial Officer Richard Schwartz Dies at 77

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He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in business administration from Iona University , in New Rochelle, N.Y. Mancino earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1951 from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J. A decade later he earned a master’s degree in engineering from Drexel University , in Philadelphia.

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Video Friday: Strandbeest

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ICRA 2022 : 23–27 May 2022, Philadelphia IEEE ARSO 2022 : 28–30 May 2022, Long Beach, Calif. Strandbeest ] MIT CSAIL scientists created an algorithm to solve one of the hardest tasks in computer vision: assigning a label to every pixel in the world, without human supervision. Wood from Harvard University. Good luck STEGO! [

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Video Friday: FridgeBot

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ICRA 2022 – May 23-27, 2022 – Philadelphia, PA, USA Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today's videos. MIT CSAIL ] NASA is sending a couple of robots to Venus in 2029! University of Bristol ] This a bottle unscrambler. Not the kind with legs or wheels, but still. But it's unscrambling them anyway. [

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Morris Tanenbaum, Inventor of the Silicon Microchip, Dies at 94

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A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , he also was a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of the MIT board of trustees. He received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1949 from Johns Hopkins University , in Baltimore, and earned a Ph.D. He joined the University of Illinois in 1977 as a professor.

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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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