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ARPA-E to award $14.5M to 5 projects to reduce energy use for transportation

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Many travelers’ and commuters’ transportation choices waste significant amounts of energy due to traffic complications, convenience and variability in transportation styles and preferences. city, such as Houston or San Francisco, as well as simulated data based on real-time and demographic information.

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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

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Favorite periodicals Four newspapers daily ( The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, The Wall St. That enabled him to be financially independent when he came to the United States to enroll in graduate school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge. studies there.

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Video Friday: Constant Gardener

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Constant Gardener ] via [ RobotStart ] Engineers at MIT and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have designed a soft, lightweight, and potentially low-cost neuroprosthetic hand. It's been a hectic couple of days, so here are some retired industrial robots quietly drawing lines in sand. ANYbotics ] Thanks Cheila!

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Video Friday: Constant Gardener

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Constant Gardener ] via [ RobotStart ] Engineers at MIT and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have designed a soft, lightweight, and potentially low-cost neuroprosthetic hand. It's been a hectic couple of days, so here are some retired industrial robots quietly drawing lines in sand. ANYbotics ] Thanks Cheila!

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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The first personal computer developed in the United States is commonly thought to be the MITS Altair, which sold as a hobbyist’s kit in 1976. The 1985 Siggraph art show in San Francisco alone received 4000 entries. No biological organism can live in its own waste products,” Kay said. “If Alvy Ray Smith. “No

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