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NEVS and AutoX to collaborate on large-scale RoboTaxi deployment in Europe

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For AutoX, the partnership follows an important milestone of becoming the second company to be permitted by the California Public Utilities Commission to operate a RoboTaxi pilot program and launching their service xTaxi immediately thereafter (in the 95054 and 95134 areas of north San Jose/Santa Clara).

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Founder of MIT’s Microsystems Technology Labs Dies at 88

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Founder of MIT's Microsystems Technology Labs. Penfield's academic career at MIT spanned 45 years. After joining MIT as a professor in 1960, he moved up the ranks and served as associate head of the electrical engineering and computer science department from 1974 to 1978. He also established MIT's master's degree in engineering.

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Learn About the Candidates Running for 2023 President-Elect

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Tom Coughlin Harry Who Photography Coughlin is founder and president of Coughlin Associates , in San Jose, Calif., In 1989 and 1990, he was a visiting research scientist at MIT. The winner of this year’s election will serve as IEEE president in 2024. Life Fellow Thomas Coughlin Nominated by the IEEE Board of Directors.

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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. Army Persian Gulf Command.

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DOE to award more than $27M to 12 plastics recycling R&D projects

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The following projects were selected under Topic 2: Novel Methods for Deconstructing and Upcycling Existing Plastics: IBM Almaden Research Center (San Jose, CA) - Upcycling PET via the VolCat process – DOE Funding: $2,495,625. Partners include BASF, MIT, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

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3D Printed Solid-State Battery Rivals Lithium-Ion

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The company's 3D-printing platform is based on the binder jet printing process developed by MIT. The startup, based in San Jose, Calif., (Lithium-ion batteries, by contrast, use organic liquids as electrolytes, which heightens the risk of batteries catching on fire.)

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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San Jose Mercury News ). But we want to give them cause to continue to press forward." ( MIT Technology Review ). The potential [of plug-in hybrids] is terrific." ( MIT Technology Review ) 11/30/06 "We want it as much as anybody else, but there are limits right now in terms of technology. Bloomberg News ). Marketwatch ).

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