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MIT/UC Davis professors challenge claims that ethanol production decreased gasoline prices in 2010 and 2011

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Two professors from MIT and UC Davis have released a paper challenging the recent claims by the Renewable Fuel Association (RFA) and US Secretary of Agriculture Vilsack that ethanol production decreased gasoline prices by $0.89 Christopher Knittel at MIT and Assoc. and statistically insignificant. in 2010 and 2011, respectively.

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MIT researchers build model simulating atmospheric transport of PAHs; how chemicals get to the Arctic

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MIT researchers have built a model to simulate long-range atmospheric transport of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). GEOS-Chem captures observed seasonal trends with no statistically significant difference between simulated and measured mean annual concentrations.

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The Long View from SAE 2009 World Congress

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the session counted among its panelists: Professor John Heywood, Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Sloan Auto Laboratory at MIT. Professor Robert Cervero, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California-Berkeley. Professor Sebastian Thrun, Stanford University. Earlier post.)].

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

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Structured VLSI design, now taught in more than 100 universities. And unlike university research laboratories, PARC had one unifying vision: it would develop “the architecture of information.” Pake was executive vice chancellor, provost, and professor of physics at Washington University in St. Laser printers.

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Study finds attribute-based fuel economy standards less effective and more costly than flat standard with credit trading

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As the Trump administration weighs how to revise fuel economy standards, a new study by research fellows of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) finds that attribute-based regulations—such as the footprint-based rules in the US—are less effective and more costly than a flat standard with credit trading.

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Remembering Data Compression Pioneer Jacob Ziv

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He moved to the United States to attend MIT , where he earned a Ph.D. While at MIT, he held a part-time job as a research engineer in the applied science division at U.S. At the Technion and at Bell, Ziv conducted research in data compression, information theory, and statistical communications. in electrical engineering in 1962.

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