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Boeing to acquire Aurora Flight Sciences to advance autonomous technology capabilities

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Headquartered in Manassas, Virginia, Aurora has more than 550 employees and operates in six states in the U.S. It will retain an independent operating model while benefiting from Boeing’s resources and position as a leading provider of aerospace products and services.

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MIT/CalTrans study finds pavement-vehicle interaction accounts for 1% of overall fuel consumption on California highways

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“While a passenger car wouldn’t achieve significant gas savings, road stiffness could make an enormous difference for 40-ton trucks, with up to 4 percent gas mileage savings,” said MIT professor of civil and environmental engineering Franz-Josef Ulm, faculty director of CSHub, in an interview with Engineering News-Record (ENR) magazine. “If

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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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Former CEO of American Electric Power Dies at 94

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He worked in managerial positions in New York, Ohio, and Virginia, then became AEP's chief executive in 1976 and served in that role until he retired in 1991. White served on the board of visitors at Virginia Tech and was vice rector and rector there. He also served as a director of the Virginia Tech Foundation.

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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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Over the last three years, CSRC has launched 34 research projects with 17 partner institutions, including The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; George Washington University; MIT Age Lab; Ohio State University; Stanford University; Transportation Active Safety Institute; UC San Diego; University of Iowa; University of Michigan Transportation Research (..)

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Toyota’s Collaborative Safety Research Center launches 5-year, $35M program on autonomous and connected vehicle technologies

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Another, with MIT, modelled in-vehicle voice command systems and driver behavior. At launch, CSRC Next’s research portfolio includes eight projects in partnership with six schools.

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Nissan says it will have first commercially-viable autonomous drive vehicles by 2020; across the range in 2 vehicle generations

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Nissan said that its engineers have been carrying out intensive research on the technology for years, alongside teams from universities including MIT, Stanford, Oxford, Carnegie Mellon and the University of Tokyo. Nissan Motor Co.,

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