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Volkswagen Group and Stanford University Expanding their Research Cooperation

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The successes of Stanley and Junior—autonomous vehicles that won the DARPA Grand Challenge and Urban Challenge races—demonstrate that cooperation between science and industry can drive the development of significant new technologies, VW said. Tags: Brief.

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Almost $1.8B in US Funding to Support Energy Research; ARPA-E and Energy Frontier Research Centers

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ARPA-E is a new Department of Energy organization modeled after the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Tags: Policy Research. In addition, the Department of Energy announced $777 million in grants to establish 46 Energy Frontier Research Centers. Funding Opportunity Announcement for ARPA-E. Synopses of the 46 EFRCs.

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The Long View from SAE 2009 World Congress

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Lead the team that won the DARPA Grand Challenge in 2005 for developing a vehicle that could navigate and drive through a desert course without human intervention. Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency (CAFE) challenge. Luca Guala, Systemica. Responsible for designing the transportation system for the Citadel of Masdar.

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