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IEEE Power & Energy Society President Dies at 69

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After retiring from IBM in 2002, Williams volunteered at the Computer History Museum , in Mountain View, Calif. in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California , in Los Angeles. Ferreira's first job, in 1981, was at the Institute of Power Electronics and Electric Drives at Aachen University , in Germany.

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Inventor of AT&T’s Datakit, the First Virtual Connection Switch, Dies at 85

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He left there in 1966 to join the University of Cambridge as an assistant director of research. In 2002 Fraser retired and founded Fraser Research , in Princeton, N.J., He earned his bachelor’s degree in aeronautical engineering in 1958 from the University of Bristol , in England. where he continued his networking work.

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SiliconRepublic.com: IBM to build smart grid for electric cars - R&D

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Home Business Digital Life New Media Comms CIO R&D Government Careers Events E-Monday Video Audio Dublin: 18.04.2009 02:44 AM SiliconRepublic.com Irelands Technology News Service RSS News Alerts Subscribe Features Google reports record Q1 profits BT reveals 24Mbps service Yahoo!,

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Discover Le Havre, Where Impressionism Was Born

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She worked for a year with Donald Olson, a Texas State University astronomer and physics professor who used topographical, meteorological and astrological studies to calculate the precise date and time of its creation. Elaine Sciolino is a contributing writer and former Paris bureau chief for The New York Times, based in France since 2002.

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Plug-In Hybrids (or Plugin Hybrids)

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Plug-In Hybrids Are Cleaner (Even on a Coal Grid) [ to top ] This entire section is finally obsolete -- because we now have a definitive study by the Electric Power Research Institute and the Natural Resources Defense Council. Only PHEVs and battery EVs get cleaner as they get older - because the electric grid gets cleaner every decade.

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Speech Processing Pioneer Sadaoki Furui Dies at 77

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He earned bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in mathematical engineering and instrumentation physics from the University of Tokyo in 1968, 1970, and 1978, respectively. Department of Defense that leverages the research and expertise of faculty, staff, and student researchers from more than 20 collaborating universities.

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GM, Segway partner on two-wheel city vehicle | Green Tech - CNET News

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He started at CNET News in 2002, covering IT and Web development. Topics: Deals and investments , Transportation Tags: GM , Segway , city transportation , 2009 New York auto show Share: Digg Del.icio.us Good news is that there will be no need for a police accident report. E-mail Martin. Just a missing persons report.

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