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Engineers Are Working on a Solar Microgrid to Outlast Lunar Nights

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The habitation unit will be about the same size as the International Space Station , the mining and processing center a bit larger, with a distance of around 10 kilometers between them, Rashkin says. All of the testing and tweaking will take place at Sandia’s Secure Scalable Microgrid Testbed , in Albuquerque. “We

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Turing Award Winner On His Pioneering Algorithms

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He received US $1 million as part of the award, which is known as the Nobel Prize of computing. he left the lab to study applied mathematics at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. I’ve prospered in that environment. For his work, he was honored this year with the 2021 A.M. Software for Supercomputers.

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Fast, Efficient Neural Networks Copy Dragonfly Brains

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In my research at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, I study the brains of one of these larger insects, the dragonfly. Initially, I worked in Matlab simply because that was the coding environment I was already using. Consider the brains of those ants in your pantry. Each has some 250,000 neurons.

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