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Arizona State University Professor’s Work to Stabilize the Grid Pays Off

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He is a professor of power systems engineering in the Fulton program at Arizona State University , in Tempe. Vijay Vittal Employer Arizona State University, in Tempe Title Regents professor of electrical, computer, and energy engineering Member grade Life Fellow Alma mater B.M.S. in EE at Iowa State University , in Ames.

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The Marimba Virtuoso’s Desktop Planetarium

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Much like the traditional clockwork orreries of centuries past, this unit showed the motions of the planets and other celestial objects, with an overlay that revealed the moons, stars, and a few comets. The United States was at the time approaching “peak space.” The name stuck. Who was Clair Omar Musser? I was wrong.

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Tom Zhu becomes 1 of 4 key execs at Tesla

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Mr. Zhu holds a bachelor's degree of commerce in information technology from the Auckland University of Technology and an M.B.A. from Duke University. Zhu has been promoted to head Tesla's US assembly plants and sales operations in North America and Europe, Reuters said on January 3 , citing an internal report line announcement.

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Pioneer of Google’s Data Centers Dies at 58

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Barroso was born in Brazil and earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in 1989 in electrical engineering from Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. in computer engineering in 1996 from the University of Southern California. For his discoveries, Rao received the 2023 International Prize in Statistics.

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Landsat Proved the Power of Remote Sensing

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Toward the end, though, the speech took a curious and hopeful turn, as Nixon rhapsodized about the unifying potential of international cooperation in space exploration. As an example, he noted the United States was in the process of developing new satellites to survey Earth’s natural resources. billion in today’s dollars).

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Pollutant emitted by biomass burning found to cause DNA damage and lung cell death; the role of retene

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In fact, this manuscript is a sequel to an article published recently by our group characterizing in detail the chemical composition of the inhalable material whose health effects are investigated here. —de Oliveira Alves et al.

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How 5G’s Rollout Rattled Hundreds of Pilots

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In February, a passenger plane on approach to the Louis Armstrong International Airport in New Orleans experienced erratic low altitude warnings as it flew below 1,000 feet. In March, a commercial jet landing on autopilot at Los Angeles International Airport suddenly went into an aggressive descent just 100 feet above the ground. “I