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BMW providing 10 pre-owned i3 EVs to UC Davis for 18 months

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We’re moving toward a transportation system of reduced personal car ownership. This is one slice of conditioning the market, users and institutions like this university to think along those lines. They will also conduct surveys to determine how people’s opinions change about electric vehicles before and after driving one.

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Eugene H. Spafford: Malware Nemesis

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Spafford ’s more than three decades as professor of computer sciences at Purdue University , in West Lafayette, Ind., Indeed, the field didn’t really exist when he graduated from the State University of New York at Brockport with a bachelor’s degree in math and computer science in 1979. During Eugene H.

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AI’s Threats to Jobs and Human Happiness Are Real

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One such effort is a book that came out last fall called AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future. The book is co-written by. Universal basic income. Charles Simonyi , the person who created Microsoft word. In the book, you say that an entirely new social contract is needed. Kai-Fu Lee on….

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Nasir Ahmed: An Unsung Hero of Digital Media

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Those Zoom meetings that took the place of in-person gatherings for school or work during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic? Digital audio’s place in our Internet-connected world is just as important as still images and video. He stayed in that job until he retired from the University in 2001 and was named professor emeritus.

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The Portrait Artist

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Perry prefers to meet in person in order to develop a human connection. That rapport lets her subjects open up, giving readers a glimpse of their personalities, motivations, and attitudes. I generally leave feeling I actually connected with the person, that it was more than just a Q&A.” Education: B.A.,

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Remembering Roberto Saracco, President of EIT Digital

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Saracco also taught courses on technology forecasting and market impact at the University of Trento in Italy. students from European universities to help them transform their research into marketable products and solutions. Roberto had a unique talent for recognizing and valuing the best in each person.

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Lewis H. Latimer: A Life of Lightbulb Moments

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Latimer literally wrote the book on electric lighting at Edison’s urging: Incandescent Electric Lighting: A Practical Description of the Edison System was published in 1890 by the Van Nostrand Company, a leading publisher of trade, technical, and scientific books in the 19th century. Supreme Court, in the 1857 Dred Scott v.

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