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UC San Diego launches Institute for Materials Discovery and Design

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The University of California San Siego (UCSD) has formed the San Diego Institute for Materials Discovery and Design, a joint initiative of the Jacobs School of Engineering and Division of Physical Sciences at UCSD. The Institute will build on UC San Diego resources such as the Nano3 Facility and the San Diego Supercomputer Center.

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SAE and ISO publish joint automotive cybersecurity standard

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The standard helps the industry define a structured process to ensure cybersecurity is incorporated into the design of road vehicles, including systems, components software and connections of any external device or network. The methods can be called systematically and from any point in the lifecycle of an item or component.

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U.S. Universities Are Building a New Semiconductor Workforce

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TSMC), which was already building a $12 billion fab in Arizona , upped the investment to $40 billion with a second plant. economy, there’s a potential problem: Where will the industry find the qualified workforce needed to run these plants and design the chips they’ll make? Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing C o.

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Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the Transistor With IEEE

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The transistor, the basic building block of the electronics industry, was developed in 1947 by. IEEE Electron Devices Society is holding seminars and panel discussions at IEEE conferences, as well as presenting webinars, giving away prizes, and organizing other events from now until the end of next year. to replace the vacuum tube.

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Video Friday: Venus Aerobot

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With six degrees of freedom, an optimized strength-to-weight ratio, embedded intelligence, and a sleek hardware design that can withstand extreme temperatures and environmental conditions (IP66), the Sapien robotic arm can be used for a variety of complex outdoor and indoor applications. In theaters 4 Nov. I’d like to change that.

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Video Friday: Drone in a Cage

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If you think of the Elios 2 as your classic flip phone, only designed to make phone calls, the Elios 3 is the smartphone. This week’s GRASP on Robotics seminar is from Katherine Kuchenbecker at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, on haptics and physical human-robot interaction. “A Flyability ]. Drone Days ].

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This Engineer Became a Star in Technology Publishing

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A couple of years later, at age 35, he became a full-time editor at Electronic Design. In April 1993, IEEE Spectrum won a National Magazine Award for its reporting on Iraq’s effort to build an atomic bomb. In those days, the IEEE occupied a couple of floors in a building on the northwest corner of 47th Street and First Ave.,

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