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UCSD team suggests building more fast-charging stations based on study of pandemic impact on EV charging

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A team of engineers at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) recommends expanding fast-charging stations for electric vehicles as campuses and businesses start planning for a post-pandemic world. As expected, charging declined significantly once most campus operations became remote.

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Help Build the Future of Assistive Technology

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This article is sponsored by California State University, Northridge (CSUN). AT, in its most basic form, is anything that helps a person achieve enhanced performance, improved function, or accelerated access to information. Request more information about the program here. California State University, Northridge (CSUN).

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Researchers map CO2 emissions for entire Los Angeles Megacity to help improve environmental policymaking

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The same is true for buildings. It’s the first megacity for which we’ve quantified emissions down to the scale of every building and roadway. We can provide the information to local governments and they can take immediate action. For example, about 60 percent of roadway emissions come from 10 percent of the roads.

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How Vannevar Bush Engineered the 20th Century

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Remarkably, given his intense wartime responsibilities, Bush continued to develop his own ideas about computing and information. Just days before the Trinity test, he had published in The Atlantic Monthly a futuristic account of networks of information knitted together via “associative trails”—which we would now call hypertext or hyperlinks.

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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., A member of the Cyber Security Hall of Fame , he is considered one of the most influential leaders in information security. he has made groundbreaking contributions to computer and network security.

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NYU review study suggests potential for gauging health risks of air pollution on individual level

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The level of practical use of these personal monitoring methods has not yet been developed to the point of directly impacting policy (e.g., There are challenges in enabling policies that limit personal exposures, but the likely improvements in health and welfare are potentially massive. —Caplin et al. Globally, 4.2

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Early-Career Telecom Engineer Is a Model of IEEE Engagement

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Muhammad Hamza Ihtisham Employer : Jazz in Lahore, Pakistan Title: Network experience specialist in radio Member grade: IEEE member Alma mater: University of the Punjab “I asked my parents and my principal for permission to switch my focus from medicine to computer science,” he says. That was a turning point for me,” he says.

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