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Sydney’s Tech Super-Cluster Propels Australia’s AI Industry Forward

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Sydney – home to half of Australia’s AI companies Sydney has been pinpointed as one of four urban super-clusters in Australia, featuring the highest number of tech firms and the most substantial research in the country. AI is infusing all areas of this tech landscape. For a country of just 25 million people, that is quite remarkable.”

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New Fiber Optics Tech Smashes Data Rate Record

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The assembled tech comprises six separate optical amplifiers that can squeeze optical signals through C-band wavelengths —the standard, workhorse communications band today—plus the less-popular L-, S-, and E-bands. “The But what matters most, he says, is the inherent utility of this tech for existing commercial-grade fiber.

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DOE, General Motors and MathWorks launch EcoCAR Mobility Challenge

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The US Department of Energy (DOE), General Motors and MathWorks launched the EcoCAR Mobility Challenge, the latest DOE-sponsored Advanced Vehicle Technology Competition ( AVTC ), revealed the 12 competing universities and named the Chevrolet Blazer as the vehicle platform selected for the competition. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

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Meet the Teens Whose Tech Reduces Drownings and Fights Air Pollution

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Kim project took first place in this year’s IEEE Presidents’ Scholarship competition: a prize of US $10,000 payable over four years of undergraduate university study. Ecosystem carbon exchange is the transfer of carbon dioxide between the atmosphere and the physical environment. She was awarded a $600 scholarship for her project.

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IEEE’s Honor Society Gave This Boston University Student Tools to Succeed

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As a member of the Kappa Sigma chapter at Boston University , he learned leadership and communications skills while accepting different roles. Greene participated in several of the society’s student leadership conferences, where he was a presenter and keynote speaker.

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Get to Know the IEEE Board of Directors

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Mathur also has experience managing and working on high-tech oil well logging systems, which analyze the properties of the subsurface to explore the possibility of hydrocarbons. Mathur is currently a professor of practice and a member of the academic council at Marwadi University , in Rajkot, India.

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Video Friday: ICRA Turns 40

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By Adam Hung, Uksang Yoo, Jonathan Francis, Jean Oh, and Jeffrey Ichnowski from CMU Robotics Insittute [ Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute ] Suction-based robotic grippers are common in industrial applications due to their simplicity and robustness, but [they] struggle with geometric complexity. By Patrick O’Brien, Jakub F.

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