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It’s an ideal location for JWST to observe the universe without obstruction and with minimal orbital adjustments. Menzel can remember, for instance, ideas for laser-based optical systems that were invariably rejected. “I It’s a point of gravitational equilibrium located about 1.5

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One way to think of neural networks is by analogy with neurons, or nodes, and synapses, or connections between those nodes. In traditional neural networks, called multi-layer perceptrons (MLPs) each synapse learns a weight—a number that determines how strong the connection is between those two neurons.

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Like many innovators, Hagit Messer-Yaron had a life-changing idea while doing something mundane: Talking with a colleague over a cup of coffee. The IEEE Life Fellow, who in 2006 was head of Tel Aviv University ’s Porter School of Environmental Studies , was at the school’s cafeteria with a meteorological researcher.

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The YESIST 12 program provides students and young professionals with a platform to showcase ideas for addressing humanitarian and social issues affecting their communities. He organizes webinars, meetings, and other initiatives, including connecting fellow student members with engineering professionals for mentorship.

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The aim is to take connected car, driver assistance and infrastructure electronics to the next level of providing detailed information so motorists have a better sense of the driving conditions surrounding them. With this initiative, the universities, ERL and Audi want to cover the complete process of navigating in a megacity.

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The AIEE had decided to conduct a live national meeting connecting more than 5,000 attendees in eight cities across four time zones. Alexander Graham Bell then gave a few words in greeting and remarked that he was glad to see how far the telephone had gone beyond his initial idea. This was no ordinary gathering.

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The achievement required a specialized amputation surgery combined with a non-invasive surface electrode connection to a robotic prosthetic lower leg. The procedure involves connecting pairs of muscles (in the case of below-the-knee amputation, two pairs), as well as the introduction of proprietary synthetic elements.

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JULY 30, 2021

Just about every device you own is probably available with Internet connectivity. needs Internet connectivity is up for debate. Connectivity usually comes at a premium, and it also usually involves buying a brand new whatever it is, because new hardware and software and services are required. Or, that was the idea, anyway.

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Researchers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University may have found a way to revitalize rechargeable lithium batteries, potentially boosting the range of electric vehicles and battery life in next-gen electronic devices. —Yi Cui.

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“We’re talking roughly hundreds of gigatonnes of discrepancy if you don’t include these marine snow tails,” says Manu Prakash , a bioengineer at Stanford University and one of the paper’s authors. The work was conducted by researchers at Stanford, Rutgers University in New Jersey, and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts.

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At CES 2015 in January, Ford CEO Mark Fields announced “Ford Smart Mobility”—a plan to use innovation to take Ford to the next level in connectivity, mobility, autonomous vehicles, the customer experience and big data. Big Data Connected vehicles Mobility services Sensors Urban mobility' Earlier post.) Shoup, Donald.

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Digital audio’s place in our Internet-connected world is just as important as still images and video. with his grandson and encouraged young Nasir to emigrate there when it was time to further his studies after he earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering at University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering in Bengaluru in 1961.

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Plotnick, an associate professor of Cinema and Media Studies at Indiana University in Bloomington, is the leading expert on buttons and how people interact with them. The pervasiveness of the button as a technology pitted against this idea of buttons disappearing seemed like such an interesting dichotomy to me.

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The Mobility Center is envisioned as a public-private partnership of governmental entities, leading universities, electric utilities, technology and automotive companies, and venture capitalists. The Mobility Center will build on the ATOS model by providing a full life cycle suite of services from idea all the way to market.

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The new initiative started with a hackathon which took place on 10-11 December, on the Campus of XU Exponential University in Potsdam, Germany, in order to adapt the “Tuban Xiong” app to the requirements of the German market. Five teams created five completely new and different ideas.

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The ARPANET Is Born Kahn wasn’t the only one thinking about connecting disparate computers in the 1960s. In 1965, Larry Roberts, then at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory , connected one computer in Massachusetts to another in California over a telephone line. 1962 and Ph.D. I wasn’t hired to do anything in particular,” Kahn says.

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A team at the University of Oregon is working to give bicyclists smoother rides by allowing them to communicate with traffic signals via a mobile app. The latest report to come out of this multi-project research effort introduces machine-learning algorithms to work with their mobile app FastTrack.

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For the past three months, Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn had been working together on a problem Kahn had been pondering for some time: how to connect ground-based military computers seamlessly to communications satellites and mobile radios. And there was something utterly beguiling about this idea.” During high school in Van Nuys, Calif.,

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The first of the NSFCloud projects will support the design, deployment and initial operation of “Chameleon,” a large-scale, reconfigurable experimental environment for cloud research, co-located at the University of Chicago and The University of Texas at Austin. Chameleon will consist of 650 cloud nodes with 5 petabytes of storage.

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Mathur is currently a professor of practice and a member of the academic council at Marwadi University , in Rajkot, India. She also works to ensure digital connectivity for underserved populations and creating fair and private AI algorithms to aid human ingenuity.

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Engineers ran with the discovery, developing technology that NASA could use to send back clear pictures from space, giving us glimpses of universes far beyond our line of sight. The term futurist has a long connection with science fiction, going back to the early 20th century, personified in such figures as writer H.G.

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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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Before the development of USB (Universal Serial Bus), it was often tricky to connect external devices. The Universal Serial Bus, which was released in 1996 by Intel , simplified things. Bhatt was passionate about his idea, though, so he decided to join a different research team at Intel. His manager wasn’t interested. “I

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Researchers at Northwestern University , Evanston, Ill., and the University of Sussex , Brighton, England, have created prototypes of new environmentally sustainable devices that can monitor blood pressure and heartbeat, or heal persistent afflictions such as diabetic ulcers.

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Zach Rattner Employer: Yembo Occupation: Chief technology officer and cofounder Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, Virginia Tech “I’m making a dent in the universe,” he says. “We How Yembo grew out of a family business Rattner has his wife to thank for his startup idea. We are bringing about change.

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Part of the problem is that robots, generally, just do whatever they’ve been programmed to do, and for a human, there’s typically no feeling that the robot is in the slightest bit interested in making any sort of non-functional connection.

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The move is part of an expansion of an innovative program designed to drive the future of mobility, announced the University of Michigan Center for Entrepreneurship, in partnership with the U-M Mobility Transformation Center. The students help bring connected and driverless innovations closer to market.

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Much like jazz musicians improvising, engineers go with the flow at team meetings, he says: One person comes up with an idea, and another suggests ways to improve it. in electrical engineering from Southern Methodist University , in Dallas, de Geus joined General Electric in Research Triangle Park, N.C.

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Prousalidis, a professor of marine electrical engineering at the National Technical University of Athens , has played a pivotal role in developing standards for seaport electrification through his involvement with the IEEE , the International Electrical Commission (IEC), and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).

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Ford and the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) are partnering on a competition for undergraduate students to develop innovative applications that enhance vehicle safety and sustainability by using vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications. Idea submissions are due December 1.

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Richard Massey, Durham University, England “For all of the elements on the periodic table, there’s about six times as much dark matter,” says Richard Massey , a professor of physics at Durham University in England. It’s like streaming Netflix down from the edge of space.” She began working on SuperBIT as a doctoral student of Massey.

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Symeon Chatzinotas , the head of the University of Luxembourg’s SigCom research group. Users looking to connect via satellite won’t need the bulky, expensive commercial satphones that have been available since the late 1990s —but they also won’t have conventional calling or high-bandwidth data streaming just yet.

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The selected organizations (and project descriptions) from this first call selection are: University of Connecticut. Penn State University. The proposed idea is to build a small scale process simulator, with both machinery and software components, which mimics aspects of a smart manufacturing system for educational purposes.

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Among other things, the idea is to modify the materials used for marker posts and guardrails so that they reflect radar waves better than at present—from a greater distance, and in snow and rain too. The “Car2Infrastructure” communication project connects the car with variable message road signs that are online.

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Generally, manufacturers are striving to increase the density of the vertical connections between chips. Three problems have dogged the idea that 2D semiconductors could take over from silicon. Another interesting AI scheme coming up at IEDM originates with researchers at Tsinghua University and Peking University.

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The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Tongji University in Shanghai are researching standardizable methods for joint technology development in dispersed locations. The spatial separation of the developers makes the use of the latest technologies and faster data connections necessary.

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I worked on this idea for months before I decided it was a mistake. The second time I heard someone mention it, I thought, “That’s strange, these two groups had the same idea. I call this idea “The Mythical Non-Roboticist.” The Mistake The idea goes something like this: Programming robots is hard.

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