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JULY 7, 2022

According to Google Maps , the shortest driving distance between the two specific gas stations in question is 13.1 Michael Sivak is the managing director of Sivak Applied Research and the former director of Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan. per gallon, while it was $4.08 in McCracken County, Kentucky.

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MAY 17, 2022

The first generation bikes were met with nearly universal acclaim for their sleek design and high-quality manufacturing. Now the company is back to announce its second generation e-bikes, this time touting a new partnership with Google Cloud.

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OCTOBER 7, 2020

Working with collaborators at the University of Michigan and Toyota Motor North America, the team is sponsored by the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) as part of its Next-Generation Energy Technologies for Connected and Automated On-Road Vehicles (NEXTCAR) program. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2012

As part of the Honda Electric Vehicle Demonstration Program, Honda will test the Fit EV with Google Inc. and Stanford University, in addition to the City of Torrance, California. Each program participant will provide Honda with real-world feedback on the Fit EV.

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DECEMBER 6, 2019

Volkswagen’s system relies on the D-Wave quantum annealer, a different kind of machine than the universal quantum computers under development by other firms, including Google. —Thomas Bartol, senior vice president of Information Technology and Services for Volkswagen Group of America.

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JANUARY 7, 2013

The first license went to Google; in December 2012, the state also awarded a testing license to automotive supplier Continental. That Audi research car, developed jointly by the Volkswagen Group Electronics Research Lab in Silicon Valley and Stanford University, autonomously completed the 156-turn, 12.42-mile Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2013

Wheelz first introduced its service on college and university campuses throughout California before expanding to the urban centers of San Francisco and Los Angeles. RelayRides has raised more than $13 million in venture capital funding from investors including Google Ventures, August Capital, Shasta Ventures and General Motors Ventures.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

He has also advised numerous companies—including Google Self-Driving Cars/Waymo for over a decade. After leaving GM in 2009, Dr. Burns was a Professor of Engineering Practice at the University of Michigan (2011-2015), and Director of the Program for Sustainable Mobility at Columbia University (2010-2014).

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JANUARY 6, 2014

Amprius’ technology was initially developed at Professor Yi Cui’s laboratory at Stanford University; Prof. Amprius’ Series A and B investors include Trident Capital, VantagePoint Capital Partners, IPV Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Chinergy Capital, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt, and Stanford University.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2013

The first participants included Google, Hertz Rent-a-Car, Duke Energy and Clemson University, with installations in the Spring of 2012. Participants represent various industries, from car rental agencies to corporate campuses to utility providers, with installations in locations across the United States.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2012

The giant miscanthus was developed at the University of Mississippi and provided from a high yield plot by Repreve Renewables. Investors in CoolPlanet include BP, Shea Ventures, General Electric, Google Ventures, ConocoPhillips, NRG and North Bridge Venture Partners. —Mike Cheiky, Cool Planet’s founder and CEO. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 8, 2013

That’s the goal of the Mobility Transformation Center, a cross-campus University of Michigan initiative that also involves government and industry representatives. —Peter Sweatman, director of the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI). Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Teslarati

MAY 13, 2021

In an announcement on Thursday, Google announced that its cloud unit had won a deal to supply computing and networking resources to SpaceX. With this deal in place, Google would be able to help deliver internet services through Starlink’s satellite network. . “This is one of a kind.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2012

RelayRides is backed by more than $13 million in venture capital funding from investors including Google Ventures and GM Ventures. Fleura Bardhi (Northeastern University) and Giana M. University) interviewed users of the Zipcar car sharing service and found that. Challenges with access-based consumption. Eckhardt (Suffolk.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2020

A study by researchers at The Ohio State University suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic had varying effects on demand for public transit in US cities. —Liu et al. Fitted curve and key parameters for an example public transit agency (Capital Metro in Austin, Texas).

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NOVEMBER 4, 2011

By accelerating the development of new materials, we can drive discoveries that not only help power clean energy, but also are used in common consumer products.

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JANUARY 6, 2013

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers are showing that data culled from geosocial networks such as the GPS traffic app Waze can help prevent traffic incidents with better deployment of police resources at the most accident-prone areas.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 3, 2024

Every time you use your voice to generate a message on a Samsung Galaxy mobile phone or activate a Google Home device, you’re using tools Chanwoo Kim helped develop. He recently left Samsung to continue his work in the field at Korea University , in Seoul, leading the school’s speech and language processing laboratory.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Stanford University scientists have identified a new solid-state Li-ion electrolyte predicted to exhibit simultaneously fast ionic conductivity, wide electrochemical stability, low cost, and low mass density. Other co-authors are Ekin Cubuk at Google Brain, and Brian Francisco and Josh Buettner-Garret at Solid Power, Inc.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Phil Ansell, an aerospace engineer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, modeled the life cycle carbon dioxide equivalent emissions of liquid hydrogen production required to meet the fuel needs of Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport (ORD) with today’s electric grid mix.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Luiz André Barroso Data center pioneer Senior member, 59; died 16 September An engineer at Google for more than 20 years, Barroso is credited with designing the company’s warehouse-size data centers. in computer engineering in 1996 from the University of Southern California. He then moved to Los Angeles, where he earned a Ph.D.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 21, 2024

On 4 March, Google and XPrize announced a US $5 million prize to anyone who comes up with use cases for quantum computers. If that sounds like an admission that use cases don’t already exist, it isn’t, says Ryan Babbush, head of quantum algorithms at Google. “We How can we use quantum computers to tackle the world’s big problems?”

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2019

A new University of California, Irvine-led pilot study finds , on average, Waze “crash alerts” occur two minutes and 41 seconds prior to their corresponding California Highway Patrol (CHP)-reported crash. These minutes could mean the difference between life and death. A paper on the work is published in JAMA Surgery. doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2019.1167.

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MAY 14, 2016

In October 2015, Google Deutschland acquired a share in DFKI—making it the only research company in Europe to have Google's participation as an industry partner through a capital investment and a seat on the supervisory board. Google Germany GmbH. Saarland University. University of Bremen. CLAAS Group. John Deere.

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JULY 31, 2016

The Financial Times reports that Uber will invest $500 million into a global mapping project in an effort to decrease its dependence on Google Maps and to prepare for autonomous driving. Uber has already hired Brian McClendon, formerly the head of Google Maps for more than a decade. —Brian McClendon. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 26, 2023

In 2022, a schism in the chip design world and at Google erupted into the open. At issue was a reinforcement-learning AI system that Google uses to do a key step in laying out chunks of logic and memory for its AI accelerator chips, or TPUs. Universities Are Building a Semiconductor Workforce Peter Adams With the U.S.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 30, 2025

A ring modulator has several advantages: It is computationally simple, can be applied in real-time, does not affect the intelligibility of the voice, and--most importantly--is universally robotic sounding because of its historical usage for depicting robots.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2010

The current open prize in this area is the Google Lunar X PRIZE (GLXP). The Google Lunar X PRIZE is a $30 million international competition for the first privately funded team to land a robot on the moon, explore at least 500 meters and beam packages of high-definition video and imagery back to Earth.

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AUGUST 1, 2019

The flight schedules as of July 29 were obtained from Google Flights. Michael Sivak is the managing director of Sivak Applied Research and the former director of Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan. None of these three destinations can currently be reached from Detroit by nonstop flights.

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JANUARY 7, 2016

Google ranks 19 th in the world in this area, followed by Ford at number 20. Carnegie Mellon University and MIT have four and seven unique inventions, respectively. Overall, Asia has 11 of the world’s top 20 autonomous-driving innovators according to the report.

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OCTOBER 23, 2015

Potentially unsafe mental distractions for drivers can persist for as long as 27 seconds after dialing, changing music or sending a text using voice commands, according to a pair of new studies for the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety by University of Utah researchers. Google Now rated highly distracting (3.0,

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APRIL 4, 2023

It pitted established male EDA experts against two young female Google computer scientists, and the underlying argument had already led to the firing of one Google researcher. While still at Google, Chatterjee’s team produced a paper titled “ Stronger Baselines ”, critical of the research published in Nature.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and OpenAI have all recently unveiled experimental models that can use computers the way people dosearching the web for information, filling out forms, and clicking buttons. Next out of the gate was Google DeepMind with its Project Mariner , built on top of Googles Gemini 2 language model.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 18, 2023

The compelling feature of this new breed of quasiparticle, says Pedram Roushan of Google Quantum AI, is the combination of their accessibility to quantum logic operations and their relative invulnerability to thermal and environmental noise. It’s a quantum state of matter that we can now create inside of a quantum computer.”

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Google is testing a self-driving car and has so far clocked up a total of 140,000 miles of driving without human intervention. Nonetheless the search engine firm claims that the car is still very much in an ‘experimental stage’ as it collaborates with Stanford and Carnegie Mellon University to further develop driver-less car technology.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2016

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.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The list includes notable leaders in artificial intelligence such as OpenAI’s Sam Altman and NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang, as well as Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis. When DeepMind was bought out by Google in 2014, Musk became concerned that the tech giant would not take AI safety seriously.

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