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Study shows recent increase in US households without a vehicle

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A new report by Dr. Michael Sivak at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) shows a recent increase in the proportion of US households without a vehicle. Sivak performed two analyses on data from the American Community Survey. In six of the 30 cities, more than 30% of households do not have a vehicle.

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Ford to begin autonomous vehicle testing on California roads; Silicon Valley Lab accelerates Smart Mobility Plan

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Ford expanded its Silicon Valley facility from a 15-person office to a 100-plus-person research and development center. Ford has cultivated relationships with top universities this year, including University of California-Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University, Santa Clara and San Jose State.

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Why These Members Donate to the IEEE Foundation

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While he was an engineering professor at the University of California, Los Angeles , Samueli helped found company in San Jose, Calif., The IEEE Fellow received the 2021 IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award “for pioneering the design of consumer-friendly personal computers.” in 1991 with one of his Ph.D.

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Princeton Engineering Dean Hailed as IEEE Top Educator

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So it’s surprising to learn that she almost dropped out in her first year of the engineering program at the University of California, Berkeley. “By Strouse is now a math professor at the Institut de Matheématique at the University of Bordeaux, in France. My heart is so much in the university; I can’t imagine ever leaving academia.”

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Improving Cell Reception By Making Signals Noisier

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Artemis’ technology, which they call pCells (short for “personal cells”), relies on radio waves' additive nature. Artemis Networks pWave antennas—here shown mounted at the SAP Center arena in San Jose, California—send out carefully-crafted noise that resolves into coherent signals at a user's phone or other device.

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Princeton Engineering Dean Hailed as IEEE Top Educator

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So it’s surprising to learn that she almost dropped out in her first year of the engineering program at the University of California, Berkeley. “By Strouse is now a math professor at the Institut de Matheématique at the University of Bordeaux, in France. My heart is so much in the university; I can’t imagine ever leaving academia.”

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Safer and Self-Driving Cars Now on Roads

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This article was written more than 10 years ago, when the forecasts were we would have personal and public robotaxis galore. DOT, NHTSA and the University of Michigan. Google, in partnership with Stanford University, has successfully had self-driving vehicles on the road since 2009. A steering wheel only because they had to.

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