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Transportation Research Board - 95th Annual Meeting

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The meeting program will cover all transportation modes, with more than 5,000 presentations in nearly 750 sessions and workshops addressing topics of interest to all attendees—policy makers, administrators, practitioners, researchers, and representatives of government, industry, and academic institutions. A number of sessions and workshops will focus on the spotlight theme for the 2016 TRB Annual Meeting, Research Convergence for a Multi-Modal Future.

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2015 Compute Midwest Tech Conference

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Taking place in Kansas City, the 4th annual, two-day Compute Midwest will bring together 16+ speakers and thousands of attendees including top business leaders, startups, software engineers and investors from all over the world, to explore the trends transforming the future.

A major focus this year will be autonomous car technology.

Last year’s speakers included:

  • Alexis Ohanian (Co-founder, Reddit)
    VIDEO, “Without Their Permission”
  • Jordan Evans (Engineering Manager, NASA Mars Rover Project)
    VIDEO: “The Future Of Mars Exploration“
  • Andrew Hessel (Genomic Futurist, Autodesk)
    VIDEO: “Programming Living Things“
  • Vern Brownell – CEO, D-Wave , Former CTO of Goldman Sachs
    VIDEO: “The Future Of Quantum Computing“
  • Chris Kemp (Founder, Nebula & Fmr CTO, NASA)
  • Dan Levin (COO, Box)
  • Rodney Brooks – Founder of iRobot
  • Rob High – CTO of IBM Watson
  • Jason Hoffman (Founder, Joyent)
  • Dan Kaufman – Director of Innovation Office @ DARPA
  • Brian David Johnson, Futurist @ Intel
  • Ariel Garten, CEO of interaXon
  • Jane Poynter, CEO World View Enterprises
  • John Underkoffler (Founder, Oblong)
  • Scott Chacon (CIO, Github)
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Driverless Stocks Rise for Three Straight Weeks

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For the third straight week, the Driverless Transportation (D20) Stock Index outpaced both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 Index by gaining 1.3 percent and finishing at 156.19. The Dow added 0.8 percent to end the week at 12215.97 while the S&P 500 finished at 2033.11 up 0.9 percent. For the D20 this week gainers outnumbered losers 13 to seven.

D20 Stock Index, Dow Jones, and S&P weekly change ending October 16, 2015

After a one week reprieve, Volkswagen (VLKPY) returned to the losing side, dropping 4.6 percent and ending the week at $23.07. Volkswagen’s credit rating dropped and management shake-ups surfaced as the emissions scandal continues to plague the company.

The price of crude oil has been rising in the last month and a half and that has been a boon to BYD Co. (BYDDY), the Chinese electric vehicle and battery manufacturer. BYD had its sixth consecutive weekly advance and closed Friday up 10.7 percent. Between September 4 and October 16 BYD rose from $7.70 to $12.45 a share, a 62 percent increase. NVIDIA Corp. (NVDA) also rose consistently during that time, ending last week up 6.9 percent to finish at $27.86.

Visit the Driverless Transportation D20 Stock Index page to learn more about it and its component stocks.

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IBM Raises Profile on IoT and Connected Cars

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Big Blue is hitting the accelerator on connected car technology.

IBM is sending its executives to appear at conferences a month after releasing a cloud-based service for automakers that is designed to use the Internet of Things (IoT) so cars can communicate with their owners.

IBM’s IoT for Automotive product will gather data from sensors installed in the vehicle, analyze the information, and let the owner know she needs to change the oil, or communicate with a third-party like a garage or a parking lot, IBM announced.

IBM has been working for several years on connected-vehicle communications systems with German-based auto-technology provider Continental.

Next month, IBM will be presenting at the Connected Fleets USA Conference in Atlanta, discussing the Smart City and its impact on fleets.

Calvin Lawrence, CTO of analytic solutions at IBM, will discuss Smarter Cities for Smarter Infrastructure. In a press release Lawrence says, “(A)s citizens themselves continue to be more socially capable and mobile - their expectation is that the cities in which they live will be fit for purpose. This is especially true for the fleet industry which relies on the efficiency of cities to keep logistics running.”

The connected fleets confab is put on by TU-Automotive and runs Nov. 16-17 in the Grand Hyatt.

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Renesas Launches Autonomous-Driving Platform for Developers

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A fleet of cars using a new comprehensive platform for creating, building and testing autonomous driving technology is now available for viewing and test drives at the Renesas DevCon 2015, the conference organized by Renesas Electronics America.

The autos feature eight LiDAR, five radar, forward smart cameras, a Vehicle to Everything (V2X) box, and other technology that is becoming a core part of autonomous vehicles worldwide.

Renesas’ Autonomous Driving Development Platform includes a fleet of cars that can be operated as a modular and open laboratory for the auto industry. Renesas collaborated on the project with autonomous technology firms Harbrick, NewFoundry, Arada Systems, eTrans Systems, and Cogent Embedded.

Renesas DevCon began yesterday and runs through Thursday at the Hyatt Regency Orange County in Anaheim, Calif.

“Advanced automotive systems for cars are complex to develop and carry a heavy burden of responsibility,” said Amrit Vivekanand, vice president of the automotive business unit at Renesas. “We are building vehicle-level platforms that address customer and partner engineering challenges.”

The platform can be used as a “working sandbox in real-world environments” by “algorithm experts, sensor makers, system integrators, and other subject matter experts” so they can “collaborate, validate, experiment” and benchmark new ideas, Renesas announced.

Vehicles using the new platform integrate such autonomous driving technology as sensor fusion, forward camera image recognition, 3D surround view, and V2X communications. It is powered by Renesas microcontrollers, System on Chips (SoC), and semiconductors.

The platform uses Harbrick’s PolySync system, a development system that uses two Renesas R-Car H2 SOCs. Cogent Embedded provided 3D surround view and forward lane detection systems. Arada and eTrans provided Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) systems that run on two channels of 5.9 GHz dedicated short-range communications (DSRC).

Renesas reported it plans to expand the technology to offer cockpit, safety, security, and powertrain platforms.

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Renesas DevCon 2015

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Renesas DevCon 2015 is an intensive four-day event filled with over 200 hours of lectures and labs, a solutions filled exhibit hall, and free development tools. You’ll also have the opportunity to learn from Renesas’ best and brightest during the one-on-one ‘Ask the Experts’ sessions. Learn how to create a Renesas Synergy project, from concept to working prototype. You’ll be able to configure and use modules from each layer to see how they are integrated, work as a platform and allow application development from the API level.

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Transportation Research Board - 95th Annual Meeting

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The meeting program will cover all transportation modes, with more than 5,000 presentations in nearly 750 sessions and workshops addressing topics of interest to all attendees—policy makers, administrators, practitioners, researchers, and representatives of government, industry, and academic institutions. A number of sessions and workshops will focus on the spotlight theme for the 2016 TRB Annual Meeting, Research Convergence for a Multi-Modal Future.

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2015 Compute Midwest Tech Conference

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Taking place in Kansas City, the 4th annual, two-day Compute Midwest will bring together 16+ speakers and thousands of attendees including top business leaders, startups, software engineers and investors from all over the world, to explore the trends transforming the future.

A major focus this year will be autonomous car technology.

Last year’s speakers included:

  • Alexis Ohanian (Co-founder, Reddit)
    VIDEO, “Without Their Permission”
  • Jordan Evans (Engineering Manager, NASA Mars Rover Project)
    VIDEO: “The Future Of Mars Exploration“
  • Andrew Hessel (Genomic Futurist, Autodesk)
    VIDEO: “Programming Living Things“
  • Vern Brownell – CEO, D-Wave , Former CTO of Goldman Sachs
    VIDEO: “The Future Of Quantum Computing“
  • Chris Kemp (Founder, Nebula & Fmr CTO, NASA)
  • Dan Levin (COO, Box)
  • Rodney Brooks – Founder of iRobot
  • Rob High – CTO of IBM Watson
  • Jason Hoffman (Founder, Joyent)
  • Dan Kaufman – Director of Innovation Office @ DARPA
  • Brian David Johnson, Futurist @ Intel
  • Ariel Garten, CEO of interaXon
  • Jane Poynter, CEO World View Enterprises
  • John Underkoffler (Founder, Oblong)
  • Scott Chacon (CIO, Github)