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IES Announces Call for Presenters
The Illuminating Engineering Society has announced a call for presenters for its 2018 annual conference to be held August 9-11, 2018, at the Westin Boston Waterfront in Boston, MA. The…
Zachary Pearson Earns IESNYC Scholarship
The New York City Section of the Illuminating Engineering Society (IESNYC) recently announced that Zachary Pearson, a candidate in the Master of Science in Lighting program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute…
Product Monday: Extreme Density LED by Cree
Cree, Inc.’s ceramic-based XLamp® XD16 Extreme Density LED is designed to deliver up to 5½ times higher lumen density than the company’s previous generation of high-power LEDs. Built on Cree’s…
CFL and LED Use Growing in Homes
Below is another contribution I made to the February issue of tED Magazine. Reprinted with permission. The Department of Energy’s (DOE) latest Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) revealed a majority…
Light Stored as Sound for First Time
Researchers at the University of Sydney have successfully transferred data carried on light waves into sound waves in a microchip. Why is this important? Shifting from optical to acoustical and…