Instead, you hear a dozen tangents of real leadership like energizing, visioning, pathfinding, and modeling.

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More Sims will go to work, police cars will split their patrol routes, and gridlock will be less of an issue as pathfinding is improved.

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Its pathfinding research into materials, propulsion, computational, avionics and fuel technologies among others are essential to the future excellence of American industry in a variety of fields.

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The "Mona Lisa" experiment was transmitted at a slow data rate of about 300 bits per second, but the "pathfinding achievement sets the stage for ... high data rate laser-communication demonstrations that will be a central feature of NASA's next moon mission, the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer, " said Goddard's Richard Vondrak, the orbiter's deputy project scientist.

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