"I accepted the kind invitation to enter the House of Lords as a working peer for practical political reasons, " he said when his peerage was first announced.

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Qualcomm, who is working on a peer-to-peer app development framework called AllJoyn.

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Rice says it would be most beneficial to have a "360 degree network" of high performers, meaning surrounding oneself with successful people who are more senior than you, at your peer level and working beneath you.

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In addition, in May 2002, I founded the Distributed Computing Industry Association (DCIA) www.dcia.info , a nonprofit organization working toward a viable framework for the Internet peer-to-peer community agreeable to copyright owners, consumers and consumer electronic industries.

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Getaround is also working with the Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium to research peer-to-peer car-sharing with the aim of a wider nationwide roll-out.

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The peer said he knew of no complaints against him in his 27 years working for the party, but he has temporarily stood aside from the Lib Dems' group in the Lords to avoid "embarrassment" to the party.

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The peer said he knew of no complaints against him in his 27 years working for the party but he has temporarily stood aside from the Lib Dem group in the Lords to avoid "embarrassment" to the party.

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Moreover, working with other start-ups in close quarters pushed PlanGrid to keep up thanks to peer pressure and their internal drive.

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Their view is that working papers are for review by your peers, and only once you have published in a peer-reviewed academic journal should you circulate for a wider public, having gained the endorsement of the profession.

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