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The Engineer Behind Samsung’s Speech Recognition Software

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After joining Google’s acoustic modeling team in 2013, he worked to ensure the company’s AI assistive technology, used in Google Home products, could perform in the presence of background noise. He is the youngest person to be an executive vice president at the company. encouraged him to apply for a software engineering job there.

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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In 2001 she realized her goal of working on a satellite mission. They reinforced the perception that Dresselhaus was a truly amazing person as well as a trailblazer.” Then there is growth in terms of understanding the importance of going to conferences and not only hearing presentations of research but also engaging with people.

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Speech Processing Pioneer Sadaoki Furui Dies at 77

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He left Tokyo in 2013 to become president of the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago and served in that position until 2019. Twenty-six editions of his book Digital Speech Processing, Synthesis, and Recognition were published between 1985 and 2001. He won a 2012 Broadcast Cultural Award from NHK , the Japan Broadcasting Corp.,

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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The 15 th Congress, also known as the 15 th Conference of Parties, or COP 15, was initially intended to be a largely procedural summit, with many major negotiating points settled and most environmental ministers prepared to sign a binding emissions treaty that contained specific emissions targets as well as commitments to financing structures.

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Tesla says Model S comes out on top in US-NCAP crash testing with lowest Vehicle Safety Score

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In this case, lower is better: VSS is essentially a weighted average risk of personal injury resulting from the different NCAP crash tests. Side crash rating results were added with 1997 model year vehicles and rollover assessments with 2001 models. Source: Tesla Motors. Click to enlarge. Electric (Battery) Safety'

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