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ARPA-E to award up to $10M to study cold fusion (LENR)

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DOE reviews in 1989 and 2004 both concluded that the evidence did not support the claim of D-D fusion, but that research proposals on deuterated heavy metals should be evaluated under the standard peer-review process. Google, DARPA, NASA), that has advanced LENR-relevant state-of-the-art capabilities and methodologies.

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Pioneer of Google’s Data Centers Dies at 58

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Luiz André Barroso Data center pioneer Senior member, 59; died 16 September An engineer at Google for more than 20 years, Barroso is credited with designing the company’s warehouse-size data centers. He left Compaq in 2001 to join Google in Mountain View, Calif., As Google’s business expanded, its need for infrastructure increased.

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IEEE Medal of Honor Goes to Vint Cerf

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Since 2005, Cerf has been vice president and chief Internet evangelist at Google in Reston, Va., He returned to MCI in 1994 and served as a senior vice president for 11 years before joining Google. “It Cerf has received several recognitions for his work, including the 2004 Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery.

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Google’s technology campaign for autonomous driving

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Search engine giant Google is looking for partners within in the auto industry to help launch one of the most significant applications of artificial technology over the next several years, the self-driving car. Google believes that a future state with having computers drive cars can “ remove a gigantic chunk ” of the US fatalities.

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X PRIZE Foundation Aims to Launch $100M in Prizes Over Next 10 Years, Targeting 4 Key Areas

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The current open prize in this area is the Google Lunar X PRIZE (GLXP). The Google Lunar X PRIZE is a $30 million international competition for the first privately funded team to land a robot on the moon, explore at least 500 meters and beam packages of high-definition video and imagery back to Earth.

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MIT Professor’s IoT Sensors Make Roads Safer

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This was before iPhones , Androids , and Google Maps.” Between 1999 and 2004, he oversaw the development of the Cricket indoor location system. They later founded CMT, with Madden serving as its chief scientist. CarTel was one of the first projects in mobile sensing,” Balakrishnan says. “We We showed that it could work at scale.

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Sony invests in Cogitai; collaborating on R&D for next wave of artificial intelligence

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In fact, the power of deep reinforcement learning was demonstrated by the recent success of AlphaGo, an AI Go playing system from Google DeepMind. In parallel, Sony established Sony Intelligence Dynamics Laboratory in 2004, which studied autonomous development of intelligence called Intelligence Dynamics.

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