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MIT engineers develop system to help autonomous vehicles see around corners; adapting ShadowCam

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To improve the safety of autonomous systems, MIT engineers have developed a system that can sense tiny changes in shadows on the ground to determine if there’s a moving object coming around the corner. ShadowCam used the tags as features of the environment to zero in on specific patches of pixels that may contain shadows.

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Daimler joining MIT CSAIL Alliance Program for AI work; cognitive vehicles

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Daimler is becoming a new member of the MIT CSAIL Alliance Program. MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ( CSAIL ) is the largest research laboratory at MIT and one of the world’s most important centers of information technology research. The new cooperation with the MIT ideally complements this.

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Toyota’s Collaborative Safety Research Center launches 5-year, $35M program on autonomous and connected vehicle technologies

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Another, with MIT, modelled in-vehicle voice command systems and driver behavior. CSRC will be participating at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) 25 th International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles (ESV) in Detroit, 5-8 June 2017. CSRC 2017 Report.

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This Robot Could Be the Key to Helping People With Disabilities

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It was a PR2 , from the robotics company Willow Garage, and Georgia Tech robotics professor Charlie Kemp was demonstrating how the PR2 was able to locate a person and bring them a bottle of medicine. I imagined using it as a way to once again manipulate my physical environment after years of just lying in bed.”

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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“People were really interested in clean air and clean water, so I decided there would always be interest in the environment,” Crawford says. You study many areas in civil engineering, including structures, soils, transportation, and the environment,” she says. She died in 2017. They were former students, colleagues, and friends.

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Virtual Reality Helps Students Improve Their Math Literacy

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VR headsets allow students to immerse themselves in realistic digital environments to learn math and science by solving real-world problems, such as calculating how high a house’s foundation should be raised to offset the risk of flooding. She left in 2017 and joined Success Academy as dean of mathematics.

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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

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As a child, Zadeh was surrounded by governesses and tutors, while as a young adult, he had a personal servant. That enabled him to be financially independent when he came to the United States to enroll in graduate school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge. Army Persian Gulf Command. Kalman in 1972.