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AI Doesn’t Have to Be This Way

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If you want to write an article for IEEE Spectrum , you could either go and have ChatGPT write that article for you, or you could use it to curate a reading list for you that might capture things you didn’t know yourself that are relevant to the topic. Generative AI could be used, not for replacing humans, but to be helpful for humans.

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Students Develop Low-Cost Wearable Device for the Visually Impaired

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The technology used in the device includes optical character recognition, machine learning, and Google application programming interfaces. EPICS in IEEE The ability to read under any condition and navigate surroundings OurVision can read text out loud from books and periodicals as well as billboards, posters, and traffic signs.

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Top Programming Languages Methodology

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Google Google is the leading search engine in the world, making it an ideal fit for estimating language popularity. IEEE Xplore Digital Library IEEE maintains a digital library with millions of conference and journal articles covering a wide array of scientific and engineering disciplines. Rankings are computed using R.

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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 a software engineer.

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Paying Tribute to Computer Science Pioneer Frederick Brooks, Jr.

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He wrote The Mythical Man-Month , a book of essays published in 1975 that detailed lessons he learned from challenges he faced while developing the OS/360. Software and peripherals from old systems would not work with new ones, making it costly for customers to upgrade their hardware, according to an IBM article about the technology.

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100 Years Ago, IBM Was Born

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From the 19th century, through the 20th, and into the 21st, IBM was there, making HP, Microsoft, and Apple appear more like children or grandchildren of the IT world; Facebook, Google, and Twitter/X more like great-grandchildren. So let’s take a moment to contemplate the origins of an iconic corporation. And so it did.

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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

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He was therefore perfectly positioned to be the author of the definitive corporate history of the company he used to work for, in a book entitled IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon , which was published in 2019 by MIT Press. If we were to list them ourselves, it would surely include Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple.

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