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5 Ways to Strengthen the AI Acquisition Process

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In our last article, A How-To Guide on Acquiring AI Systems , we explained why the IEEE P3119 Standard for the Procurement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Automated Decision Systems (ADS) is needed.

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Top Programming Languages Methodology

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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. Trinity College Dublin Library The library of Trinity College Dublin is one of six legal deposit libraries in Ireland and the United Kingdom.

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Europe Mandates Automatic Emergency Braking

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Deferring to the guy behind the wheel checks a lot of boxes—human pride, legal niggling, and the engineer’s fear of false positives. Every year we do a report on mortality rates; the safest are still Sweden, the Netherlands—and I was going to say the United Kingdom, but my country has left the EU.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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But Tan reasoned that “if the company just manufactured the player, it would not make a lot of money,” according to a 2005 article in the Straits Times. An appeals court in the United Kingdom, however, was not persuaded, and Trek lost its patent there in 2008.

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Who Really Invented the Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery?

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Goodenough wrote to battery companies in the United States, United Kingdom, and the European mainland in hopes of finding a corporate partner, he recalled in his 2008 memoir, Witness to Grace. This article appears in the August 2023 print issue as “The Lithium-ion Battery’s Long and Winding Road.” But he found no takers.

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The Long Road to Today’s Cochlear Implant

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As Albert Mudry and Mara Mills documented in their 2013 retrospective article “ The Early History of the Cochlear Implant ,” electrical stimulation of the ear dates to at least 1748, when Benjamin Wilson stimulated the scalp of a deaf woman with electricity. In Australia, Graeme Clark read Simmons’s report while working on his Ph.D.

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Why Cyberwarfare Is Overhyped

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My primary appointment is at the law school where I teach legal philosophy. So it was from 1600 to 2014, about whether you’re allowed legally to go to war. And how does it relate to legal and ethical questions we have? Schneider: Before we talk about your book, tell me a little bit about yourself. What about cyber war?”

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