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OSU study finds varied impact of pandemic on public transit use across US

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A study by researchers at The Ohio State University suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic had varying effects on demand for public transit in US cities. Fitted curve and key parameters for an example public transit agency (Capital Metro in Austin, Texas). —Liu et al. The open-access study is published in the journal PLOS ONE.

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IEEE Honors Iconic Engineers

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CERF Google, LLC Reston, Va. ALLEN MEDAL Sponsor: IBM LYDIA KAVRAKI Rice University Houston “For foundational probabilistic algorithms and randomized search methods that have broad impact in robotic motion planning and computational biology.” IEEE MEDAL OF HONOR Sponsor: IEEE Foundation VINTON G. IEEE FRANCES E.

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IEEE Honors Pioneering Engineers

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MADNI University of California, Los Angeles “For pioneering contributions to the development and commercialization of innovative sensing and systems technologies, and for distinguished research leadership.” Kumar Texas A&M University College Station “For seminal contributions to the modeling, analysis, and design of wireless networks.”

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Video Friday: Ingenuity’s 50th Flight

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As at the previous events, teams from Carnegie Mellon University, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the University of Washington participated. Google AI ] Sanctuary AI is on a mission to create the world’s first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots that will help us work more safely, efficiently, and sustainably.

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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Business Landscape

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From effective spam filtering to the efficiency of services like Uber, AI’s impact is evident, with ongoing battles in data mining unfolding between industry giants like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. The efficacy of AI algorithms extends far beyond traditional benchmarks, extending beyond merely beating humans in games.

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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CRAWFORD EMPLOYER Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. TITLE ‘Professor of civil engineering, agronomy, and electrical and computer engineering MEMBER GRADE Fellow ALMA MATERS University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Ohio State University, Columbus But her engineering path eventually led her back to agriculture.

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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. The combination of reinforcement learning and deep learning - called deep reinforcement learning—is considered to be the breakthrough to overcome these limitations.

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