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IEEE’s Honor Society Expands to More Countries

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IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu There’s also the HKN Career Conversations podcast , hosted by society alumni. Mentorship and networking opportunities IEEE-HKN’s mentoring program connects recent graduates with alumni. IEEE professionals are paired with graduate students based on technical interest, desired mentoring area, and personality.

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Weaponized Robots Letter Calls for Policy, Tech Fixes

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Yesterday, six companies that build or support sophisticated mobile robots (led by Boston Dynamics). Along with Agility Robotics, ANYbotics, Clearpath Robotics, Open Robotics, and Unitree, Boston Dynamics’ letter seeks to ensure that its robots are used safely and ethically, in a way that helps rather than harms.

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E Paper License Plates Now Street-Legal in California

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2022 : The “Kindle” of license plates— Reviver ’s connected, digital RPlate —is now legal for use by any California car-owner, following a 10,000-car pilot that started in 2018. Boston said three more U.S. states will introduce the gadgets this year, and his company is “in conversation” with 10 more. Update 14 Oct.

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The Meeting of the Minds That Launched AI

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So who was this unknown person? The identity of the person between Solomonoff and Shannon remained a mystery for some time. The Minsky Family Between Solomonoff and Shannon is the unknown person. He assured me that the unknown person was not his father. Grace Solomonoff So the unknown person must be Milner!

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Will Scaling Solve Robotics?

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This post was originally published on the author’s personal blog. Almost all the content is taken directly from talks I attended or conversations I had with fellow attendees. CV and NLP got so much data because they had an incredible “data flywheel”: tens of millions of people connecting to and using the Internet.

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Apps Put a Psychiatrist in Your Pocket

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Compared to a healthy user [top], a person experiencing symptoms of bipolar disorder [middle] or depression [bottom] may use their phone more than usual and late at night. Calls and texts: The frequency of text messages and phone conversations signifies a person’s social isolation or activity, which indicates a certain mood.

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The Do-or-Die Moments That Determined the Fate of the Internet

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And by mid-1971, program director Lawrence Roberts of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) was becoming impatient with the slow pace at which ARPA-funded researchers were getting connected. In 1981, GM held exploratory conversations with Digital Equipment Corp. Users in large organizations—including the U.S.

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