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Ending an Ugly Chapter in Chip Design

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It pitted established male EDA experts against two young female Google computer scientists, and the underlying argument had already led to the firing of one Google researcher. In Circuit Training and Morpheus, a separate algorithm fills in the gaps with the smaller parts, called standard cells. Kahng was reviewer #3.)

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AI Poised to Transform Video Compression Landscape

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While a new codec standard has appeared around every 10 years, all have been based on pixel mathematics—manipulating the values of individual pixels in a video frame to remove information that is not essential for human perception. These algorithms paved the way for the current dominance of video in the digital age.

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Drones That Can Fly Better Than You Can

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Foundation for Skydio’s drones can be traced back to Adam’s work on autonomous agile drones at MIT , and after spending a few years at Google working on Project Wing’s delivery drones , Adam cofounded Skydio in 2014. Davide Scaramuzza directs the Robotics and Perception group at the University of Zürich.

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

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Coast Guard To verify the caller’s identity and solve the apparent crime, the Coast Guard’s investigative service emailed the files to Rita Singh , a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University and author of the textbook Profiling Humans From Their Voice (Springer, 2019). Forensic speaker comparison is primarily investigative.

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Why Bloat Is Still Software’s Biggest Vulnerability

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Some years ago I did a talk at a local university on cybersecurity, titled “ Cyber and Information Security: Have We All Gone Mad? ” Even companies with near-infinite resources (like Apple and Google) made trivial “worst practice” security mistakes that put their customers in danger. The state of software security is dire.

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The Global Project to Make a General Robotic Brain

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In 2023, our labs at Google and the University of California, Berkeley came together with 32 other robotics laboratories in North America, Europe, and Asia to undertake the RT-X project , with the goal of assembling data, resources, and code to make general-purpose robots a reality. We decided to give it a try.

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As Electric Car Makers Ante Up Billions, Software Is Ace in the Hole

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As a comparison , in 2011, there were only two battery electric and 29 hybrid electric vehicle models offered for sale in the US. Krovi , Michelin Endowed Chair of Vehicle Automation in the Departments of Automotive Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at Clemson University, "which has led to the unraveling of the original vehicle form."