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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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IEEE Honors Iconic Engineers

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CERF Google, LLC Reston, Va. DEBOY Infineon Technologies Austria AG Villach, Austria TATSUHIKO FUJIHIRA Fuji Electric Matsumoto, Japan “For contributions to the concept and realization of superjunction power devices that significantly improve power efficiency.” Meet the recipients of the 2023 IEEE Medals and Recognitions. IEEE JACK S.

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ChatGPT's Hallucinations Could Keep It from Succeeding

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Yes, large language models (LLMs) hallucinate , a concept popularized by Google AI researchers in 2018. Those systems generate text that sounds fine, grammatically, semantically, but they don’t really have some sort of objective other than just satisfying statistical consistency with the prompt.”

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First drive: US spec Audi A3 Sportback e-tron plug-in hybrid; 83-86 MPGe with 16-17 mile EV range

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The hybrid concept of the A3 Sportback e-tron often does not activate the combustion engine until kickdown, even when cold. Screen shot from the MMI showing some of the available e-tron statistics: 58% of this segment of the drive was completed in electric mode. Click to enlarge. Driver Assistance.

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From Home Brew to Hasbro

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The answer lies in an algorithm from statistics and control called a Kalman filter. We were able to get a one-off project to build some little balancing Android Robots for Google, and tour them around to events like Google IO, Google Sandbox, and Google Zeitgeist in London.

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How an Electrical Engineer Solved Australia’s Most Famous Cold Case

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But statistical tests carried out by my team showed that it was more likely a string of the initial letters of words. An Engineering Approach Paid Off What’s interesting about solving such a case is how it relies on concepts that may seem counterintuitive to forensic biologists but are quite straightforward to an electronics engineer.

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IEEE Celebrates Engineering Brilliance

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VAIDYANATHAN Caltech “For contributions to theory and practice of statistical, graph, and distributed signal processing.” IEEE MILDRED DRESSELHAUS MEDAL Sponsor: Google CLAIRE J. For leadership and innovative concepts in the design, deployment, and utilization of airborne and space-based radar systems.” IEEE JACK S.

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