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MIT autonomous boats can target and latch onto each other: dynamic roboat structures

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To further that vision, MIT researchers have given new capabilities to their fleet of robotic boats—which are being developed as part of an ongoing project—that lets them target and clasp onto each other, and keep trying if they fail. Moreover, the roboat notices if it has missed the connection, backs up, and tries again.

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MIT, QCRI use AI to enrich digital maps to improve GPS navigation; RoadTagger

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A model developed by Researchers at MIT and Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) have developed a model that uses satellite imagery to tag road features in digital maps to help improve GPS navigation. Each tile is a separate graph node, connected by lines along the road. The CNN takes as input raw satellite images of target roads.

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Inventor of AT&T’s Datakit, the First Virtual Connection Switch, Dies at 85

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He began his career at Ferranti , an electrical engineering and equipment company in Manchester, England. AT&T named him chief scientist, and in that position he worked on developing architecture and protocols for a large-scale Internet so that customers could connect to it from their homes. where he continued his networking work.

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Two Oddball Ideas for a Megaqubit Quantum Computer

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But connecting them all by coaxial cable to control and readout electronics, which work at room temperature, would be impossible. And in February at the IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) a separate research group proposed technology that could use terahertz radio to eliminate communication cables altogether.

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How MIT’s Muriel Medard Pioneered the Universal Decoder

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The MIT electrical engineering and computer science professor’s positive thinking has led to new ways to improve tried-and-true techniques in the field of information theory. She liked working on creative projects and mathematics, so she decided to study math and literature at MIT. She holds more than 50 U.S.

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Clever Compression of Some Neural Nets Improves Performance

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As neural networks grow larger, they become more powerful, but also more power-hungry, gobbling electricity, time, and computer memory. For each snippet of sound, it would guess the word or words, and update its connections based on whether it’s right or wrong. He’s submitted a paper on the topic to next year’s ICASSP conference.) “A

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MIT’s Copenhagen Bike Wheel

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Researchers at MIT have developed a new bicycle rear wheel—the Copenhagen Wheel —that can capture energy from braking and deliver the power back to provide a boost. A close-up of the Copenhagen Wheel, from MIT’s SENSEable City Lab. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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