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The Engineer Behind Samsung’s Speech Recognition Software

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encouraged him to apply for a software engineering job there. He left Microsoft in Seattle where he had worked for three years as a software development engineer and speech scientist. That same year, Kim moved up to senior software engineer and continued improving the algorithms used by Google Home for large-scale data augmentation.

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California ARB study finds commuters’ exposures to air pollution greatly depends on mode of travel; light rail, personal vehicles the lowest

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The researchers found that electricity-powered light rail trains offer the least polluted travel environment followed by personal vehicles, while commute trips by older technology diesel-powered trains experienced the highest average air pollution levels in Sacramento. Click to enlarge. —CARB Research Division Chief Bart Croes.

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IEEE Honors Pioneering Engineers

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ALAN BOVIK The University of Texas at Austin "For pioneering high-impact scientific and engineering contributions leading to the perceptually optimized global streaming and sharing of visual media.” IEEE MEDAL FOR INNOVATIONS IN HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGY Sponsor: IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society JAMES G. IEEE RICHARD W.

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Waterloo team uses on-board data to identify speed as the best predictor of car crashes

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Their analysis revealed speeding is a strong predictor of crashes, while statistically significant links for the other kinds of aggressive driving couldn’t be established. —Stefan Steiner, a statistics professor in Waterloo’s Faculty of Mathematics.

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Top Programming Languages Methodology

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We look at three different aspects of popularity: languages in active use among typical IEEE members and working software engineers (the “Spectrum” ranking), languages that are in demand by employers (the “Jobs” ranking), and languages that are in the zeitgeist (the “Trending” ranking). Our statistical methodology advisor is Hilary Wething.

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For ZEV adoption, Canada is a rustic of contrasts

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There’s a 1,500-person ready record for the unused electrical 2024 Chevrolet Equinox crossover, slated to travel into manufacturing later pace, he stated. consistent with cent of all Canadian cars registered, consistent with knowledge from Statistics Canada revealed Aug. consistent with cent of car registrations.

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Tesla’s Autopilot was not engaged in a crash with a train; driver unharmed

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.” Lieutenant Wilkie also added that the Amtrak train engineer stopped at the scene and that none of the train’s passengers suffered any injuries. Last year’s statistics are the highest since 2007. Nonfatal injuries increased 4% from 2020 with a total of 5,781.

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