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Thomson Reuters report finds established auto industry companies, not Silicon Valley, leading development of autonomous driving tech

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Established automotive industry companies—not Silicon Valley—are leading the development of autonomous driving technology, according to a new report from the Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters. Google ranks 19 th in the world in this area, followed by Ford at number 20.

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WiTricity extends recent funding for a total of $52M

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The extension included investments from Tony Fadell’s Future Shape and other private investors. The company envisions a not-too-distant future when dynamic charging will support moving vehicles (from taxi queues to roadways), and autonomous vehicles and robots will charge without human intervention. Marin Solja?i?,

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Toyota Research Institute CEO Pratt outlines initial AI/robotics mandates; trillion-mile reliability

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The investment is in addition to the $50 million investment over the next five years with MIT and Stanford, each close by TRI’s new offices, to establish joint fundamental artificial intelligence research centers at each university.) While our company was making fabric looms, automobiles were defining the future. Earlier post.) (The

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Video Friday: Robot Soccer Finals

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What skills from the animal world can be used for industrial applications? Paper ] Wyss Associate Faculty members, Conor Walsh and Rob Wood discuss their visions for the future of bio-inspired soft robotics. Paper ] MIT CSAIL grad students speak about what they think is the most important unsolved problem in computer science today. [

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100 Years Ago, IBM Was Born

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From the 19th century, through the 20th, and into the 21st, IBM was there, making HP, Microsoft, and Apple appear more like children or grandchildren of the IT world; Facebook, Google, and Twitter/X more like great-grandchildren. As a preamble to that future, he decided that the company’s image and reputation required some burnishing.

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2021's Top Stories About AI

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But we all know that deep learning can do wondrous things and that it's being rapidly incorporated into many industries; that's yesterday's news. Which is not to say that IEEE Spectrum didn't cover AI—we covered the heck out of it. Several came from Spectrum 's October 2021 special issue on AI, The Great AI Reckoning.

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The Essential Vannevar Bush

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Born in 1890 in Massachusetts, he came to prominence as the nation’s top designer of computers while at MIT In the 1930s. Bush was a fount of wisdom, particularly when it came to defining the engineer's role in the industrial research and development enterprise. In our modern tempo that industry is in danger which is in a static state.

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