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The Engineer Behind Samsung’s Speech Recognition Software

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Every time you use your voice to generate a message on a Samsung Galaxy mobile phone or activate a Google Home device, you’re using tools Chanwoo Kim helped develop. Friends of his who were working on such projects at Google in Mountain View, Calif., Kim saw a role for his expertise in the endeavor—he has a Ph.D.

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Top Programming Languages Methodology

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In aggregating metrics, we hope to compensate for statistical quirks that might distort a language’s popularity score in any particular source of data. In aggregating across each data source, we hope to compensate for statistical quirks that might distort a language’s popularity score in any particular source of data.

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MINI Connected app relaunches with greater focus on driving-related functions

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The app makes use of personal driving data together with the user’s own past journeys and shows information such as journey duration and fuel consumption. If several drives to the same destination have already been recorded, MINI Streetwise will calculate the user’s personal best route as the recommended option. MINI Streetwise.

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Tesla for a vaccine: Doctor offers the ultimate COVID-19 vaccination incentive

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So far, Dr. Vazquez has administered over 7,000 vaccines personally. ” According to Our World in Data , a site that provides COVID-19 vaccination statistics to Google, over 247 million doses of the vaccine have been given in the United States, so far. of the population is fully vaccinated.

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IEEE Honors Pioneering Engineers

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IEEE MILDRED DRESSELHAUS MEDAL Sponsor: Google ANANTHA CHANDRAKASAN MIT “For contributions to ultralow-power circuits and systems, and for leadership in academia and advancing diversity in the profession.” Kumar Texas A&M University College Station “For seminal contributions to the modeling, analysis, and design of wireless networks.”

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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. for “Automated Music Personality,” or AMPbot for short. 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 We Judge The Top Programming Languages

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By combining metrics to synthesize a single ranking we hope to even out statistical fluctuations, and by changing the weights given to different metrics as they are combined lets us to emphasis different aspects, such as what's popular with employers in our Jobs ranking. We hope to attack this problem in next year's rankings.

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