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Boeing and Kitty Hawk form strategic partnership on electric urban air mobility

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The company’s portfolio of vehicles includes Cora, a two-person air taxi and Flyer, a vehicle for personalized flight. Sebastian Thrun, Kitty Hawk’s CEO, was the founder of X (previously Google X), where he led the development of the self-driving car, Google Glass, and other projects.

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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. He recently left Samsung to continue his work in the field at Korea University , in Seoul, leading the school’s speech and language processing laboratory.

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Connect with Engineers Worldwide Through the IEEE App

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All the app’s personalized features require permission from users to share their information. The app provides the name of the event, its duration, and location, as well as whether the meeting is in person, virtual, or a combination of in person and online. You can download the IEEE app from Apple’s App Store or Google Play.

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Ending an Ugly Chapter in Chip Design

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It pitted established male EDA experts against two young female Google computer scientists, and the underlying argument had already led to the firing of one Google researcher. According to press reports , its leader Satarjit Chatterjee, repeatedly undermined Mirhoseini and Goldie personally and was fired for it in 2022.

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When AI Unplugs, All Bets Are Off

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Personalized, private AI so seamless you might forget it’s “AI” at all. Meanwhile, Google has scrambled to deliver its own chatbot, Bard, which launched in March; Amazon announced a $4 billion investment in Anthropic , creator of ChatGPT competitor Claude, in September. Because when you look at it, what is driving AI?

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Peer-to-peer car sharing marketplace RelayRides acquires Wheelz

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DriveBox allows renters to reserve, find, and unlock a car in minutes all from a smartphone, without having to meet with the owner in person. Wheelz first introduced its service on college and university campuses throughout California before expanding to the urban centers of San Francisco and Los Angeles.

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IEEE Honors Pioneering Engineers

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MADNI University of California, Los Angeles “For pioneering contributions to the development and commercialization of innovative sensing and systems technologies, and for distinguished research leadership.” Kumar Texas A&M University College Station “For seminal contributions to the modeling, analysis, and design of wireless networks.”

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