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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., He left for Pittsburgh in 2005 to pursue a Ph.D.

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IEEE Medal of Honor Goes to Vint Cerf

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Since 2005, Cerf has been vice president and chief Internet evangelist at Google in Reston, Va., He returned to MCI in 1994 and served as a senior vice president for 11 years before joining Google. “It Together with Kahn, he was awarded a 2013 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering , a 2005 U.S.

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Volkswagen Group top global R&D spender in 2014; 3rd year in a row

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Screenshot from an interactive table showing top 20 R&D Spenders 2005-2014. Apple led that list, followed by Google, Amazon and Samsung. R&D spending as a percentage of revenue fell by 17% between 2005 and 2014. Click to enlarge. last year—a more modest increase than the 3.8%

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Google’s technology campaign for autonomous driving

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Search engine giant Google is looking for partners within in the auto industry to help launch one of the most significant applications of artificial technology over the next several years, the self-driving car. Google believes that a future state with having computers drive cars can “ remove a gigantic chunk ” of the US fatalities.

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Volkswagen Group in strategic collaboration with self-driving technology startup Aurora Innovation; Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) fleets

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The Volkswagen Group and self-driving technology startup Aurora Innovation, founded by technology veterans from Google, Tesla and Uber, announced a strategic collaboration ahead of the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Our vision is ‘Mobility for all, at the push of a button’.

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Audi names vehicle networking strategy Audi connect; expanding functions in summer 2011

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With Audi connect, the company is building on the foundation of a collaboration with Google that began in 2005. These connections make a wide array of useful applications possible, such as the unrestricted integration of Google Earth into the navigation system’s map display.

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Meet Mr. Internet: Vint Cerf

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“The networks couldn’t be changed and couldn’t know that they were part of the Internet, because they already existed,” Cerf recalls recently in an interview at his office at Google, in Reston, Va. Once the dust had settled, Cerf sent an email to his old friend Eric Schmidt, who had been hired as CEO of Google in 2001. “Hi

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