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IEEE Power & Energy Society President Dies at 69

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Williams was granted 27 U.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California , in Los Angeles. Ferreira's first job, in 1981, was at the Institute of Power Electronics and Electric Drives at Aachen University , in Germany. He was granted 15 patents. patents during his time at IBM.

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IEEE Society Restores Electricity To a Nepali School

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The effect that access to reliable electricity has had on the village is amazing,” says Morgan Kiani , an engineering professor at Texas Christian University , in Fort Worth. Kiani traveled in 2018 to Cairns, Australia, for the IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics.

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Will AI Steal Submarines’ Stealth?

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as early as 2050 , according to a recent study by the National Security College of the Australian National University, in Canberra. In 2018, NASA launched a satellite with laser imaging technology to monitor changes in Earth’s surface—notably changes in the patterns on the ocean’s surface; the satellite cost more than $1 billion.

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How an Electrical Engineer Solved Australia’s Most Famous Cold Case

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That’s how he was on 1 December 1948 , when two men found him slumped against a retaining wall on the beach at Somerton, a suburb of Adelaide, Australia. Several chemical assays failed to identify any poison; granted, the methods of the day were not up to the task. Dead, and in a jacket and tie. Nobody came forward to identify him.

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7 Revealing Ways AIs Fail

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"It's unpredictable which problems artificial intelligence will be good at, because we don't understand intelligence itself very well," says computer scientist Dan Hendrycks at the University of California, Berkeley. Here are seven examples of AI failures and what current weaknesses they reveal about artificial intelligence. 1) Brittleness.

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The Electrome: The Next Great Frontier For Biomedical Technology

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In fact, there was a paper released in 2018 that I didn’t include, which I’m really annoyed by. So this paper that I was talking about, the 2018 paper, they actually looked at neurons. This was work from Denis Jabaudon at the University of Geneva, and they were looking at how neurons actually differentiate. Adee: No, not at all.

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AMPECO CEO discusses the software that makes large-scale EV charging systems work in comprehensive Q&A

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Orlin Radev: Well, our aim is to build a product that can be universally applicable. Since then, we’ve been able to acquire customers all across Europe, but also in Australia, Southeast Asia, the US and Canada, South America. It’s really universally applicable because it is purely software.