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MIT engineers develop system to help autonomous vehicles see around corners; adapting ShadowCam

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In a paper being presented at next week’s International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), the researchers describe successful experiments with an autonomous car driving around a parking garage and an autonomous wheelchair navigating hallways. But modifying real-world environments with AprilTags is not practical.

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The Engineer Behind Samsung’s Speech Recognition Software

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Kim, who grew up in South Korea, missed his family, and in 2018 he moved back, joining Samsung as vice president of its AI Center in Seoul. He is the youngest person to be an executive vice president at the company. He is a regular attendee at the annual IEEE Conference for Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing.

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Get to Know the IEEE Board of Directors

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She is also a member of the IEEE Conferences Committee. Having authored more than 300 peer-reviewed scientific publications, De Floriani served as editor in chief of the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics from 2015 to 2018. She has a track record of projects that embrace innovation and community leadership.

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Leading the Way for More LGBTQ Inclusivity in STEM

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Arti Agrawal , who is gay, didn’t have access to LGBTQ+ support groups when growing up in India, where homosexuality was a crime until 2018. In 2011 she took a position at the university as a lecturer and started her own LGBTQ+ network there so she could help create a better environment. It just changes their rank.”. “If

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IEEE’s Honor Society Gave This Boston University Student Tools to Succeed

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“When our chapter was struggling during the COVID-19 pandemic, I held virtual town hall meetings and game nights, where students could congregate, talk about their concerns in an open environment, have some fun, and forget about their worries for a brief moment,” he says. “By

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The 11 Commandments of Hugging Robots

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Unfortunately, physical contact with humans is something that robots find especially difficult and occasionally dangerous, so that we cannot (yet) safely use them as a proxy for nuanced physical contact with another person. In 2018, we wrote about research by Alexis E. Block and Katherine J. Hugging HuggieBot 3.0

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Your Robotic Avatar Is Almost Ready

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Under some fairly specific constraints, autonomous robots are starting to find a few valuable niches in semistructured environments, like offices and hospitals and warehouses. It’s still an achievement for autonomous robots to merely survive in the real world, which is a long way from any kind of useful generalized autonomy.