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The Engineer Behind Samsung’s Speech Recognition Software

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encouraged him to apply for a software engineering job there. He left Microsoft in Seattle where he had worked for three years as a software development engineer and speech scientist. That same year, Kim moved up to senior software engineer and continued improving the algorithms used by Google Home for large-scale data augmentation.

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This Engineer Is Helping to Make India a Global Semiconductor Hub

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Sharma, a semiconductor engineer, was instrumental in organizing the meeting for the Tokyo-based company. Building a thriving semiconductor industry At the meeting with Modi, Sharma presented the prime minister with a cutting-edge 5G millimeter-wave and sub-6-gigahertz chipset designed by Renesas’s R&D teams in Bengaluru and San Diego.

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Hyundai Motor Group appoints Bell Textron exec as Vice President of Urban Air Mobility Division

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Earlier this year at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the Hyundai Motor Company presented its vision to offer an integrated mobility solution, including UAM, Purpose Built Vehicles (PBV) and Hub, that will help vitalize cities and improve people’s lives. Hyundai’s air vehicle concept.

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Tesla’s own former AI engineer trolls the company: ‘full self-wiping’

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He was among the presenters at Tesla’s AI Day in 2022. Zaman was also among the engineers that Elon Musk brought from Tesla to Twitter, now X, to help as the CEO was firing more than half the staff at the social media platform. In 2023, he brought his talents to Google DeepMind. Even if it’s just to troll.

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

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To improve the safety of autonomous systems, MIT engineers have developed a system that can sense tiny changes in shadows on the ground to determine if there’s a moving object coming around the corner. It may be a shadow of some person running from behind the corner or a parked car, so the autonomous car can slow down or stop completely.

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ICL model predicts lithium-ion batteries most competitive for storage applications by 2030

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The model, which incorporates data from more than 30 peer-reviewed studies, shows that at present, the cheapest energy storage mechanism is pumped-storage hydroelectricity, where water is pumped to a higher elevation with spare energy, then released to harvest the energy when needed. —senior author Iain Staffell. 2018.12.008.

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This IEEE Society’s Secret to Boosting Student Membership

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Budding engineers serve on the RAS board of directors, have voting privileges, and work within technical committees. Since 2018, student membership has grown by more than 50 percent to 5,436. The events give the budding engineers an opportunity to talk with leaders they normally wouldn’t meet, Tricomi says.

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