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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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Autonomous driving visionary Dr. Lawrence Burns joining Neural Propulsion Systems as Executive Advisor; L4/L5 autonomous driving

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He has also advised numerous companies—including Google Self-Driving Cars/Waymo for over a decade. After leaving GM in 2009, Dr. Burns was a Professor of Engineering Practice at the University of Michigan (2011-2015), and Director of the Program for Sustainable Mobility at Columbia University (2010-2014).

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Tesla FSD beta team gains former Waymo research scientist

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Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta has gained its latest member, who joins the team after working at Waymo, the driverless ride-hailing system being developed by Google parent company Alphabet. Former Waymo Research Scientist and Manager Charles R.

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Elon Musk makes it to TIME Magazine’s list of 100 Most Influential People in AI

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The list includes notable leaders in artificial intelligence such as OpenAI’s Sam Altman and NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang, as well as Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis. When DeepMind was bought out by Google in 2014, Musk became concerned that the tech giant would not take AI safety seriously.

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OSU study finds varied impact of pandemic on public transit use across US

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A study by researchers at The Ohio State University suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic had varying effects on demand for public transit in US cities. —Liu et al. Fitted curve and key parameters for an example public transit agency (Capital Metro in Austin, Texas).

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ORNL researchers use stop-light cameras to reduce fuel consumption of less-efficient vehicles via traffic management

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The team’s first step in February 2018 was to use GRIDSMART cameras to create an image dataset of vehicle classes. Additionally, the vehicle counts can be taken into consideration when planning for construction or lane changes, as well as helping measure the effects of traffic-control changes.

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Competing Visions Underpin China’s Quantum Computer Race

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Like their competitors IBM , Google , Honeywell , and D-Wave , both Chinese companies profess to be developing "full stack" quantum businesses, offering access to quantum computing through the cloud coupled with their own suite of algorithms, software, and consulting services. We can read a qubit.

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