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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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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. Qi notes that he has been with Waymo since 2019, after deciding between job offers from both the Alphabet-owned company and Tesla. .

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7 Scholarships Exclusively for Women Studying Engineering

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The 2U Scholarship program is available only to students at George Washington University , American University , Syracuse University , Washington University in St. Louis , and the University of California, Berkeley. A chosen student receives $1,000. Awardees can receive up to $10,000 to use toward tuition.

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UCI-led study finds crowd-sourced crash alerts beat corresponding Highway Patrol reported crashes

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A new University of California, Irvine-led pilot study finds , on average, Waze “crash alerts” occur two minutes and 41 seconds prior to their corresponding California Highway Patrol (CHP)-reported crash. 2019) “Crowdsourced Traffic Data as an Emerging Tool to Monitor Car Crashes.” A paper on the work is published in JAMA Surgery.

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Safer and Self-Driving Cars Now on Roads

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Advanced technology, prototype vehicles, and business plans are being developed by Google, car sharing services like Car2Go (Daimler), Uber, automakers, network providers, software and technology suppliers. In 2019, one hundred Volvo’s in Gothenburg, Sweden, will be on the road and will self-drive with the touch of a button.

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Tesla’s Autopilot Depends on a Deluge of Data

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In 2019, Elon Musk stood up at a Tesla day devoted to automated driving and said , “Essentially everyone’s training the network all the time, is what it amounts to. Amateur Tesla hacker Green told Spectrum that he identified over 900 Autopilot test campaigns, before the company stopped numbering them in 2019.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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DOE received more than 160 applications for 2019 TCF funding, with project teams engaging more than 90 different partners across multiple diverse disciplines. Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. Arlington, Texas Environmental Insights Explorer for Buildings, $750,000 Google, Mountian View, Calif. Pipersville, Pa.