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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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Get to Know the IEEE Board of Directors

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Believing that young generations have the responsibility, ability, and freedom to shape our future, Metra is focused on making IEEE an inclusive community through which all its members can find the knowledge and networking opportunities to foster their professional and personal growth.

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The Engineer Behind Samsung’s Speech Recognition Software

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An end-to-end neural network would complete all the tasks and “greatly simplify speech-recognition systems,” he says. They include the power-normalized cepstral coefficients , which improve the accuracy of speech recognition in environments with disturbances such as additive noise, changes in the signal, multiple speakers, and reverberation.

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BMW Connected North America makes its world debut at Microsoft Build 2016; powered by Azure

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BMW Connected, a new personal mobility companion, made its world debut at Microsoft Build 2016, Microsoft’s developer conference, last week. Service Fabric enables the automaker to build individual mobility graphs with personalized data and real-time context. Open Mobility Cloud.

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Bill Ford: Michigan must become the Silicon Valley of the mobility revolution; emphasis on green and smart technologies

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In an address at the 2012 Mackinac Policy Conference, Ford Motor Company Executive Chairman Bill Ford said that “ Michigan must become the Silicon Valley of the mobility revolution ” and outlined key public policy areas to help improve the state’s competitiveness and ensure that the state realizes the full benefit of that impending revolution.

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Exploding Chips, Meta's AR Hardware, and More

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Moore , who follows a semiconductor beat for us like a charge carrier in an electric field. Cass: Sam, you recently attended the Big Kahuna Conference of the semiconductor research world, ISSCC. Moore: Well, besides being a difficult-to-say acronym, it actually stands for the IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference.

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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TITLE ‘Professor of civil engineering, agronomy, and electrical and computer engineering MEMBER GRADE Fellow ALMA MATERS University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Ohio State University, Columbus But her engineering path eventually led her back to agriculture. CRAWFORD EMPLOYER Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. She died in 2017.