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UT Austin researcher awarded $15M for switchgrass traits studies

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A researcher at The University of Texas at Austin will receive two grants totaling $15 million to study switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ), with a focus on how it can become a sustainable source of bioenergy. The study lets us ask the really classic nature-nurture question. Tom Juenger. Interest in developing genomic resources for P.

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Video Friday: The Coolest Robots

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Deep Robotics ] Estimating terrain traversability in off-road environments requires reasoning about complex interaction dynamics between the robot and these terrains. This work will be presented at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation ( ICRA 2023 ) in London next week. It ships in September.

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Will Robots Triumph over World Cup Winners by 2050?

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RoboCup is an annual international competitive event that merges visionary thinking about how AI and robotics will change the world with practical robot design. www.youtube.com The first RoboCup, which I attended as a student, was held in 1997 in a small exhibit room at the International Joint Conference on AI (IJCAI) in Nagoya, Japan.

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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“People were really interested in clean air and clean water, so I decided there would always be interest in the environment,” Crawford says. You study many areas in civil engineering, including structures, soils, transportation, and the environment,” she says. She switched her major to civil and environmental engineering.

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Exploding Chips, Meta's AR Hardware, and More

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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. This is the conference that’s about the circuits you can make from them. Moore: Yeah.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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The 15 th Congress, also known as the 15 th Conference of Parties, or COP 15, was initially intended to be a largely procedural summit, with many major negotiating points settled and most environmental ministers prepared to sign a binding emissions treaty that contained specific emissions targets as well as commitments to financing structures.

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AI Battles the Bane of Space Junk

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In a paper presented earlier this year at the European Space Agency’s second NEO and Debris Detection Conference in Darmstadt, Germany, Fabrizio Piergentili and colleagues presented results of their evolutionary “genetic” algorithm to monitor the rotational motion of space debris. That’s still a gaping hole scientifically,” Jah says.