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A New Olympics Event: Algorithmic Video Surveillance

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This summer, at the Paris Olympic Games, security officials will perform a much bigger experiment in the heart of the City of Light, covering the events, the entire Olympic village, and the connecting roads and rails. This article is part of our special report Top Tech 2024.

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New Resource for University Educators

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The COVID-19 pandemic forced colleges and universities to close classrooms and shift to remote learning, prompting instructors to adapt their curricula and teaching style. ON-DEMAND EVENTS Best practices. interactive four-part virtual-event series to equip engineering educators with best practices. Teaching remotely.

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EXCLUSIVE: Neuralink dragged into humane testing lawsuit – Timeline of Events

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Neuralink has been dragged into a lawsuit by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine against the University of California at Davis. We have put together an exclusive timeline of events based on interviews and an examination of over 700 pages of documents that UC Davis was required to turn over to the PCRM. Timeline of Events.

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How MIT’s Muriel Medard Pioneered the Universal Decoder

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As the head of the network coding group at the university’s Research Laboratory for Electronics , the IEEE Fellow led a team that created a silicon chip that eliminates the need for custom decoding hardware to spot signal errors. After graduating, she joined the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1998 as an assistant professor.

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Safety of flying and driving after the attacks of 9/11 revisited

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The analysis showed that, despite the events of 9/11, flying was substantially safer than driving. This very brief note takes an updated quick look at the latest available data. In 2003, Brandon Schoettle and I published a detailed analysis of the relative safety of flying and driving in the United States.

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Brain-Inspired Computer Approaches Brain-Like Size

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Today Dresden, Germany-based startup SpiNNcloud Systems announced that their hybrid supercomputing platform, the SpiNNcloud Platform, is available for sale. Systems for purchase vary in size, but the largest commercially available machine can simulate ten billion neurons , about one tenth the number in the human brain.

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Study finds Colorado River Basin’s worst known megadrought was 1,800 years ago

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Previous studies have been limited to the past 1,200 years, but there are a limited number of paleorecords of moisture variability available back 2,000 years. Although tree-ring data are sparse back to the second century, this extreme drought event is also documented in paleoclimatic data from lakes, bogs and caves. Gangopadhyay et al.

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