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College Admissions: Should AI Apply?

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He’s both a former member of the admissions committee at Yale University and now runs Advantage Ivy Tutoring , a service that coaches high school students to help them make the most of their academic abilities and extracurricular interests. One bugaboo for universities has been false positives.

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Eugene H. Spafford: Malware Nemesis

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Spafford ’s more than three decades as professor of computer sciences at Purdue University , in West Lafayette, Ind., Indeed, the field didn’t really exist when he graduated from the State University of New York at Brockport with a bachelor’s degree in math and computer science in 1979. During Eugene H.

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UC San Diego hires top robotics expert to lead Contextual Robotics Institute

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Henrik Christensen, one of the most influential robotics researchers in the world, is joining the University of California San Diego. Christensen is leaving his post as executive director of the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines at the Georgia Institute of Technology to come to UC San Diego. He earned a master’s and Ph.D.

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Ford targeting smart parking as element of Smart Mobility; vehicle sensors, connectivity and big data

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Congestion is one of the most prevalent transport problems in large urban agglomerations, usually above a threshold of about 1 million inhabitants, notes Dr. Jean-Paul Rodrigue at Hofstra University. Natl Book Network, 2011. Ford’s initial smart parking projects. Shoup, Donald. The High Cost of Free Parking.

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AI and DEI Spotlighted at IEEE’s Futurist Summit

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Divan heads Georgia Tech ’s Center for Distributed Energy. Goldsmith is Princeton ’s dean of engineering and applied sciences, and King Liu is the dean of the University of California, Berkeley ’s C ollege of Engineering. Akar is the founder and CEO of AK Energy Consulting , which helps companies meet their sustainability goals.

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The Aftershocks of the EV Transition Could Be Ugly

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As University of Michigan professor emeritus and student of system-human interactions John Leslie King observes “People find ways to use systems for their own benefit not anticipated by designers and developers. electric vehicle subsidy policy.