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IEEE’s Honor Society Gave This Boston University Student Tools to Succeed

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As a member of the Kappa Sigma chapter at Boston University , he learned leadership and communications skills while accepting different roles. candidate in computational imaging at BU, Greene continues to be involved with the honor society by mentoring grad students and organizing events to engage alumni. Now a Ph.D.

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Study finds short-term exposure to air pollution may impede cognition; NSAIDs could help

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Exposure to air pollution, even over the course of just a few weeks, can impede mental performance, according to a new study led by researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Air pollution levels were obtained from a site in Boston. The results are published in the journal Nature Aging. Elevated average PM2.5

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Video Friday: Beyond the Limit

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We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. In a new study, engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder debuted mCLARI, a 2-centimeter-long modular robot that can passively change its shape to squeeze through narrow gaps in multiple directions.

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Video Friday: Co-Expression

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We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. A challenging aspect of this coexistence is that the robot is required to reliably solve complex path-planning problems in a dynamically changing environment. Paper ] Thanks, Kelly!

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Deep Learning Can’t be Trusted Brain Modelling Pioneer Says

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The inability of a typical deep learning program to perform well on more than one task, for example, severely limits application of the technology to specific tasks in rigidly controlled environments. Our brains learn to recognize and predict objects and events in a changing world that is filled with unexpected events,” he says.

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Video Friday: Preparing for the SubT Final

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We'll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here's what we have so far ( send us your events !): Boston Dynamics ] Digit's engineered to be a multipurpose machine. Meaning, it needs to be able to perform a collection of tasks in practically any environment.

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Video Friday: Googly Eye

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We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Preceding the global events of 2020, the IHMC Robotics Open House was an annual event. Boston Dynamics ] What can robots actually do.today? IHMC ] Thanks, William!