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AI Tool for COVID Monitoring Offers Solution for Urban Congestion

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In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, in 2020, many research groups sought an effective method to determine mobility patterns and crowd densities on the streets of major cities like New York City to give insight into the effectiveness of stay-at-home and social distancing strategies.

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Ford, Uber and Lyft to share data through SharedStreets platform

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The public-private partnership is the result of a collaboration with the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO), the Open Transport Partnership and Bloomberg Philanthropies, the consortium behind the innovative SharedStreets data platform. Lyft will follow with a release their own city speed data set.

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

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At CES 2015 in January, Ford CEO Mark Fields announced “Ford Smart Mobility”—a plan to use innovation to take Ford to the next level in connectivity, mobility, autonomous vehicles, the customer experience and big data. Spatial, temporal … to make it truly valuable, we need to build it into the system. Earlier post.)

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Meet Mr. Internet: Vint Cerf

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For the past three months, Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn had been working together on a problem Kahn had been pondering for some time: how to connect ground-based military computers seamlessly to communications satellites and mobile radios. They went over to Engineering Building 1, where the computer was housed, and found the building locked. “I

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GM planning to “own” the customer relationship beyond the vehicle; autonomous Volts, car sharing and fuel cells

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General Motors CEO Mary Barra and her leadership team outlined the company’s plans to capitalize on the future of personal mobility by owning the customer relationship beyond the vehicle, building upon nearly two decades of connectivity leadership. —Mary Barra. Let’s Drive NYC. Car Sharing. eBike Concept.

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Discover Le Havre, Where Impressionism Was Born

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She worked for a year with Donald Olson, a Texas State University astronomer and physics professor who used topographical, meteorological and astrological studies to calculate the precise date and time of its creation. The buildings once were considered ugly. Visitors can take a guided tour of a model apartment in a Perret building.)

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Getting More Students to Develop Tech That Benefits Society

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Estrin, a computer science professor at Cornell Tech , in New York City, founded the school’s Public Interest Tech Initiative to give students that opportunity. In 1985 she joined the University of Southern California , in Los Angeles, as a computer science professor. The award is sponsored by IBM.