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UC Riverside team developing nav system that uses signals of opportunity; support for autonomous vehicles

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Led by Zak Kassas, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering in UCR’s Bourns College of Engineering, the team presented its research at the 2016 Institute of Navigation Global Navigation Satellite System Conference (ION GNSS+), in Portland, Ore., in September. hackable). —Zak Kassas.

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World Builders Put Happy Face On Superintelligent AI

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One of the biggest challenges in a World Building competition that asked teams to imagine a positive future with superintelligent AI: Make it plausible. The first, a solo effort by Rebecca Rapple of Portland, Ore., IEEE Spectrum corresponded with two finalists that have very different visions. Those AIs, in so many words, are not AGI.

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Daimler Trucks NA SuperTruck achieves 115% freight efficiency improvement over 2009 baseline; 50.2% engine BTE

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To measure freight efficiency, DTNA ran vehicle testing on highway routes in Oregon and Texas; one city route in Portland, Ore.; The controller continuously monitors the engine’s operating conditions as well as the external environment, and uses an on-board computer to determine the most efficient course of action during real-world operation.

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US DOE Awards $37 Million for Marine and Hydrokinetic Energy Technology Development

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Whitestone Power and Communications (Delta Junction, Alaska) will conduct in-water testing and evaluation of a River In-Stream Energy Conversion (RISEC) device that has been designed to overcome the unique challenges presented by Alaskan river environments. DOE Funding: $240,000. Total Project Value: $337,000.

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Video Friday: Autonomous Car Drifting, Aerial-Aquatic Drone, and Jet-Powered Robot

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This paper presents a quadrotor prototype of this concept and the design details and realization in practice. To enable aerial reorientation for safe landing in the quadruped robots, we design a control architecture, which is verified in a high-fidelity physics simulation environment with different initial conditions.

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The Tremendous VR and CG Systems—of the 1960s

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These interviews present a wonderful opportunity to learn more about Sutherland’s life in computing, in his own words. The display would present different views of the 3D scene depending on the direction that the user looked. Some of these figures discussed this remarkable environment in a 1994 meeting. The reason?

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