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WiTricity extends recent funding for a total of $52M

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As the company readies for the transition from technology and standards development to broad market adoption, WiTricity has secured advisory support from several of the world’s leading authorities on designing consumer experiences, building leading edge technology, and monetizing intellectual property. Marin Solja?i?,

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How Vannevar Bush Engineered the 20th Century

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No more is said about Bush, even though he also opposed the first H-bomb test, on the grounds that the test, held on 1 November 1952, would help the Soviet Union build its own superweapon and accelerate a nuclear arms race. MIT Museum But wait, there’s more! And it deepened during the long Cold War.

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Video Friday: Robot Soccer Finals

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What skills from the animal world can be used for industrial applications? Paper ] MIT CSAIL grad students speak about what they think is the most important unsolved problem in computer science today. [ Paper ] MIT CSAIL grad students speak about what they think is the most important unsolved problem in computer science today. [

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2021's Top Stories About AI

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But we all know that deep learning can do wondrous things and that it's being rapidly incorporated into many industries; that's yesterday's news. Her work is an interesting contrast to research labs building neural networks of ever-increasing size and complexity (recall #1 on this list).

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100 Years Ago, IBM Was Born

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And a hundred years after that event, it serves as an important reminder that the world of computing and IT that IBM played a pivotal role in building has a longer history than we are likely to think. to build the business. Data processing” was coined over a century ago, while “office appliance” was in use in the 1880s. And so it did.

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Car Crash Prevention System Wins Student $10,000 IEEE Scholarship

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Commercial trucks already have guard bars on the back to prevent such accidents, so instead of looking to improve trucks, Bayhan decided to build an attachment for cars. The incoming freshman at MIT won $600. He says that the unsustainable cost of building spaceships is what prevents long-term space travel.

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What Robotics Experts Think of Tesla’s Optimus Robot

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Because robotics requires expertise in many different aspects of both software and hardware, getting a good sense of the present context of Tesla’s robot as well as its future potential means finding perspectives from a multitude of robotics experts, including people working in industry and academia and everywhere in between. BACK TO TOP ↑ ].

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