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NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Luiz André Barroso Data center pioneer Senior member, 59; died 16 September An engineer at Google for more than 20 years, Barroso is credited with designing the company’s warehouse-size data centers. in computer engineering in 1996 from the University of Southern California. He then moved to Los Angeles, where he earned a Ph.D.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2020

A study by researchers at The Ohio State University suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic had varying effects on demand for public transit in US cities. These are the health care workers, people working service jobs, working in grocery stores, people who clean and maintain buildings. —Liu et al. —Harvey Miller.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Deep learning is a modern incarnation of the long-running trend in artificial intelligence that has been moving from streamlined systems based on expert knowledge toward flexible statistical models. For example, rule-based approaches to translating languages such as Urdu, Arabic, and Malay outperformed statistical ones—at first.

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MARCH 20, 2023

This was a man with an athletic build , wearing a nice suit, and showing no signs of having suffered violence. My one great advantage has been my access to students and to scientific instruments at the University of Adelaide, where I am a professor of electrical and electronic engineering. The book proved a match.

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JANUARY 6, 2024

The degree to which large language models (LLMs) might “memorize” some of their training inputs has long been a question, raised by scholars including Google DeepMind’s Nicholas Carlini and the first author of this article (Gary Marcus). With Google Image search, you get back a link, not something represented as original artwork.

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OCTOBER 28, 2021

The online transformation occasioned by the current pandemic can be seen in a single statistic. The shifts in online usage created by the pandemic are also strengthening the case to further democratize the Internet—the idea that there must be a universal, consistent standard of use to everyone, regardless of who or where they are.

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