Green Car Congress
JULY 5, 2012
At the ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing this month in Portugal, researchers from MIT, Georgetown University and the National University of Singapore (NUS) will present a new algorithm that would allow Wi-Fi-connected cars to share their Internet connections. —Prof. John Heidemann, Univ.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 3, 2017
A new modeling study by a team from MIT CSAIL (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory) and Cornell suggests that using ride-sharing from companies like Uber and Lyft theoretically could reduce the number of taxis on the road in New York City by 75% without significantly impacting travel time.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 30, 2011
Researchers led by MIT professor Daniel Nocera have produced an “artificial leaf”—a solar water-splitting cell producing hydrogen and oxygen that operates in near-neutral pH conditions, both with and without connecting wires. The cell was illuminated over the 2 h of the experiment. Reece et al. Click to enlarge.
Cars That Think
MAY 17, 2023
Best known as a robotics researcher, academic, and entrepreneur, Brooks is also an authority on AI: he directed the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT until 2007, and held faculty positions at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford before that. It doesn’t have any connection to the world. And it’s really cheap.
Cars That Think
MAY 17, 2022
A Portable Desalination System Makes Water Potable—Without a Filter Payal Dhar (Freelance Blogger) MIT researchers have developed a prototype of a suitcase-size device that can turn seawater into safe drinking water. The unit’s one-button operation requires no technical knowledge. What’s more, it has a completely filter-free design.
Get Electric Vehicle
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Given Tesla’s degree of mechanical ability, we can expect these to be completely adequate, but nothing here is crazy small, cheap, efficient, powerful, or anything else. Not noteworthy, but Tesla must manufacture its actuators if it requires a large number of them, which it allegedly will. The Hurdles.
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 29, 2023
But a lack of standards and an increasing reliance on deep learning models to make vocal matches—models that cannot explain the connections they’ve made—suggest there’s a long way to go before voiceprinting ever gets its day in court. How Police Exploited the Capitol Riot’s Digital Records Gabriel Zimmer The U.S.
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