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MIT autonomous boats can target and latch onto each other: dynamic roboat structures

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To further that vision, MIT researchers have given new capabilities to their fleet of robotic boats—which are being developed as part of an ongoing project—that lets them target and clasp onto each other, and keep trying if they fail. Moreover, the roboat notices if it has missed the connection, backs up, and tries again.

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Inventor of AT&T’s Datakit, the First Virtual Connection Switch, Dies at 85

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AT&T named him chief scientist, and in that position he worked on developing architecture and protocols for a large-scale Internet so that customers could connect to it from their homes. While a student at Staffordshire University , in England, he was an intern at electrical equipment manufacturer English Electric in Stafford.

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Toyota’s Collaborative Safety Research Center launches 5-year, $35M program on autonomous and connected vehicle technologies

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The new research effort, named CSRC Next, will focus on the challenges and opportunities of autonomous and connected vehicle technologies over the next decade. CSRC is working with the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) and Toyota Connected (TC). Another, with MIT, modelled in-vehicle voice command systems and driver behavior.

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Video Friday: Pedipulate

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This work, by Philip Arm, Mayank Mittal, Hendrik Kolvenbach, and Marco Hutter from ETHZ RSL, will be presented at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation ( ICRA 2024 ) in May in Japan (see events calendar above). NRL did some interesting stuff with Nexi robots from MIT and made their own videos.

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Two Oddball Ideas for a Megaqubit Quantum Computer

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But connecting them all by coaxial cable to control and readout electronics, which work at room temperature, would be impossible. At the IEEE International Electron Device Meeting (IEDM) in December, two groups of researchers suggest that silicon might not be the best answer. They settled on near terahertz radiation—specifically 0.26

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Clever Compression of Some Neural Nets Improves Performance

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Somehow it builds internal representations of the data that it can take in different directions. For each snippet of sound, it would guess the word or words, and update its connections based on whether it’s right or wrong. They’ll present their paper this month, at the NeurIPS (Neural Information Processing Systems) AI conference.

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How MIT’s Muriel Medard Pioneered the Universal Decoder

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The MIT electrical engineering and computer science professor’s positive thinking has led to new ways to improve tried-and-true techniques in the field of information theory. She liked working on creative projects and mathematics, so she decided to study math and literature at MIT. She returned to MIT as a faculty member in 2000.