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12 Graphs That Explain the State of AI in 2022

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There's a fair bit of talk about an AI race between China and the United States these days. When it comes to cross-country collaborations on publications, China and the United States produce more than twice as many as the next pairing, China and the United Kingdom. Universities Are Crawling With CS Students.

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

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He left there in 1966 to join the University of Cambridge as an assistant director of research. After three years, he moved to the United States to work for AT&T Bell Labs in Holmdel, N.J. He earned his bachelor’s degree in aeronautical engineering in 1958 from the University of Bristol , in England.

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IEEE Power & Energy Society President Dies at 69

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Williams was granted 27 U.S. In 2006 he became a distinguished lecturer and spoke about his work in Asia, Europe, and the United States. in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California , in Los Angeles. He left in 1985 to join the Rand Afrikaans University, now part of the University of Johannesburg.

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This App Gauges Your Risk of COVID-19 Exposure in Public Places

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Albert Cheng , a professor of computer science and electrical and computer engineering at the University of Houston , is developing a smartphone app to help them do that. Cheng unveiled his app at the 2021 IEEE/ACM High Performance Computing Conference for Urgent Decision Making , sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society.

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Paige's AI Diagnostic Tech is Revolutionizing Cancer Diagnosis

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But his desire to understand how the human brain works led him to switch from physics to electrical engineering and ultimately to pursue signal processing at the University of Vermont. He was granted 40 U.S. The technique, which has received clearance from the FDA, is now used by cardiologists in Europe, Japan, and the United States.

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Portable sensors enable monitoring of pollution on smart phones; inferring pollution maps with greater granularity

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Computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego have built a portable pollution sensors that transmit transmit their air quality readings to smart phones, allowing users to monitor air quality in real time. million grant from the National Science Foundation. CitiSense is funded by a $1.5 Qualcomm, Inc.

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USDA awards Cooper Tire & Rubber and partners $6.9M for research on guayule as source for tire rubber and biofuel

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million grant to support research efforts to develop enhanced manufacturing processes, testing and utilizing of guayule natural rubber as a strategic source of raw material in tires, and evaluating the remaining biomass of the guayule plant as a source of biofuel for the transportation industry. Other current efforts. Earlier post.).