Remove Connect Remove Document Remove Google Remove Universal
article thumbnail

Ending an Ugly Chapter in Chip Design

Cars That Think

It pitted established male EDA experts against two young female Google computer scientists, and the underlying argument had already led to the firing of one Google researcher. While still at Google, Chatterjee’s team produced a paper titled “ Stronger Baselines ”, critical of the research published in Nature.

Design 131
article thumbnail

Tomorrow’s AI Will Reason Like Humans, IBM Watson Developer Predicts

Cars That Think

for 33 years before he joined Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., After graduating from high school at the top of his class, he earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1975 from the University of Tehran , then a master's degree in EE from Imperial College London in 1976. as vice president for research.

Iran 119
article thumbnail

Where to locate public chargers?

Electric Auto Association

The Union of Concerned Scientists documents that an ICE vehicle in Ohio must maintain an average of 60 mpg to equal the emissions used to produce what’s needed to run an EV for the same distance. not internet-connected) and networked (internet-connected). In California, it is 134 mpg.

DC 78
article thumbnail

Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. In April 1999, the Israeli company M-Systems filed a patent application titled “Architecture for a Universal Serial Bus-based PC flash disk.”

Singapore 145
article thumbnail

Lewis H. Latimer: A Life of Lightbulb Moments

Cars That Think

But the existential dread associated with being a Black man without documents certifying that he was free became more pitched when the U.S. limited connection with the everyday existence of Black people in America.” A Black Boston minister paid to free him. Supreme Court, in the 1857 Dred Scott v.

Light 104
article thumbnail

How Police Exploited the Capitol Riot’s Digital Records

Cars That Think

According to charging documents, at 10:57 that evening, a PayPal account registered to a Gmail address paid US $84.72 One of these warrants, served on Google and covering the interior of the Capitol, showed that a device associated with the Gmail account in question entered the Senate Wing door at 2:18 p.m. on 6 January.

Google 144
article thumbnail

Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

Cars That Think

Dan Fisher of the University of Glasgow, who has published on SIVE. For more than a decade, European courts have documented and declared illegal routine European state border agency actions that include navy vessels pushing migrant boats back into international waters and abandoning them there. Member States,” says geographer.

Europe 142