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UC Riverside team developing nav system that uses signals of opportunity; support for autonomous vehicles

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Led by Zak Kassas, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering in UCR’s Bourns College of Engineering, the team presented its research at the 2016 Institute of Navigation Global Navigation Satellite System Conference (ION GNSS+), in Portland, Ore., in September. hackable). —Zak Kassas.

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World Builders Put Happy Face On Superintelligent AI

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The first, a solo effort by Rebecca Rapple of Portland, Ore., imagines a world in which an AGI agent named TAI has a direct connection with nearly every human on earth via brain-computer interfaces. IEEE Spectrum corresponded with two finalists that have very different visions. Those AIs, in so many words, are not AGI.

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US DOE Awards $37 Million for Marine and Hydrokinetic Energy Technology Development

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The DMP design would be a fully submerged wave energy converter resting on the ocean floor, converting the oscillatory nature of a wave’s pressure fluctuations into alternating compression and expansion cycles of flexible air-filled chambers that are connected to a bi-directional air turbine and an electrical generator.

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Chevrolet Spark EV: speedy, smooth and quiet; the importance of motor control

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seconds); efficient (combined city/highway 119 MPGe); affordable (as low as $17,495 in California net after Federal and state rebates); fun-to-drive electric vehicle targeted for the urban environment. However, voltage and current actually present may not be what is commanded, and the rotor position may not be what is expected.

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The Tremendous VR and CG Systems—of the 1960s

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These interviews present a wonderful opportunity to learn more about Sutherland’s life in computing, in his own words. The Sutherland brothers, through a connection of their mother’s, began visiting Edmund Berkeley in New York City from their home in Scarsdale while Ivan was still in grade school.

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