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MIT CSAIL, Cornell study finds rides-sharing theoretically could cut taxi traffic in NYC by 75%

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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.

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Ford opening up Silicon Valley research lab

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The new Ford lab will be located in the San Francisco Bay area of California and will serve as a hub for independent technology projects and identification of new research investments and partners located along the west coast. and Ford employees working with connectivity platform partner Microsoft Corp. in Redmond, Wash.

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Virtual Reality Helps Students Improve Their Math Literacy

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The San Francisco–based company helps educators teach math to preuniversity students. Prisms VR Founded 2020 Headquarters San Francisco Founder Anarupa Ganguly “Prisms VR’s learning platform,” Ganguly says, “is taking problems from textbooks and bringing them to life.”

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Video Friday: Quadruped Transformer

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[ B&R Automation ] How does the Waymo Driver safely handle interactions with cyclists in dense urban environments like San Francisco? Jack, a product manager at Waymo, shares a couple interactions and the personal connection he has with getting it right. Robot Brains ] Thanks, Alice!

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ARPA-E to award $14.5M to 5 projects to reduce energy use for transportation

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will develop and test a mobility market and information system to incentivize travelers to pursue specific routes, departure times, modes of travel, and vehicle types in order to reduce energy use. The Connected Traveler: A Framework to Reduce Energy Use in Transportation. 1,576,345.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

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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. I’ve read it. It’s superb.

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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The ARPANET Is Born Kahn wasn’t the only one thinking about connecting disparate computers in the 1960s. In 1965, Larry Roberts, then at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory , connected one computer in Massachusetts to another in California over a telephone line. Bob Kahn served on the MIT faculty from 1964 to 1966.

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