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The Engineer Behind Samsung’s Speech Recognition Software

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Every time you use your voice to generate a message on a Samsung Galaxy mobile phone or activate a Google Home device, you’re using tools Chanwoo Kim helped develop. Friends of his who were working on such projects at Google in Mountain View, Calif., Kim saw a role for his expertise in the endeavor—he has a Ph.D.

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IEEE Honors Iconic Engineers

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CERF Google, LLC Reston, Va. MOURA Carnegie Mellon “For contributions to theory and practice of statistical, graph, and distributed signal processing.” IEEE MILDRED DRESSELHAUS MEDAL Sponsor: Google, LLC MELBA CRAWFORD Purdue University West Lafayette, Ind. Meet the recipients of the 2023 IEEE Medals and Recognitions.

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First drive: US spec Audi A3 Sportback e-tron plug-in hybrid; 83-86 MPGe with 16-17 mile EV range

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lb), the power electronics in the engine compartment, which include a DC/DC converter for connecting to the 12-volt electrical system, are compact and lightweight. Six high-performance transistors convert the direct current supplied by the battery into three-phase current for the electric motor. With a volume of just eight liters (0.3

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Deep Learning’s Diminishing Returns

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Deep learning is a modern incarnation of the long-running trend in artificial intelligence that has been moving from streamlined systems based on expert knowledge toward flexible statistical models. For example, rule-based approaches to translating languages such as Urdu, Arabic, and Malay outperformed statistical ones—at first.

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Tesla Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript: April 23, 2024

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I think if you’ve got at scale, a statistically significant amount of data that shows conclusively that the autonomous car has, let’s say, half the accident rate of a human driven car, I think that’s difficult to ignore, because at that point, stopping autonomy means killing people. I think they got approval for the city of LA.

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