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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. The former executive vice president of Samsung Research’s Global AI Centers specializes in end-to-end speech recognition, end-to-end text-to-speech tools, and language modeling.

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X PRIZE Foundation Aims to Launch $100M in Prizes Over Next 10 Years, Targeting 4 Key Areas

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The X PRIZE Foundation (XPF) is expanding its vision to address worldwide challenges in the areas of Energy & Environment; Exploration of the Oceans and Space; Life Sciences; and Education & Global Development with $100 million in prizes over the next 10 years. Energy & Environment. Education & Global Development.

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Finding The Wisest Ways To Global AI Regulation

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The heads of OpenAI and Google have both openly discussed the need for regulations. That includes the National AI Research Resource , which I have been personally passionate about for quite a few years. We’re seeing a lot of calls for regulation right now for artificial intelligence. Wald: Yeah. The third part of this is talent.

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U-Mich Mobility Transformation Center targeting full autonomous vehicle deployment in Ann Arbor by 2021

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In October, U-M regents approved plans for a one-of-a-kind driverless car test environment near North Campus. With the growing transportation demands of a rising global population, is there any hope of reducing those numbers? Earlier post.). The 30-acre, $6.5 Across the globe, traffic fatalities clear the million mark every year.

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Meet Mr. Internet: Vint Cerf

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The two had been exchanging ideas in person and via email and reviewing the work of others who were trying to solve similar issues. The networks couldn’t be changed and couldn’t know that they were part of the Internet, because they already existed,” Cerf recalls recently in an interview at his office at Google, in Reston, Va.

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Ford, GM rolling out third-party developer programs for in-vehicle apps

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With more than three dozen AppLink-compatible apps publicly available on Apple iOS and Google Android, the SDK is now mature enough that Ford engineers are ready to let larger ecosystem of developers try it out. Globally, there are now more than 1 billion smartphone users, a population that is expected to double by 2015.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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Personal computers in the late 1980s began incorporating CD-ROM drives, but initially these could read only from prerecorded disks and could not store user-generated data. 7 billion In 2021, global sales of thumb drives from all manufacturers surpassed $7 billion, a number that is expected to rise to more than $10 billion by 2028.

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