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Video Friday: Googly Eye

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Academic outreach is at the very foundation of IHMC’s mission, and needless to say.our entire organization is incredibly grateful to have the opportunity to continually inspire future generations. Can they help the average person beat a high jumper? We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months.

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The Turbulent Past and Uncertain Future of Artificial Intelligence

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Yes, it's possible that we're in for yet another AI winter in the not-so-distant future. In 1967, MIT professor. The field of AI began at a 1956 workshop [top] attended by, from left, Oliver Selfridge, Nathaniel Rochester, Ray Solomonoff, Marvin Minsky, an unidentified person, workshop organizer John McCarthy, and Claude Shannon.

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The Vacuum Tube’s Forgotten Rival

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V-2 rockets it used to rain destruction on London. Although the Magstec performed slightly better, it was becoming clear that transistors were the wave of the future. Apollo Guidance Computer were built with core transistor logic, but in 1962 the designers at MIT made a risky switch to integrated circuits. In the mid-1990s, the.

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A Quantum of Sensing—Atomic Scale Bolsters New Sensor Boom

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This means they can get placed much closer to a person's head, resulting in a signal at least two times better and theoretically up to five times better, for magnetic images with millimeter accuracy and millisecond resolution of surface areas of the brain, says Matthew Brookes , chairman of Cerca and a researcher at the University of Nottingham.

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