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CTA Foundation, IBM, Local Motors collaborate on accessible, self-driving vehicles

Green Car Congress

To begin identifying new innovations in accessible transportation, the CTA Foundation, IBM and Local Motors will launch a series of workshops and hackathons throughout 2017 to reach innovators of all ages, backgrounds and abilities. Adapting light and videos for users with photosensitive epilepsy.

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NSF leads $400M federal effort to boost advanced wireless research

Green Car Congress

Experts anticipate as many as 200 billion connected devices globally by 2020. The second will seek innovative ways to provide low-cost, seamless connectivity in urban areas by leveraging fiber optics in light poles. Large-Scale Networking Platforms “Communities of Practice” Workshop. NSF Workshop on Ultra-Low Latency Networks.

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The Godfather of South Korea’s Chip Industry

Cars That Think

By the beginning of the 21st century, South Korea had become a dominant power in the global semiconductor market, meeting more than 60 percent of international demand for memory chips alone. And in 2019, he was named a Person of Distinguished Service to Science and Technology, one of the nation’s highest honors. Chang Hae-Ja.

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Q&A: Marc Raibert on the Boston Dynamics AI Institute

Cars That Think

Sony was really the trigger—we’d worked for them quietly for about five years and made a running AIBO which never saw the light of day, and then we worked on their little humanoid QRIO , building tools that made it possible to do choreography. It took a while before we got back to robotics. Robots just aren’t anything like that.

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The Turbulent Past and Uncertain Future of Artificial Intelligence

Cars That Think

John McCarthy , then a young professor at Dartmouth, had coined the term "artificial intelligence" when he wrote his proposal for the workshop, which he said would explore the hypothesis that "every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it.".

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Our Founders Story

My Energi

The continued global rise of myenergi is down to each and every team member, supplier, investor and supporter that has joined us for the journey. Occasionally, we saw the light at the end of the tunnel. At other times, it felt like the weight of the world was on our shoulders. But through it all, we’ve remained focused on our dream.

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Inside The Green Task Force

Creative Greenius

For more than a year now in this blog I’ve been researching and reporting on climate change, energy and transportation issues and related environmental stories covering them on both a personal and a global perspective. The truth is, I’m unabashedly fascinated by and truly interested in the work they’re doing.

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