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Toyota Research Institute CEO Pratt outlines initial AI/robotics mandates; trillion-mile reliability

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The investment is in addition to the $50 million investment over the next five years with MIT and Stanford, each close by TRI’s new offices, to establish joint fundamental artificial intelligence research centers at each university.) Home robots may be even more personally prized in our future than cars have been in our past.

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IEEE Honors Pioneering Engineers

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IEEE MILDRED DRESSELHAUS MEDAL Sponsor: Google ANANTHA CHANDRAKASAN MIT “For contributions to ultralow-power circuits and systems, and for leadership in academia and advancing diversity in the profession.” IEEE EDISON MEDAL Sponsor: Samsung Electronics Co. IEEE THEODORE W. IEEE JOHN VON NEUMANN MEDAL Sponsor: IBM Corp.

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Your Life As A Digital Ghost

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Wong describes the new digital afterlife industry in a chapter of her new book from MIT Press, We the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age. Strickland: So we’re going to dive into the digital afterlife industry in just a moment. Strickland: So how do you define the digital afterlife industry ? Wong: Thanks for having me.

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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The award is sponsored by Google. space program; she initially aimed for a career in the aerospace industry. But during her time as a freshman at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, the aerospace industry went through a period of mass layoffs. She realized that aerospace was a boom-and-bust industry, she says.

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The Essential Vannevar Bush

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Born in 1890 in Massachusetts, he came to prominence as the nation’s top designer of computers while at MIT In the 1930s. During World War II, as personal science and engineering adviser to President Roosevelt, he led all research by civilians for the military and organized the Manhattan Project.

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What Robotics Experts Think of Tesla’s Optimus Robot

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After a year of speculation based on little more than a person in a robot suit combined with some optimistic assertions made by Tesla CEO Elon Musk , many roboticists tuned in to the event livestream (or attended in person) to see what Tesla’s approach to humanoid robotics would turn out to be. Research Specialist, MIT Media Lab.

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Car Crash Prevention System Wins Student $10,000 IEEE Scholarship

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The incoming freshman at MIT won $600. I'm a very competitive person," he says, "so I was motivated to try and disprove these articles and actually build this device.". Constructing such facilities in underdeveloped countries would lower the cost of industrialization while speeding up processes. A SELF-REPLICATING 3D PRINTER.

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