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Ending an Ugly Chapter in Chip Design

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It pitted established male EDA experts against two young female Google computer scientists, and the underlying argument had already led to the firing of one Google researcher. While still at Google, Chatterjee’s team produced a paper titled “ Stronger Baselines ”, critical of the research published in Nature.

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The Metaverse Could Help Us Better Understand Reality

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We're now seeing something similar happen with the word metaverse , coined in Neal Stephenson's 1992 novel Snow Crash where it referred to the successor of our two-dimensional Internet. We're hearing that everyone will need access to the metaverse, that this virtual universe will be the place we'll all soon be working and playing.

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Safer and Self-Driving Cars Now on Roads

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Advanced technology, prototype vehicles, and business plans are being developed by Google, car sharing services like Car2Go (Daimler), Uber, automakers, network providers, software and technology suppliers. DOT, NHTSA and the University of Michigan. So far, permits have been issued to Google, Mercedes-Benz, Tesla, Delphi, and Audi.

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The Rise of SQL

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“This ubiquity means that every software developer will have to interact with databases no matter the field, and SQL is the de facto standard for interacting with databases,” says Andy Pavlo , a professor specializing in database management at the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) School of Computer Science and a member of the CMU database group.

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Help Build the Future of Assistive Technology

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This article is sponsored by California State University, Northridge (CSUN). California State University, Northridge (CSUN). For more than three decades, the university has hosted the world's largest assistive technology conference. The university is also home to a sister degree, the. Your smartphone is getting smarter.

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Competing Visions Underpin China’s Quantum Computer Race

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Like their competitors IBM , Google , Honeywell , and D-Wave , both Chinese companies profess to be developing "full stack" quantum businesses, offering access to quantum computing through the cloud coupled with their own suite of algorithms, software, and consulting services. We can read a qubit.

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Video Friday: DALL-E 2

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This video from UW is the first look we've had at what DARPA RACER might look like: high speed offroad driving without any external references, not even GPS. Andy Zeng at Google gives a talk on "Retrospectives on Scaling Robot Learning.". It's a real skill that works! Energy Robotics ]. CHI 2022 ]. Thanks, Mirek!

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