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A First: An AI System Has Been Named An Inventor

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Abbott, a physician as well as a lawyer, is a professor of law and health sciences at the University of Surrey’s School of Law. He also is an adjunct assistant professor at the Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, and he wrote The Reasonable Robot: Artificial Intelligence and the Law.

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

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I didn’t know that word, honestly,” (presumably referring to the word “mayday.”) “And I just heard it freaking coming on that he lost his rudder, that he needed pumps.” Stillwell asked if they had heard the call. “I I was putting my gloves and everything on the rack,” Libby told him. “I I heard it. Both men denied making the call.

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TSMC R&D Chief: There’s Light at the End of the Chip Shortage

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The commercial term nanometer refers to a new, improved generation of silicon semiconductor chips.). Mii earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University , and his master’s and Ph.D., also in EE, from the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Asad Madni and the Life-Saving Sensor

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Madni Current job: Distinguished adjunct professor, University of California, Los Angeles ; retired president, CEO, and CTO, BEI Technologies Date of birth: 8 September 1947 Birthplace: Mumbai, India Family: Wife (Taj), son (Jamal) Education: 1968 graduate, RCA Institutes ; B.S., 1969, and M.S., 1969, and M.S., 1969, and M.S.,

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Speech Processing Pioneer Sadaoki Furui Dies at 77

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Among the awards he received was a 2016 Bunka Korosha (Person of Cultural Merit) Award , one of the highest honors bestowed by the Japanese government. He earned bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in mathematical engineering and instrumentation physics from the University of Tokyo in 1968, 1970, and 1978, respectively.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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At issue is the 2012 expiration of the Kyoto Protocol, a binding but effectively unenforceable 1997 treaty that had set greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets for 40 industrialized countries, referred to as Annex 1 countries, yielding an average GHG reduction of 5.2%

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Medal of Honor Goes to Microsensor and Systems Pioneer

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Madni has been a distinguished adjunct professor of electrical and computer engineering and distinguished scientist since 2011 at the Samueli School of Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. I know of no one else more deserving of the IEEE Medal of Honor.”