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MIT, GE, Audi launch HubCab Project in New York City

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MIT, in partnership with Audi and GE, has launched HubCab —a transportation tracking tool aimed at reducing commuting congestion, decreasing vehicle emissions and lowering the cost of mobility infrastructure. HubCab tracks more than 150 million taxi rides in New York City over the course of a year.

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The Man Who Coined The Word "Robot" Defends Himself

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Čapek introduced robots to the world in 1921, when his play “ R.U.R. ” (subtitled “Rossum’s Universal Robots”) was first performed in Prague. It was performed in New York City the next year, and by the year after that, it had been translated into 30 languages. Published by The MIT Press. Copyright © 2024 MIT.

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Former IEEE Chief Financial Officer Richard Schwartz Dies at 77

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He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in business administration from Iona University , in New Rochelle, N.Y. Mancino Former manager of engineering reliability at RCA Life senior member, 93; died 24 September For most of his career, Mancino worked as an engineer at RCA , which was headquartered in New York City.

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Video Friday: Strandbeest

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RSS 2022 : 21 June–1 July 2022, New York City ERF 2022 : 28–30 June 2022, Rotterdam, Netherlands RoboCup 2022 : 11–17 July 2022, Bangkok IEEE CASE 2022 : 20–24 August 2022, Mexico City CLAWAR 2022 : 12–14 September 2022, Azores, Portugal Enjoy today’s videos! Wood from Harvard University. Good luck STEGO! [

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Virtual Reality Helps Students Improve Their Math Literacy

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She also served in executive positions in Boston public schools , New York City public schools , and Success Academy charter schools, also in New York City. STEM at the root Ganguly says she was inspired to help reform STEM education when she was a graduate student at MIT.

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Video Friday: Robot Soccer Finals

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In association with universities, institutes and development companies, we are developing research platforms whose basic technical principles are based on nature. Paper ] MIT CSAIL grad students speak about what they think is the most important unsolved problem in computer science today. [ Please send us your events for inclusion.

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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

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Fuzzy theory is wrong, wrong, and pernicious,” said William Kahan, a highly regarded professor of computer sciences and mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley in 1975. Kalman in 1972, who is now a professor at Florida State University in Tallahassee. New York City, summer of 1944 Patents One U.S.