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Clever Compression of Some Neural Nets Improves Performance

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So, this is not too obvious,” says Cheng-I Jeff Lai , a doctoral student at MIT and the lead author of the new work. The group’s research, Lai says, is part of an ongoing collaboration on low-resource language learning between MIT CSAIL and MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab. These results surprised them. “So, OMP created no such boost.

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Researchers provide evidence for spillover effect in activated carbon systems for hydrogen storage

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An MIT-led team of researchers from Taiwan and the US have successfully analyzed the performance of a class of materials considered a promising candidate for hydrogen storage: activated carbon that incorporates a platinum catalyst, allowing the hydrogen atoms can bond directly to the surface of carbon particles and then be released when needed.

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Former Berkeley Dean of Engineering David A. Hodges Dies at 85

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Hodges Former dean of engineering Life Fellow, 85; died 13 November Hodges, who was dean of engineering at the University of California, Berkeley , conducted pioneering research in IC design and semiconductor manufacturing. He received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1973 from National Taiwan University in New Taipei.

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Video Friday: Robots With Knives

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Autonomous Overhead Powerline Recharging for Uninterrupted Drone Operations,” by Viet Duong Hoang, Frederik Falk Nyboe, Nicolaj Haarhøj Malle, and Emad Ebeid from University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark. Harry Asada from MIT, Cambridge, Mass., Carpenter, and H.

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IEEE Celebrates Engineering Brilliance

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ALLEN MEDAL Sponsor: IBM DAVID KUCK University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign “For pioneering work in vector and parallel computer architecture, software, and compilers that enables many performance-sensitive applications.” IEEE FRANCES E. IEEE EDISON MEDAL Sponsor: Samsung Electronics Co. , VINCENT W.S. IEEE RICHARD W. IEEE NICK HOLONYAK, JR.

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