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MIT and Saudi Aramco augment existing collaboration; more energy research

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MIT President Susan Hockfield and Saudi Aramco President and CEO Khalid A. Al-Falih signed a Memorandum of Understanding in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, providing a framework that will greatly expand the research and education partnership between MIT and Saudi Aramco. Several elements of the MOU have been agreed to for implementation.

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MIT systems analysis identifies optimal vehicle platooning strategies

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MIT engineers have studied a simple vehicle-platooning scenario and determined the best ways to deploy vehicles in order to save fuel and minimize delays.

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Video Friday: Robot Halloween

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BARS ] Talks from the Releasing Robots into the Wild workshop are now online; they're all good but here are two highlights: [ Workshop ] This is an interesting talk exploring self-repair; that is, an AI system understanding when it makes a mistake and then fixing it. [

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NASA testing new boundary layer ingesting (BLI) propulsor; 4-8% fuel burn savings over current advanced engines

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MIT and NASA engineers earlier proposed the D8 Series as one future aircraft design concept that uses boundary layer ingestion. Hall (2016) “ Boundary Layer Ingestion Propulsion – Benefit, Challenges, and Opportunities ” 5 th UTIAS International Workshop on Aviation and Climate Change.

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Inventor of AT&T’s Datakit, the First Virtual Connection Switch, Dies at 85

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He was involved with IEEE Canada ’s Teacher-in-Service Program , an initiative that aims to improve elementary and secondary school technical education by offering teachers lesson plans and training workshops. Markus Zahn Professor emeritus at MIT Life Fellow, 75; died 13 March Zahn was a professor of electrical engineering for 50 years.

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Cognition Without Computation

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Yes, I am well aware that the computational theory of mind is a deeply entrenched one, starting with the work in the early 1940s of Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts in Chicago, and then later at MIT, where they were joined by Jerome Lettvin and Humberto Maturana. Maybe conscious experiences come from some kind of self-organization.

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Cognition Without Computation

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Yes, I am well aware that the computational theory of mind is a deeply entrenched one, starting with the work in the early 1940s of Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts in Chicago, and then later at MIT, where they were joined by Jerome Lettvin and Humberto Maturana. Maybe conscious experiences come from some kind of self-organization.

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