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Feeding Frenzy for AI Engineers Gets More Intense

1 Μαρτίου 2018 by paulkokos

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Demand for software engineers with AI expertise continues to increase, while supply flattens Photo: Delmaine Donson/Getty Images In December, Bloomberg reported that desperate demand for software engineers who know how to build artificial intelligence systems turned a previously low-key academic event “into a recruiting frenzy more akin to the National…

Finally, a Likely Explanation for the “Sonic Weapon” Used at the U.S. Embassy in Cuba

1 Μαρτίου 2018 by paulkokos

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Researchers say bad engineering, not a deliberate attack, may be to blame Photo: Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters Photo: Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters Sonic Mystery: At least 24 employees of the U.S. embassy in Cuba heard high-pitched sounds between December 2016 and August 2017, and suffered injuries thought to be related to the noise. Last August,…

Mobile World Congress 2018: You Can’t Teach an AI to Run a Telecom Network—Yet

28 Φεβρουαρίου 2018 by paulkokos

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At Mobile World Congress, telecom companies are only scratching the surface of machine learning Illustration: iStockphoto In a stifling room at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Tuesday, Chris Reece discussed what artificial intelligence could do for the telecommunications industry. Reece, a technologist for Award Solutions, explained that AI, which…

Computing With Random Pulses Promises to Simplify Circuitry and Save Power

28 Φεβρουαρίου 2018 by paulkokos

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Stochastic computing may improve retinal implants, neural networks, and more Illustration: Mark Montgomery a.zoom .magnifier { margin: -16px 6px 0 0 !important; Illustration: Mark Montgomery In electronics, the past half century has been a steady march away from analog and toward digital. Telephony, music recording and playback, cameras, and radio…

It's Dangerous When You Build Things You Klutz, but MIT's Robots Will Save You

28 Φεβρουαρίου 2018 by paulkokos

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MIT's AutoSaw takes the risk and skill out of creating custom furniture, so that even you can do it without losing an unnecessary number of limbs Photo: MIT CSAIL Stand back, human! Remember when all furniture was custom made? Yeah, me neither. These days, it’s all about affordability through mass…

Mozilla and the NSF Hand Out $400,000 in Prize Money for First Phase of Wireless Innovation Challenge

27 Φεβρουαρίου 2018 by paulkokos

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Keychains that can network themselves for disaster response and wireless broadband relays connecting underserved neighborhoods win top honors Image: Paper & Equator Last year, Mozilla and the National Science Foundation offered $2 million in prize money for two types of technology: one designed to connect the currently unserved (or underserved) populations to…

Cryptographers Urge People to Abandon IOTA After Leaked Emails

27 Φεβρουαρίου 2018 by paulkokos

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A dump of private emails pits developers of the cryptocurrency against external security researchers Photo: iStock Photo This past weekend, multiple prominent security researchers and academic cryptographers took to Twitter to paint a big black mark on the cryptocurrency project, IOTA. The posts implore investors not to hold the currency and researchers…

'Memtransistor' Forms Foundational Circuit Element to Neuromorphic Computing

23 Φεβρουαρίου 2018 by paulkokos

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Combining characteristics of a memristor with a transistor mimics the multiple synapses of neurons Illustration: Northwestern University Computers that operate more like the human brain than computers—a field sometimes referred to as neuromorphic computing—have promised a new era of powerful computing. While this all seems promising, one of the big…

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