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Willie Hobbs Moore: STEM Trailblazer

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home on 14 March 1994, two months shy of her 60th birthday, is the subject of the new book Willie Hobbs MooreYouve Got to Be Excellent! Moore attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where she earned bachelors and masters degrees in electrical engineering and, in 1972, her barrier-breaking doctorate in physics.

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Worry About Sentient AI—Not for the Reasons You Think

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Birch lays out these concerns in his book The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI , published last year by Oxford University Press. Birch: My own personal view is that sentience has tremendous importance. Can you explain this perspective?

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Improve Your Chances of Landing That Job Interview

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You borrow the credibility of the person who gave a vote of confidence. Most commonly, this will be your university or workplace. Engage with university alumni working in interesting roles, or reconnect with an ex-colleague to see what theyre up to. A strong referral has two benefits: Your profile gets increased visibility.

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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On 12 August 1981, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in midtown Manhattan, IBM unveiled the company's entrant into the nascent personal computer market: the IBM PC. The personal computer vastly expanded the number of people and organizations that used computers. With that, the preeminent U.S. Press coverage of the announcement was lukewarm.

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BMW providing 10 pre-owned i3 EVs to UC Davis for 18 months

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We’re moving toward a transportation system of reduced personal car ownership. This is one slice of conditioning the market, users and institutions like this university to think along those lines. They will also conduct surveys to determine how people’s opinions change about electric vehicles before and after driving one.

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How the Computer Graphics Industry Got Started at the University of Utah

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Their groundbreaking research, conducted at the University of Utah , in Salt Lake City, and at their company, Evans and Sutherland , helped jump-start the computer graphics industry. A ceremony was held at the university on 24 March to recognize the computer graphics and visualization techniques with an IEEE Milestone.

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AI’s Threats to Jobs and Human Happiness Are Real

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One such effort is a book that came out last fall called AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future. The book is co-written by. Universal basic income. Charles Simonyi , the person who created Microsoft word. In the book, you say that an entirely new social contract is needed. Kai-Fu Lee on….

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