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AI Tool for COVID Monitoring Offers Solution for Urban Congestion

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In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, in 2020, many research groups sought an effective method to determine mobility patterns and crowd densities on the streets of major cities like New York City to give insight into the effectiveness of stay-at-home and social distancing strategies.

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Ford targeting smart parking as element of Smart Mobility; vehicle sensors, connectivity and big data

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At CES 2015 in January, Ford CEO Mark Fields announced “Ford Smart Mobility”—a plan to use innovation to take Ford to the next level in connectivity, mobility, autonomous vehicles, the customer experience and big data. We can achieve the end game of a deeper or richer data environment. Earlier post.) We are still experimenting.

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Virtual Reality Helps Students Improve Their Math Literacy

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VR headsets allow students to immerse themselves in realistic digital environments to learn math and science by solving real-world problems, such as calculating how high a house’s foundation should be raised to offset the risk of flooding. Thanks to Prisms of Reality , VR technology is being used in 140 school districts in 30 states.

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NYU Researchers Paving New Path for Robotics

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The lab performs fundamental and applied research in the area of robot autonomy to create agile autonomous machines that operate in unstructured and dynamically changing environments without relying on any external infrastructure and are able to improve their autonomous behaviors learning from their experience.

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Meet Mr. Internet: Vint Cerf

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For the past three months, Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn had been working together on a problem Kahn had been pondering for some time: how to connect ground-based military computers seamlessly to communications satellites and mobile radios. arranged a visit to a Semi-Automatic Ground Environment computer center. and University College London.

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Getting More Students to Develop Tech That Benefits Society

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Estrin, a computer science professor at Cornell Tech , in New York City, founded the school’s Public Interest Tech Initiative to give students that opportunity. In 1985 she joined the University of Southern California , in Los Angeles, as a computer science professor. The award is sponsored by IBM.

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What’s In It For Me?

Creative Greenius

Sure I’m a white guy and a card carrying member of the Lucky Sperm Club , but my family roots connect me with the struggles of a broader community with whom I share deep kinship. Neither of them with any money, any education beyond high school, or any connections. My mother and father met in Hell’s kitchen in the mid-1950s.