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Move Over, Tractor—the Farmer Wants a Crop-Spraying Drone

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Arthur Erickson discovered drones during his first year at college studying aerospace engineering. The company expanded its business to El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, starting with just a pair of drones but eventually operating three spraying teams of four drones each.

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This 6-Million-Dollar AI Changes Accents as You Speak

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Stanford University prides itself on its international diversity, touting that today's undergraduates hail from 70 countries. So a friend-group that included a computer science major from China, an AI-focused management science and engineering (MSE) major from Russia, and a business-oriented MSE major from Venezuela isn't an anomaly.

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How Duolingo’s AI Learns What You Need to Learn

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We see our work at Duolingo as furthering the company’s overall mission to “develop the best education in the world and make it universally available.” But as immigrants themselves (from Guatemala and Switzerland, respectively), they recognized that not everyone has access to great teachers.

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

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He began his career at Ferranti , an electrical engineering and equipment company in Manchester, England. He left there in 1966 to join the University of Cambridge as an assistant director of research. He earned his bachelor’s degree in aeronautical engineering in 1958 from the University of Bristol , in England.

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