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A Novel IEEE Workshop Showcases Jamaica’s Engineering Community

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The IEEE Jamaica Section is acting as a catalyst to engage and inspire the island nation’s next generation of engineering and technology professionals. The section held a first-of-its-kind workshop in January at the University of Technology in Kingston. The event attracted more than 200 participants.

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DEI Fund Supports STEM Workshops and Coding Camps

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Representation in computer science and computer engineering is critical,” Nita Patel , the society’s president, said in a news release about the fund’s creation. Supporting the next generation of engineers These are the eight winning proposals: Inland Empire data science workshops. iBelong workshops.

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Honda begins joint research with Boston University in information security for AI; secure MPC

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Honda Research Institute (HRI), a Honda R&D subsidiary, and Boston University have agreed to begin joint research in the area of data security and privacy for artificial intelligence (AI) research. In order to enable AI to cooperate with people, personal information about the users must be collected and analyzed. Honda noted.

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IEEE’s Honor Society Gave This Boston University Student Tools to Succeed

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As a member of the Kappa Sigma chapter at Boston University , he learned leadership and communications skills while accepting different roles. An active and involved volunteer Greene’s parents are not engineers. It was there that I got to explore and engage with a diversity of different engineers,” Greene says. “It Now a Ph.D.

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The Meeting of the Minds That Launched AI

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So who was this unknown person? All six contributed to AI, computer science, or related fields in the decades following the Dartmouth workshop. The identity of the person between Solomonoff and Shannon remained a mystery for some time. The Minsky Family Between Solomonoff and Shannon is the unknown person.

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Remembering Data Compression Pioneer K. R. Rao

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Rao was a professor of electrical engineering at the. University of Texas at Arlington for more than 50 years. Hwang is a professor of IT convergence and communication engineering at. is a professor of electrical engineering, also at the University of Belgrade. College of Engineering, Guindy , in Chennai, India.

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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. For the next nine months, Hylio’s team spent their days sending their drones on deliveries and their nights troubleshooting problems in a makeshift workshop in their shared living room. “We It was a trial by fire, and we learned a lot.”