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This Idea Wasn't All Wet: The Sensing Water-Saving Shower Head Debuts

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In 2012, with California in the midst of a severe drought, Schneider, then a mechanical engineering graduate student at Stanford University , once again tossed out a “cool idea.” He imagined a shower head that would sense when the person showering moved out from under the stream of water. So Schneider put his shower head idea on hold.

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CTA Foundation, IBM, Local Motors collaborate on accessible, self-driving vehicles

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Our goal is to explore new ways to improve access to transportation and personalize the experience to each person's unique abilities. Adapting light and videos for users with photosensitive epilepsy. IBM has been committed to developing accessibility technology solutions to help people with disabilities for over 100 years.

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Wall-Climbing Robot Shelves to Keep You Organized

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By helping people declutter and re-arrange personal items on walls and delivering them to users as needed or wanted while providing some ambient interactions, I'm hoping to use these robots to improve quality of life and enhance our home environments.

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Using Manga to Spark Interest in STEM

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The idea for Sher-DeCusatis’s second comic, she says, came from a personal experience she had while volunteering for IEEE. Riko-chan and the Perfect Circuit , written by IEEE Member Lais Lara Baptista, follows the character as she and a friend try to repair the old lights in her grandmother’s house.

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Lean Software, Power Electronics, and the Return of Optical Storage

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But you can see, that is the government really coming in and, actually, what has often been a very personal decision of programmers, like, “What language do I use?” Cass: No, it is this idea of interdependence and these very systems that are all coupled in all kinds of ways we don’t expect. They exempted certain areas.

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Daimler joining MIT CSAIL Alliance Program for AI work; cognitive vehicles

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Such vehicles are not only able to respond to certain situations; they have enough knowledge about their environment to be able to act autonomously on this basis. Unlike smartphones and wearables, the car would surround the person and become a surrounding for a digital experience.

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AI Has Created a Battle Over Web Crawling

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A new report from the Data Provenance Initiative , a volunteer collective of AI researchers, shines a light on what’s happening with all that data. And the opportunities of synthetic data are when it’s created in a lab environment to be very high quality, and it’s targeting particularly domains that are underdeveloped.

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