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By R Jungman

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Bits & Bytes from EITApr 14, 2020

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Robots for the Elderly
Apr 18, 202203:20
Drones -Oh, the things they can do!

Drones -Oh, the things they can do!

Oberoi, Karandeep. “Researchers at Western University Are Finding Unique Use Cases for Mini-Drones.” MobileSyrup, 8 Apr. 2022, https://mobilesyrup.com/2022/04/10/researchers-at-western-university-are-finding-unique-use-cases-for-mini-drones/.

Apr 12, 202204:21
Humans and Robots
Apr 05, 202207:28
Holograms for Real
Mar 31, 202202:39
Surveillance Technology: who's watching you?

Surveillance Technology: who's watching you?

DWP - Face plus & Case Management, https://www.dataworksplus.com/faceplus.html.

Fussell, Sidney. “The All-Seeing Eyes of New York's 15,000 Surveillance Cameras.” Wired, Conde Nast, 3 June 2021, https://www.wired.com/story/all-seeing-eyes-new-york-15000-surveillance-cameras/.

Sullivan, Mark. “These Crowdsourced Maps Will Show Exactly Where Surveillance Cameras Are Watching.” Fast Company, Fast Company, 2 Feb. 2021, https://www.fastcompany.com/90596320/amnesty-international-crowdsourced-facial-recognition-map.

Nov 02, 202104:50
Walmart & Self-Driving Cars

Walmart & Self-Driving Cars

Metz, Cade. “The Costly Pursuit of Self-Driving Cars Continues On. And On. And On.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 24 May 2021, www.nytimes.com/2021/05/24/technology/self-driving-cars-wait.html.

“Walmart Teams Up with Cruise to Pilot All-Electric Self-Driving Delivery Powered by 100% Renewable Energy.” Corporate, corporate.walmart.com/newsroom/2020/11/10/walmart-teams-up-with-cruise-to-pilot-all-electric-self-driving-delivery-powered-by-100-renewable-energy.

Oct 20, 202106:04
Music Lives On

Music Lives On

Davis, Elizabeth. “Schubert's 'Unfinished' Symphony Completed by Artificial Intelligence.” Classic FM, Classic FM, 6 Feb. 2019, https://www.classicfm.com/composers/schubert/unfinished-symphony-completed-by-ai/.

Hall, Sophia. “Beethoven's Unfinished Tenth Symphony Completed by Artificial Intelligence.” Classic FM, Classic FM, 28 Sept. 2021, https://www.classicfm.com/composers/beethoven/unfinished-tenth-symphony-completed-by-artificial-intelligence/.

Macdonald, Kyle. “Google Created a Bach Harmonisation Machine, and You Can Play It Here!” Classic FM, Classic FM, 22 Mar. 2019, https://www.classicfm.com/composers/bach/birthday-google-doodle-ai-game/.

Magazine, Smithsonian. “How Artificial Intelligence Completed Beethoven's Unfinished Tenth Symphony.” Smithsonian.com, Smithsonian Institution, 24 Sept. 2021, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-artificial-intelligence-completed-beethovens-unfinished-10th-symphony-180978753/.

Transcription, All Things Considered Podcast. “Team Uses AI to Complete Beethoven's Unfinished Masterpiece.” NPR, NPR, 2 Oct. 2021, https://www.npr.org/2021/10/02/1042742330/team-uses-ai-to-complete-beethovens-unfinished-masterpiece

Oct 13, 202105:38
Virtual Biopsies
Apr 21, 202104:03
Robot Helps During Pandemic
Apr 18, 202102:39
AI systems learn grammar

AI systems learn grammar

Andrews, Edmund L. “How AI Systems Use Mad Libs to Teach Themselves Grammar.” Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, 23 July 2020, https://hai.stanford.edu/news/how-ai-systems-use-mad-libs-teach-themselves-grammar. Accessed 8 April 2021.

Khan, Suleiman. “BERT Technology introduced in 3-minutes.” towards data science, 1 February 2019, https://towardsdatascience.com/bert-technology-introduced-in-3-minutes-2c2f9968268c. Accessed 8 April 2021.

Matheson, Rob. “Machines that learn language more like kids do.” MIT News, 31 October 2018, https://news.mit.edu/2018/machines-learn-language-human-interaction-1031. Accessed 8 April 2021.

Apr 15, 202103:27
Captain AI
Apr 09, 202103:08
Protecting our Heroes with Technology
Apr 09, 202103:17
Jellyfish Robot
Mar 31, 202103:19
3D Concrete Printing
Mar 31, 202103:18
Astrobees: Flying Space Robots
Mar 26, 202103:26
Dog Robots!
Mar 26, 202104:27
Ransomware & Blockchain Transactions
Mar 20, 202102:23
Robot Prosthetics
Mar 19, 202102:57
Audeo creates Music
Mar 12, 202103:44
Fake News Vaccine?

Fake News Vaccine?

Koffmar, L. (2020). Online game has transnational impact as ‘vaccine’ against fake news. Uppsala University. Retrieved from https://www.uu.se/en/news/article/?id=13994&typ=artikel&lang=en%60&fbclid=IwAR2YmieO_bgafpnbdGvNEPnXjl1PbbSCrS-FaiFNNAWMSnuIirF08XSQAro

Espina, M. & Lapates, J. (2019). Social Network Behaviours to Explain the Spread of Online Game. Bukidnon State University. Retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331131384_Social_Network_Behaviours_to_Explain_the_Spread_of_Online_Games

2020, G. (n.d.). How to market your video game and find your target audience. Retrieved March 09, 2021, from https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-03-01-how-to-market-your-game

Roozenbeek, J., & Linden, S. (2019, June 25). Fake news game confers psychological resistance against online misinformation. Retrieved March 09, 2021, from https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-019-0279-9

Mar 10, 202105:14
Discerning Fake News

Discerning Fake News

Dannenmaier, Molly. “Effective New Tool Created for Discerning Fake News.” UT News, 13 Aug. 2020, news.utexas.edu/2020/08/13/effective-new-tool-created-for-discerning-fake-news/

GCFGlobal. “The Now: What Is Fake News?” GCFGlobal.org, 2019, edu.gcfglobal.org/en/thenow/what-is-fake-news/1/. 

Mar 04, 202104:15
Easing Plant Stress

Easing Plant Stress

Debusmann, Bernd. “'Farms Are Going to Need Different Kinds of Robots'.” BBC News, BBC, 1 Mar. 2021, www.bbc.com/news/business-56195288.

Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology. “Portable Device Can Quickly Detect Plant Stress.” MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 4 Jan. 2021, news.mit.edu/2021/portable-device-quickly-detects-plant-stress-0104.

Mar 02, 202106:03
Amazon Drone Deliveries
Nov 19, 202004:01
Diagnosing Mental Illness
Nov 18, 202004:32
Autonomous Deliveries
Nov 13, 202003:57
Printed Heart Valves
Nov 13, 202003:59
Creating Something from Nothing
Nov 08, 202004:16
Robot-run Warehouses
Nov 06, 202003:14
Robots in the Kitchen
Oct 30, 202003:26
Intelligent Sensing Robots

Intelligent Sensing Robots

Soh, Harold. "Intelligent Sensing Abilities for Robots to Carry out Complex Tasks." NUSnews, 15 July 2020, news.nus.edu.sg/research/nus-robots-sensing-abilities. Accessed 25 Oct. 2020.

Campbell, Russell. "What Are the Pros and Cons of Having Robotic Automation." Bit Rebels, bitrebels.com/technology/pros-cons-robotic-automation/. Accessed 25 Oct. 2020.

Oct 28, 202002:52
Hotel Robots
Oct 23, 202003:22
Computing Cancer

Computing Cancer

Savage, Neil. “Modelling: Computing Cancer.” Nature News, Nature Publishing Group, 21 Nov. 2012, www.nature.com/articles/491S62a.

Thomas, Jeremy. “Research Team Pairs 3D Bioprinting and Computer Modeling to Examine Cancer Spread in Blood Vessels.” Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory/ Duke University, 26 Aug. 2020, www.llnl.gov/news/research-team-pairs-3d-bioprinting-and-computer-modeling-examine-cancer-spread-blood-vessels.

Oct 21, 202003:24
Surf's Up!
Oct 16, 202002:37
Nanoclips
Oct 14, 202003:08
Smart Street Lights
Oct 08, 202003:30
Sweat Sensors
Oct 06, 202004:41
Food Delivery Robots!
Sep 30, 202002:46
Self-driving minivans

Self-driving minivans

“Waymo Self-Driving Minivans Take to More US Roads.” Yahoo! News, Yahoo!, 23 Jan. 2020, news.yahoo.com/waymo-self-driving-minivans-more-us-roads-183549368.html.

“Home.” Waymo, waymo.com

Villians, Pop. Curated Royalty-Free Music Library. www.premiumbeat.com/

Sep 30, 202002:36
Climate Change - Melting Glaciers
Sep 25, 202002:08
Bandaid-Like Sensors

Bandaid-Like Sensors

Guk, K., Han, G., Lim, J., Jeong, K., Kang, T., Lim, E. K., & Jung, J. (2019). Evolution of Wearable Devices with Real-Time Disease Monitoring for Personalized Healthcare. Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland), 9(6), 813. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano9060813

Research News. (n.d.). Retrieved September 22, 2020, from https://www.dgist.ac.kr/en/html/sub06/060202.html?mode=V

Sungho Lee, Srinivas Gandla, Muhammad Naqi, Uihyun Jung, Sunju Kang, Hyungsoon Youn, Dogi Pyun, Yumie Rhee, Hyuk-Jun Kwon, Heejung Kim, Min Goo Lee and Sunkook Kim, "All-day Mobile Healthcare Monitoring System Based on Heterogeneous Stretchable Sensors for Medical Emergency", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, on-line published on 7th November, 2019.

Sep 23, 202003:51
Deepfakes
Apr 29, 202003:53
AI and medicine
Apr 22, 202003:05
Hippos & Drones

Hippos & Drones

Tang, Caroline. “Spying on Hippos with Drones to Help Conservation Efforts.” 10 Dec. 2019,
https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/spying-hippos-drones-help-conservation-efforts.

Sandbrook, Chris. “The Social Implications of Using Drones for Biodiversity Conservation.” Ambio, vol. 44, no. S4, 2015, pp. 636–647., doi:10.1007/s13280-015-0714-0.

Apr 17, 202002:42
Drones v. Border Collies
Apr 14, 202002:33
Smart Cities
Apr 08, 202003:54
Catapult into sports

Catapult into sports

Sugiura, Ken. “How Georgia Tech Is Using GPS Technology to Improve Performance.” Ajc, Ajc.com, 5 Mar. 2019, www.ajc.com/sports/college/how-georgia-tech-using-gps-technology-improve-performance/fGG7xiCxrLwKzyatt26dgM/.

Apr 02, 202003:00
Take the Air Taxi!

Take the Air Taxi!

Bellamy, Woodrow. "Boeing's EVTOL Air Taxi Prototype Achieves First Flight." Aviation Today, 24 Jan. 2019, www.aviationtoday.com/2019/01/24/boeings-evtol-air-taxi-prototype-achieves-first-flight/.

"Boeing." Boeing, 23 Jan. 2019, boeing.mediaroom.com/2019-01-23-Boeing-Autonomous-Passenger-Air-Vehicle-Completes-First-Flight.

Gregg, Aaron. "Boeing's Self-Driving Air Taxi Completes First Test Flight." The Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2019, 8:50 A.M, www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/01/23/boeings-self-driving-air-taxi-completes-first-test-flight/?noredirect=on.

Mar 30, 202003:06
Robot Umpires
Mar 25, 202004:26
Robot Deliveries
Mar 05, 202004:04
AI and Fake News

AI and Fake News

“New Tool Uses AI to Flag Fake News for Media Fact-Checkers.” Waterloo News, 16 Dec. 2019, uwaterloo.ca/news/news/new-tool-uses-ai-flag-fake-news-media-fact-checkers.

Mar 04, 202003:17