Open-source software gives a leg up to robot research
Carnegie Mellon researchers have developed an open-source software that enables more agile movement in legged robots.
Aug 16, 2022
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An open-source, data-science toolkit for power and data engineers
As of 2020, 102.9 million smart meters—devices that record and communicate electric consumption, voltage and current to consumers and grid operators—have been installed in the United States.
Aug 3, 2022
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Centralized traffic algorithms to help drivers avoid congestion
Delivering sustainability in traffic is no easy feat. Could software that globally coordinates cars to avoid traffic jams and congestion be the answer?
Aug 2, 2022
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Robotics
DayDreamer: An algorithm to quickly teach robots new behaviors in the real world
Training robots to complete tasks in the real-world can be a very time-consuming process, which involves building a fast and efficient simulator, performing numerous trials on it, and then transferring the behaviors learned ...
Computer Sciences
Open source platform enables research on privacy-preserving machine learning
The biggest benchmarking data set to date for a machine learning technique designed with data privacy in mind has been released open source by researchers at the University of Michigan.
Jul 20, 2022
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What explains the cryptocurrency crash?
Robert Brunner is the associate dean for innovation and chief disruption officer at the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he helped spearhead efforts to create iBlock, the first ...
Jul 8, 2022
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Teaching algorithms about skin tones
When Ellis Monk's wife became pregnant in 2019, the couple became curious about what skin tone their child might have. The subject was of more than passing interest to the sociology professor, some of whose work involves ...
Jul 6, 2022
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Open-source and open hardware autonomous quadrotor flies fast and avoids obstacles
A team of researchers at the University of Zurich, has developed a highly agile quadrotor drone that is able to avoid obstacles and carry out trajectory tracking. In their paper published in the journal Science Robotics, ...
Internet
Study finds toxicity in the open-source community varies from other internet forums
Trolls, haters, flamers and other ugly characters are, unfortunately, a fact of life across much of the internet. Their ugliness ruins social media networks and sites like Reddit and Wikipedia.
Jun 28, 2022
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Research shows Twitter drives popularity, contributors to open-source software
Want to be popular with lots of friends? Get out there and tweet. That advice holds true for open-source software projects as well, according to a new study.
Jun 14, 2022
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