Michigan Engineering | University of Michigan Cogitai was formed with the aim of developing AI technology that empowers machines to learn from interaction with the real world.
New venture is on the path to build continual learning AIs
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Tracking and mitigating tail latency in data centers
High tail latency has been identified as one of the key challenges facing modern data center design.
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Proxy optimizes webpage loading for better user experience
Klotski seeks to improve users’ perceptions of how quickly a page loads by maximizing the amount of important content on the page that is fetched and displayed within the user’s attention span.
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Thorny technical questions remain for net neutrality
Not all online traffic is the same; should we treat it the same anyway?
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Pressure-sensing smartphones: Software lets mobile devices feel force
New software developed by CSE engineers and inspired, in part, by a Batman movie, could give any smartphone the capacity to sense force or pressure on its screen or body.
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Google, U-M to build digital tools for Flint water crisis
CSE students and faculty will collaborate as a part of a larger team to help respond to the crisis.
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Hacking into homes: Security flaws found in SmartThings connected home system
“I would say it’s okay to use as a hobby right now, but I wouldn’t use it where security is paramount.”
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Walter Lasecki and collaborators win Best Paper at W4A
The paper explores how automated speech recognition and crowd-sourced human correction and generation of transcripts can be traded off to improve accuracy and latency.
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GridWatch named finalist in Vodafone’s eighth annual Wireless Innovation competition
GridWatch can detect power outages by monitoring changes to its own power state, locally verifying these outages using a variety of sensors that reduce the likelihood of false power outage reports, and corroborating actual reports with other phones through data aggregation in the cloud.
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Startup founded by U-M assoc. professor gets NSF grant
Healthcare security company Virta Laboratories, Inc. has received a $750,000 grant from the National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program.