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5 days ago · As in a story often told by computer vision researchers themselves, the field of computer vision began in the 1960s at MIT with Lawrence Roberts’s 1963 dissertation on “Machine Perception of Three-Dimensional Solids” and Seymour Papert’s Summer Vision Project to construct “a significant part of a visual system” by the end of summer ...
1 day ago · Lawrence G. "Larry" Roberts (1937–2018) was an American computer scientist. After earning his PhD in electrical engineering from MIT in 1963, Roberts continued to work at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory where in 1965 he connected Lincoln Lab's TX-2 computer to the SDC Q-32 computer in Santa Monica.
2 days ago · The Rare Earth hypothesis argues that planets with complex life, like Earth, are exceptionally rare.. In planetary astronomy and astrobiology, the Rare Earth hypothesis argues that the origin of life and the evolution of biological complexity, such as sexually reproducing, multicellular organisms on Earth, and subsequently human intelligence, required an improbable combination of astrophysical ...
8 hours ago · Fallen military hero Ben Roberts-Smith - who spectacularly failed to clear his name from war crime allegations - has received a special honour from King Charles III in a formal ceremony.. Mr ...
10 hours ago · In a much-anticipated decision that many scientific groups had feared, the U.S. Supreme Court today overturned a 40-year-old doctrine that gave federal agencies considerable leeway in interpreting laws passed by Congress. The 6-to-3 ruling means judges should no longer defer to the scientific expertise of those agencies on a vast range of ...
1 day ago · J. Robert Oppenheimer (born Julius Robert Oppenheimer; / ˈɒpənhaɪmər / OP-ən-hy-mər; April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist who served as the director of the Manhattan Project 's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II.
2 days ago · A General Election candidate has labelled a hustings event “undemocratic” after smaller parties did not receive an invite. Victor Silkin is standing for the Rejoin EU party in South West Hertfordshire which covers all of the Three Rivers district as well as parts of Dacorum. But Mr Silkin raised concerns when he and candidates for the Women ...
