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Middle School Students Catch (Sound) Waves at Duke
8/14/23 Pratt School of Engineering

Middle School Students Catch (Sound) Waves at Duke

Duke’s Pre-College engineering summer program builds opportunities for creativity and innovation through introductory audio engineering

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Driverless Cars Could Get AI-Powered Heat Vision for Nighttime Driving
8/2/23 New Scientist

Driverless Cars Could Get AI-Powered Heat Vision for Nighttime Driving

ECE Professor Miroslav Pajic says that an AI-trained heat-assisted detection and ranging (HADAR) system is a potentially promising new capability to complement the existing cameras and sensors on self-driving cars.

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Taming AI’s Outsized Appetite
7/24/23 Pratt School of Engineering

Taming AI’s Outsized Appetite

AI applications demand enormous amounts of energy and water. A new collaboration at Duke aims to make circuitry more compact and sustainable

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It Pays to Share
7/24/23 Pratt School of Engineering

It Pays to Share

Big Data’s value lies in its secondary value, and Duke ECE’s Jian Pei aims to encourage model sharing among organizations

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Jian Pei Named Chair of Duke Computer Science
7/14/23 Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

Jian Pei Named Chair of Duke Computer Science

Professor of electrical and computer engineering Jian Pei has been named chair of Duke Computer Science

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Three Things to Know About Quantum Investment
7/11/23 Duke Today

Three Things to Know About Quantum Investment

Crystal Noel and Christopher Monroe of the Duke Quantum Center discus the importance of Federal Investment in Quantum Computing, including the need for investment in the National Quantum Initiative

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How Easy Is It to Fool A.I.-Detection Tools?
6/28/23 The New York Times

How Easy Is It to Fool A.I.-Detection Tools?

ECE/CS Professor Cynthia Rudin comments on the escalating arms race between AI image-generation technology and discriminators built to detect AI-generated images.

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Ph.D. Student Receives Prestigious DOE SCGSR Award
6/22/23 The Graduate School

Ph.D. Student Receives Prestigious DOE SCGSR Award

Ph.D. candidate Eric Yeats, who belongs to the lab of Hai "Helen" Li, aims to develop generative models that can help make informed and efficient decisions for tasks like managing energy infrastructure