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The 53rd annual conference presents peer-reviewed breakthroughs in simulation, vectorization, and physics modeling across ...

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Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) spoofing—the transmission of counterfeit signals that trick receivers into reporting false positions or ...

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With work on machine learning that uses artificial neural networks, John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “showed a completely new way for us to use computers,” the committee said. By Derrick Bryson ...