• After that DARPA Grand Challenge footage, I knew I was never going to face my demons. (oblomovka.com)
  • The $2 million cash prize for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Grand Challenge in 2005 was won by Stanley, a self-driving car instrumented by Sebastian Thrun's group at Stanford, who taught it how to navigate across the desert in California using machine learning. (salon.com)
  • I know quite a bit about real world artificial intelligence because I was on the engineering team that developed team Ensco's DEXTER (Deployable Extreme Terrain Enabled Robot) for the DARPA Grand Challenge 2005 to autonomously navigate the Mojaje Desert. (sciforums.com)
  • That was an incredible grand prix and in the end second place. (fia.com)
  • We have to talk through, ultimately, where you lost this grand prix. (fia.com)
  • Put us in the cockpit, how was this first Saudi Arabian Grand Prix? (fia.com)
  • Yeah, a good grand prix and I look forward to coming here next year. (fia.com)
  • Q: Lewis, your 103rd grand prix win and I think your hardest-fought victory in Formula 1. (fia.com)
  • Q: Lewis, there were so many incidents during that grand prix, so many restarts, but the one we have to talk about is the contact with Max. (fia.com)
  • Some closing thoughts on this victory and this first Saudi Arabian Grand Prix? (fia.com)
  • MONTEREY, Calif. - Entering the Cadillac Sports Car Grand Prix, Round 5 of the Pirelli World Challenge Series, Team Cadillac's outlook is pretty rosy. (prattmiller.com)
  • Guenther Steiner walking with Gene Haas at the Italian Grand Prix. (planetf1.com)
  • Round 7 of the season, Monaco Grand Prix took place at Circuit de Monaco. (hondanews.eu)
  • The 2006 LRP-HPI Challenge Grand Prix took place on the 15th-17th September at the ERC Wr.Neudorf, Austria. (hpiracing.com)
  • Lap your friends on the Slick Trax, Turbo Track, and Grand Prix courses, then challenge a buddy to a dual in the Top Eliminator Dragster. (dmagazine.com)
  • A modern developed scientific society must, therefore, nurture a strong scientific sector, both in education and research, in order to address its technological and societal challenges. (idw-online.de)
  • The MADReSS SPGC targets a difficult automatic prediction problem of societal and medical relevance, namely, the detection of Alzheimer's Dementia (AD). (signalprocessingsociety.org)
  • The mission of the group is to contribute with high-quality research on fundamental issues related to grand societal challenges of globalization and climate change, and transformations towards sustainability, such as, renewable energy transitions and social innovations in a global perspective. (lu.se)
  • Check out the Grand Rounds On Demand archive for our past presentations. (cdc.gov)
  • Visit Grand Rounds On-Demand to browse upcoming and previous presentations. (cdc.gov)
  • SAINT JOHN, N.B. - After 10 days of games, the 2018 World Under-17 Hockey Challenge has wrapped up in Saint John and Quispamsis, N.B., with Russia taking home gold, Finland capturing silver and Sweden winning bronze. (hockeycanada.ca)
  • Although important progress has been made and is expected in specific areas of knowledge, the interlinking of different developments in separate areas of science is crucial to address some of the grand scientific and social challenges that lay ahead us, such as the climate change or understanding life. (idw-online.de)
  • To generate cutting-edge research increasing the ability of societies to reach the UN Sustainability Development Goals, BECC currently focuses on three grand challenges arising from the combined consequences of climate change and land-use on biodiversity, ecosystem functions and services. (lu.se)
  • There's nothing like a challenging hike with a rewarding view. (travelchannel.com)
  • For river trips beginning or ending at Pipe Creek, participants must hike in or out of Grand Canyon between the South Rim and the Colorado River. (oars.com)
  • Please read our Essential Eligibility Criteria for Grand Canyon Trips with Hike In or Out . (oars.com)
  • Most hikers find it is much more physically challenging to hike downhill than up. (oars.com)
  • Nothing here about the melting pot or the difficult but joyous challenge of becoming American, but grand nonetheless. (vdare.com)
  • The moon landing was a daunting but nonetheless discrete challenge. (sunjournal.com)
  • Research on sustainability transitions has brought about important insights into the specificities of innovation for overcoming grand challenges. (lu.se)
  • Sustainability challenges associated with energy systems are complex and need an interdisciplinary approach. (lu.se)
  • The Request for Information (RFI) calls for suggestions from external stakeholders about grand challenges that harness nanoscience and nanotechnology to solve important national or global problems. (ansi.org)
  • It's a big challenge physically and mentally. (fia.com)
  • Very difficult, physically and mentally, but we wouldn't want it any other way, so onto the next one. (fia.com)
  • In response to this problem, the grand prize required interventions to reach an effect size equal to or exceeding 0.77 on a broad measure of math achievement, the NWEA® MAP™ Growth math assessment. (ed.gov)
  • In Phase 2, selected research teams (finalists) were given $25,000 to implement and test their interventions with a shot at receiving the grand prize. (ed.gov)
  • An improvement in line with the challenge's 0.77 effect size criterion for the grand prize would substantially lessen the average achievement gap between students with disabilities and their nondisabled peers-and would be no small feat! (ed.gov)
  • The challenge included two phases: In Phase 1, intervention providers submitted information on their interventions and research plans for implementing and testing their interventions under routine conditions. (ed.gov)
  • In the present circumstances, many schools face extra strains that may make it challenging to implement new interventions, as is required during an RCT. (ed.gov)
  • This session of Grand Rounds also explored some of the evidence-based interventions that can help individuals with autism make gains in their development. (cdc.gov)
  • While Grand Canyon's growth - including 38 percent revenue growth in 2007 - might make it attractive, investors could be turned off by the fact that 75 percent of the deal's proceeds will go to insiders, one analyst said. (pehub.com)
  • Since 2014, Grand Challenges Canada has made three investments in TNH Digital Health, which has developed SMS and chatbot solutions that make health care advice available to mothers as well as numerous other populations. (grandchallenges.ca)
  • In reality, learning a language may be easy for some people but a number of obstacles may make it difficult if not impossible for others. (theseoultimes.com)
  • The immigrants' native language may make it easier or more difficult to learn English. (theseoultimes.com)
  • Do you think you'll be able to make the same challenge again here in Suzuka? (formula1.com)
  • The alternative to that is licensing the Grand Theft Auto property to other people and taking a cut of whatever profits are generated from the films they make. (yahoo.com)
  • The challenge last year was bigger than starting the team up in my opinion because there is something there, you want to keep it going but you need to make a case so the owner keeps it going. (planetf1.com)
  • The export controls that the U.S. has put on Russia will make it very difficult for the Russian military to reconstitute their standoff munitions and precision guided munitions, he added. (defense.gov)
  • Here's a clever technical challenge: make a cake with absolutely no directions. (food52.com)
  • Iuga 2 takes into consideration - the more challenging it becomes to make fruitful intersectional inquires. (lu.se)
  • Public Health Grand Rounds (GR) was established by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director in 2009 to build the knowledge base of the public health workforce, make the connection between evidence and its use in public health and clinical practice, and increase awareness of key scientific and programmatic challenges in addressing major public health issues. (cdc.gov)
  • Challenge yourself, but be careful to make a list that is rationale and for which progress can be easily monitored. (bvsalud.org)
  • NEW YORK (Reuters) - If Grand Canyon Education Inc. manages to get its planned $179 million initial public offering off the ground this week, it will break a nearly four-month drought in U.S. IPOs. (pehub.com)
  • In addition to Grand Canyon, the other education company in the IPO pipeline is Education Management Corp, which is gunning for a $500 million IPO, but has not yet scheduled a pricing. (pehub.com)
  • The Bright Angel Trail is a well-defined, maintained, packed desert sand/dirt trail and offers some spectacular views of Grand Canyon. (oars.com)
  • The MADReSS Challenge targets this issue by defining a prediction task whereby participants train their models based on English speech data and assess their models' performance on spoken Spanish data. (signalprocessingsociety.org)
  • We demonstrated our system in the 14th biennial Critical Assessment of Protein Structure Prediction (CASP14) across a wide range of difficult targets, where the assessors judged our predictions to be at an accuracy "competitive with experiment" for approximately 2/3rds of proteins. (umu.se)
  • Because this process is so labor intensive, it is difficult to maintain a high level of coverage. (azavea.com)
  • Little is known about their linguistic abilities, yet some research reveals that his great-grand mother knew no English after 30 years of living in the US. (theseoultimes.com)
  • With the first-ever Climate Grand Challenges competition, MIT set out to mobilize the Institute's entire research community around the most difficult unsolved climate problems. (mit.edu)
  • The main objectives of the Challenge are to (a) provide a task that will demonstrate a high level of intelligence and autonomy for robots acting in a natural, peopled, dynamic environment, (b) stimulate state-of-the-art robotics research to address this task, and (c) use robot demonstrations to educate the public about the exciting and difficult challenges of robotics research. (aaai.org)
  • When the challenge was designed, it was anticipated that no single research institution would have adequate resources to meet the Challenge on its own. (aaai.org)
  • BECC research is about tackling the challenges mentioned above. (lu.se)
  • The 2009 "Lund Declaration" concluded that European research and innovation must focus on the grand challenges of our time, finding solutions to problems associated with ageing societies, pandemics, public health, security, global warming and the increasingly difficult access to sources of energy, water and food. (lu.se)
  • The Grand Rounds sessions highlight how CDC and its partners are already addressing these challenges and discuss recommendations for future research and practice. (cdc.gov)
  • The November session of Grand Rounds, " Polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and Protecting Your Health " addressed current research needs and the many unknowns about per- and PFAS. (cdc.gov)
  • accepted October 27, 2006 one of the most significant challenges faced by the regulatory, The rapid growth in the use of in vitro methods for nanoparticle research, and producer communities. (cdc.gov)
  • Must admit that I find Herrmann's (grand unified) language a challenge to digest, but that needn't be a barrier. (uncommondescent.com)
  • This mistake is too difficult to digest right now, I don't know what to say, I am just sorry for my Team, they don't deserve this. (grandprix.com)
  • In the case of STGD1, diagnostic screening is challenging. (nature.com)
  • Tracking and diagnosing ASD can be difficult, since there is no single biological marker, and diagnostic criteria have recently changed. (cdc.gov)
  • Predictions are difficult but we can get clues from how current trends in science and technology may play out, where physics has a key role to play. (idw-online.de)
  • The mountain stages continue with the difficult climb of the Col du Grand Colombier ahead of the riders. (sbnation.com)
  • At the same time, given the amount of new knowledge that becomes available every day, it has become difficult even for experts in a narrow area to keep up and translate the latest scientific evidence into practice. (cdc.gov)
  • The TNH team has demonstrated the value of Grand Challenges Canada funding to grow and refine its innovation. (grandchallenges.ca)
  • And then we're going to bring on the rest of the panel to talk more broadly about what are the opportunities and challenges of actually I think fulfilling the promise that is out there that innovation can actually deliver some major progress. (techonomy.com)
  • The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) held two Learning Acceleration Challenges during the 2022-23 school year, designed to incentivize innovation in math and science. (ed.gov)
  • We also appreciate all their work to collect and summarize data to understand what we can learn from the challenges and recommendations from other open innovation initiatives to inform future similar work at IES. (ed.gov)
  • As the 2017 Global Grand Challenges Summit draws nearer, teams of students from schools across the country came to Washington, DC to compete in the 2017 Student Day Business Plan Competition. (engineeringchallenges.org)
  • To evaluate the relevance and educational benefit of monthly Public Health Grand Rounds (GR), an hour-long interactive lecture series featuring 1 current, relevant public health topic. (cdc.gov)
  • The Challenge was designed as a problem that would probably need a decade to achieve adequately. (aaai.org)
  • But if Kennedy had promised that by the end of the decade America would have a fully functioning perpetual motion machine, his grand challenge would be remembered as a joke. (sunjournal.com)
  • The FRGC is structured around challenge problems designed to push researchers to meet the FRGC performance goal. (wikipedia.org)
  • We discuss the advantages of determining genetic architecture in genetic isolates in order to begin to meet the grand challenge of human genetics. (nature.com)
  • In order to meet the grand challenge of human genetics, that is, to understand what causes disease and translate this knowledge to improve health outcomes, we need to know the number and population frequency of disease variants, the magnitude of their effects on phenotype and gene-gene and gene-environment interactions. (nature.com)
  • After posting semifinal wins Thursday, Russia and Sweden will meet in the gold medal game at the 2013 World Under-17 Hockey Challenge on Friday night. (hockeycanada.ca)
  • Kelly's great-grand mother linguistic experience is not an anomaly. (theseoultimes.com)
  • Great age does not necessarily imply greater wisdom or grander experience [Stoller, 2016]. (bvsalud.org)
  • The FRGC consisted of progressively difficult challenge problems. (wikipedia.org)
  • Grand Rounds sessions will take place virtually until further notice. (kumc.edu)
  • One challenge shared by virtually all immigrants in learning English is time. (theseoultimes.com)
  • For example, besides the plasma physics challenge of eliminating surface instabilities within the burning fusion plasma, it is equally important to have a materials-based solution to protect the environment from their incursions into it. (engineeringchallenges.org)
  • And one would be in error to think that the greater intellectual challenges are on the energy as opposed to materials side of the equation for eventual cost-effective, reliable, safe, and efficient tokamak systems which work and deliver on their designers and promoters promises. (engineeringchallenges.org)
  • With support from the Veggie Van mobile market program of the YMCA of Greater Grand Rapids, the stores started stocking a variety of produce, from plantains, bananas, and avocados to locally sourced potatoes, onions, and tomatoes. (cdc.gov)
  • First, leaders should think about their institutional strategic priorities as a set of Grand Challenges: challenges that are as important as they are difficult and that pertain specifically to the institution as well as more broadly to the higher education ecosystem. (uis.edu)
  • At North Dakota State University, engineering students are taught to think of solutions to the issues challenging society. (engineeringchallenges.org)
  • Grand Challenges refer to issues where gaps in scientific understanding makes informed decisions difficult, on issues of pressing concern for the well-being of people and the environment by continued global change. (lu.se)
  • Public Health Grand Rounds is a monthly webcast created to foster discussion about major public health issues. (cdc.gov)
  • This marks the first time a computational-experimental environment has supported a challenge problem in face recognition or biometrics. (wikipedia.org)
  • Prince Olelko has a difficult task on his hands, he must balance the interests of the Orthodox Rus nobility and the Lithuanian Catholic overlord while at the same time maintaining the autonomy of the Principality. (twcenter.net)
  • With a grand announcement, the Scotts' Harbor Place seemed difficult to challenge. (eriereader.com)
  • I'm delighted that through this acquisition, these solutions will be rolled out to numerous people who might otherwise not get reliable access to medical help, and I'm grateful to Grand Challenges Canada for believing in our vision from the earliest days. (grandchallenges.ca)
  • You must have stamina, muscle and core strength, as well as balance, which may be more challenging for people with older joints. (oars.com)
  • Getting people to change their eating and exercise habits is one of the most difficult things to do. (cdc.gov)
  • The Face Recognition Grand Challenge (FRGC) was conducted from May 2004 until March 2006 to promote and advance face recognition technology. (wikipedia.org)
  • Why," Hayward wryly asks, "should social science be more difficult than rocket science? (sunjournal.com)
  • For more information on the 2013 World Under-17 Hockey Challenge, please visit www.hockeycanada.ca/wu17 , or follow along via social media at www.facebook.com/worldu17 or www.twitter.com/hc_wu17 . (hockeycanada.ca)
  • Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a group of developmental disabilities that can cause significant social, communication and behavioral challenges. (cdc.gov)
  • Each challenge problem included a dataset of facial images and a defined set of experiments. (wikipedia.org)
  • Guenther Steiner says trying to keep Haas F1 going through the pandemic was a more difficult task than initially setting up the team. (planetf1.com)
  • Today it was quite difficult to give the drivers a car they were comfortable with, which at Monaco is always key, since being quick on this track is a matter of having the right feeling with the car, avoiding the walls and gradually picking up the pace over the weekend. (grandprix.com)
  • We knew Singapore would be a difficult one, probably the most difficult track for the rest of the calendar. (formula1.com)
  • In short, engineering shares the formidable challenges of finding all the dangerous nuclear material in the world, keeping track of it, securing it, and detecting its diversion or transport for terrorist use. (engineeringchallenges.org)
  • Like most of the other Grand Slam venues, the Rod Laver Arena and surrounding complex are out past the city limits. (travelchannel.com)
  • During this session we discussed the challenges of understanding and diagnosing this complex disorder and the opportunities for early identification and screening. (cdc.gov)
  • Dr. John Iskander and Jon Baio discuss some of the complex challenges of understanding and diagnosing autism spectrum disorder. (cdc.gov)
  • These are grand and urgent challenges that are complex and intertwined. (lu.se)
  • Difficult to assess 'scientific fancy' from rigour outside of the conceptual core. (uncommondescent.com)
  • Predicting a protein's structure from its primary sequence has been a long standing grand challenge in biology. (umu.se)
  • It was actually quite a difficult race, we were on the medium to begin with and Fernando on the hard compound, so we didn't want the first stint to be that long but we had to stay out. (hondanews.eu)
  • Grand Challenges Canada's most recent Transition To Scale grant of $290,000 will support Vitalk's continued growth, including adding up to 62,000 new pregnant and postpartum women onto the platform in Brazil. (grandchallenges.ca)
  • It would be difficult to scale this manual labeling process to the entire globe, so we must turn to AI for help. (azavea.com)
  • Despite advances in health care, osteomyelitis remains a major clinical challenge, with recurrent and persistent infections occurring in approximately 40% of patients. (medscape.com)
  • Get notified about the latest updates from Public Health Grand Rounds right in your inbox by setting up an alert today! (cdc.gov)
  • Because public health is multidisciplinary and very broad in scope, building a general fund of knowledge, while a challenge, is a prerequisite for success of any public health initiative. (cdc.gov)
  • Grand Rounds sessions showcase areas of public health that have translated their own rigorous science into programs that have positive health outcomes and financial impacts. (cdc.gov)
  • Debates on what is termed America's "grand strategy" have been fiercely contested and a feature of almost all presidential elections. (isdp.eu)
  • One of the most influential academic writers on U.S. grand strategy is Bruce Jentleson of Duke University. (isdp.eu)
  • Next, leaders should adopt a Grand Strategy, which can provide a cohesive principle and vision to help them consider their resources holistically and focus on their most consequential priorities. (uis.edu)
  • Finally, leaders should take into account digital transformation (Dx), which can advance this Grand Strategy. (uis.edu)
  • This Cancer Mars forms what we call a "T-square" with the Sun and Moon, in which Mars forms a challenging square to both the Sun and to the Moon, which are already in opposition and in a state of tension. (astrodynamics.net)
  • Still, while the markets remain turbulent in most sectors for established stocks, let alone IPOs, Phoenix-based Grand Canyon's deal might get a warmer reception from investors seeking safety in an industry that typically thrives during an economic downturn. (pehub.com)
  • International collaboration and interdisciplinary science will play a crucial role to address these grand challenges. (idw-online.de)
  • Moneyball America, the vision advocated by Bremmer, acknowledges that the United States is not able to manage every international challenge, but asserts that U.S. interests must be defended wherever they are threatened. (isdp.eu)
  • Driven by the national and international grand funding programs such as the BRAIN initiative and Europe's Human Brain Project, it is expected that our understanding of the human brain function and the tools to record and alter brain activity and treat brain diseases will be revolutionized in the upcoming decades ( National Institutes of Health, 2014 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • Grand Rounds topics, which are annually solicited from throughout CDC, have included population health priorities, including tobacco control, health care–associated infections, motor vehicle accident reduction, prevention human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and nutrition and food safety. (cdc.gov)
  • The good news is that the first round of challenges are clearly defined, and motivations for meeting them are strong, as fusion fuels offer the irresistible combination of abundant supply with minimum environmental consequences. (engineeringchallenges.org)
  • Grand Trines are harmonious aspects that promote ease and bring good fortune, but also can bring a tendency towards complacency and difficulty in moving forward in one's life. (astrodynamics.net)
  • Still, the climate remains difficult, with investors skittish and more inclined to trust known companies. (pehub.com)
  • Although Russian ambitions are a threat to the free world, China remains the department's pacing challenge, he said. (defense.gov)
  • Rounds 4 and 5 of the Pirelli World Challenge Series will be telecast on NBC Sports, Sunday, May 27 at 11 p.m. (prattmiller.com)
  • It was an extremely difficult race with very challenging circumstances. (hondanews.eu)
  • Forecasting is very difficult, especially about the future. (tecplot.com)