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Swimming with Sharks

Posted December 11, 2013 8:56 AM

From Oceanus:

An underwater robot learns how to track great whites. Amy Kukulya's clients often have curious requests, but this was among the oddest. As an engineer at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), she has operated autonomous underwater vehicles beneath Arctic ice in Greenland, in a New Zealand lake to find geothermal terraces submerged by a volcanic eruption, and with Navy SEALS working on underwater docking systems.

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12/12/2013 11:23 AM

This is the kind of project that would rock my world. I'd love to work the AI, or any other sub-system, really.

I wish I'd seen this back in August. I'll have to watch for a replay.

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