Abstract: Various systems and methods for implementing an assessment and response mechanism for autonomous systems are described herein. An assessment and response system for an autonomous system is configured to access a realm classification of an event; determine a hazard score based on the realm classification, a severity metric, a likelihood metric, an urgency metric, and a confidence level metric; identify, based on the hazard score, a responsive action; and record details of the hazard score determination and the responsive action in a decision ledger.

Abstract: The invention relates synthetic silicate granules comprising a mixture of SiO2, Al2O3, Na2O and CaO, which can be obtained by sintering; to their use in manufacturing an agglomerate stone material and to the agglomerate stone material resulting thereof.

Abstract: Systems and techniques for mobility-as-a-service for user experience are described herein. An orchestration log may be maintained that includes current orchestration data. An orchestration backup record may be generated that includes alternate MaaS nodes on the MaaS network. It may be determined that connectivity is lost to a first orchestration container hosted by a first MaaS node. An orchestration container is generated using the orchestration log to maintain orchestration functionality. An available second MaaS node is identified from the alternate MaaS nodes. The orchestration container may be transferred to the second MaaS node.

Abstract: Various systems and methods implement a decision architecture for autonomous systems. An autonomous system framework includes a safety ring configured to interface with safety features of an autonomous system; a security ring configured to provide authentication and verification services to transactions passed through the security ring; a privacy ring configured to ensure privacy of a user of the autonomous system; a trustworthiness ring configured to log and provide transparency of transactions passed through the trustworthiness ring; and a well-being ring configured to interface with the user and provide feedback and information to the user on a state of the autonomous system, wherein: each of the safety, security, privacy, trustworthiness, and well-being rings include at least one interface to at least one other of the safety, security, privacy, trustworthiness, and well-being rings.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving a 3D image including an object depicted in the image, the 3D image comprising an ordered set of 2D images; determining a contour around the object in a first of said 2D images; and determining a contour around the object in a second of said 2D images, the second 2D image being non-contiguous with the first in said ordered set, having an intermediate region comprising one or more intermediate ones of said 2D images between the first and second 2D images within said ordered set. In each of the first and second 2D images, inside of the contour is classified as foreground and outside of the contour is classified as background. The method further comprises performing a 3D geodesic distance computation to classify points in the intermediate region as foreground of background.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for assembling particles having a long axis, a short axis and an average aspect ratio of 10-10,000. The method includes agitating a combination of a first solution, a second solution and the particles in any order to form a mixture wherein one of the first solution and the second solution is in the form of droplets dispersed in the other of the first solution and the second solution and the long axis of the particles is longer than a diameter of the droplets in the mixture, and continuing the agitation until the particles assemble into aggregates of particles with at least 30% of the particles aligned in parallel along the long axis. Aggregate or aggregate composites form by the method are also described.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving a 3D image including an object depicted in the image, the 3D image comprising an ordered set of 2D images; determining a contour around the object in a first of said 2D images; and determining a contour around the object in a second of said 2D images, the second 2D image being non-contiguous with the first in said ordered set, having an intermediate region comprising one or more intermediate ones of said 2D images between the first and second 2D images within said ordered set. In each of the first and second 2D images, inside of the contour is classified as foreground and outside of the contour is classified as background. The method further comprises performing a 3D geodesic distance computation to classify points in the intermediate region as foreground of background.

Abstract: A reconfigurable tool suitable for use with a stereolithographic printer for composite manufacturing of a shaped object, comprising a bundle of a plurality of light transmitting rods each having a longitudinal axis, a diameter and first and second end surfaces, said rods being arranged in parallel, and each said rod being independently movable in an axial direction relative to other said rods when a shaping surface having a shape is pressed against the first end surfaces of the rods to thereby position the second end surfaces of the rods to form a negative relief of the shape of the shaping surface, and a releasable locking mechanism for maintaining the rods in the positions that forms the negative relief. Also, a method for printing a shaped object having a shape of a shaped surface using a stereolithographic printer in combination with the reconfigurable tool.

Abstract: Disclosure herein are systems and methods for dynamically adjusting infrastructure items, such as street lights, construction signage, and/or other lighting elements. The systems and methods may include receiving environmental data for a sector containing the infrastructure items. A quality of infrastructure effectors located within the sector may be determined. A deviation from a standard infrastructure quality associated with the infrastructure effectors may be determined. A setting of the infrastructure items located in the sector may be changed to minimize the deviation from the standard infrastructure quality.

Abstract: A computer implemented method comprising: receiving a report on a condition of a human or animal subject, composed by a user based on a scan of the subject; inputting the current report and the scan into a trained machine learning model; and based on the report and the scan, the machine learning model generating one or more suggestions for updating the text of the report. The method further comprises causing a user interface to display to the user one or more suggestions for updating the text of the report, with each respective suggestion visually linked in the user interface to a corresponding subregion within at least one image of the scan based upon which the respective suggestion was generated.

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of feldspar granules with a particular combination of oxide constituents in the manufacture of artificial agglomerate stone materials and to the agglomerate stone materials resulting thereof.

Abstract: Various systems and methods for improving connectivity of a Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) node are described herein, including categorizing MaaS communication traffic of a MaaS node into different levels of priority and controlling duplication or repetition of the MaaS communication traffic using the categorized level of priority of the MaaS communication traffic.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for transferring streaming media playback between streaming media devices. In an example embodiment, a user may be streaming content using a first media device. The user may then send a command to the first media device to transfer the streaming content to a second media device. The first media device may identify the second media device as being on a common network and transmit a wake command to the second media device as well as media playback state information indicating a playback position to resume playback. In some embodiments, the first media device may download the media playback state information onto a mobile device. The mobile device may then provide the media playback state information to the second media device to resume playback at the first media device's playback position.

Abstract: Example solutions for zero-shot domain transfer with a text-to-text model train a text-to-text model for a target domain using unlabeled in-domain text training data, and concurrently train the model using labeled general-domain task training data. The in-domain training comprises masked language modeling (MLM) training, and the task training comprises both natural language generation (NLG) training and natural language understanding (NLU) training. The NLG training comprises natural language inference (NLI) training and the NLU training comprises summarization training. The trained model acquires domain-specific task competency, sufficient to perform a language task within the target domain. Suitable target domains include radiology, biomedical, and other medical, legal, and scientific domains.

Abstract: A computer implemented method comprising: receiving a report on a condition of a human or animal subject, composed by a user based on a scan of the subject; inputting the current report and the scan into a trained machine learning model; and based on the report and the scan, the machine learning model generating one or more suggestions for updating the text of the report. The method further comprises causing a user interface to display to the user one or more suggestions for updating the text of the report, with each respective suggestion visually linked in the user interface to a corresponding subregion within at least one image of the scan based upon which the respective suggestion was generated.

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of feldspar granules with a particular combination of oxide constituents in the manufacture of artificial agglomerate stone materials and to the agglomerate stone materials resulting thereof.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture for providing query selection systems are disclosed. An example query selection system includes a processor to: analyze a graph database; identify respective ones of objects associated with the graph database; obtain properties associated with the objects; identify common properties present in the respective ones of the objects; in response to determining the common properties present in the identified objects, output a list of the common properties corresponding to the respective ones of the objects; generate a table for the common properties and the respective ones of the objects; and populate the table with the common properties and the respective ones of the objects from the graph database to establish a relational database. The system further includes a machine learning model classifier to enable relational database query searching via the relational database.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for transferring streaming media playback between streaming media devices. In an example embodiment, a user may be streaming content using a first media device. The user may then send a command to the first media device to transfer the streaming content to a second media device. The first media device may identify the second media device as being on a common network and transmit a wake command to the second media device as well as media playback state information indicating a playback position to resume playback. In some embodiments, the first media device may download the media playback state information onto a mobile device. The mobile device may then provide the media playback state information to the second media device to resume playback at the first media device's playback position.

Abstract: Apparatus, systems, articles of manufacture, and methods to generate acceptability criteria for autonomous systems plans are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a data compiler to compile data generated by the autonomous system into an autonomous system task dataset, a data encoder to encode the dataset for input into a rule distillation neural network architecture, a model trainer to train the rule distillation neural network architecture, an adaptor to adapt the trained rule distillation neural network architecture to a new input data domain using the autonomous system task dataset, a verifier to generate formally verified acceptability criteria, and an inferer to evaluate a control command, the evaluation resulting in an acceptance or rejection of the command.

Abstract: The invention relates synthetic silicate granules comprising a mixture of SiO2, Al2O3 and Na2O, which can be obtained by sintering; to their use in manufacturing an agglomerate stone material and to the agglomerate stone material resulting thereof.