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  • italy

    Archaeologists map an ancient Roman city without any digging

    by 
    Steve Dent
    Steve Dent
    06.16.2020

    For the first time, archaeologists have mapped an entire ancient Roman city without any digging by using ground-penetrating radar (GPR) technology (via Gizmodo). The team of archaeologists from Cambridge and Ghent Universities used the technique to scan Falerii Novi, about 30 miles north of Rome.

  • MIT CSAIL

    MIT helps self-driving cars ‘see’ through snow and fog

    by 
    Christine Fisher
    Christine Fisher
    02.24.2020

    Self-driving technology has come a long way, but it can still be tripped up by bad weather. A team from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) may have a solution. They've developed a way to help autonomous vehicles "see" by mapping what's beneath the road using Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR).