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As it does every year, the Machine
Intelligence Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
at the University of Florida entered an experimental submarine in the 2004 International
Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition, an event that allows students
to experience real-world design constraints and limitations. As they
originally stated on their web site, "Science Fiction fans of the 1960s
may recognize the new design, as it is founded on the Flying Sub from the
television series, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. As today's cell
phones mimic the communicator in Star Trek, University of Florida is opening
up new areas for research for tomorrow's submarine." |