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Tag: COMPUTER THEORY
Better understanding membranes
Experts from the University of Goettingen and the Hereon present new research strategies
Games, computing, and the mind: How search algorithms reflect game playing
Scientists explore the links between game-solving search tree algorithms and the subjective experience of playing various turn-based games
Professor Christopher Musco receives NSF award for promising young researchers
BROOKLYN, New York, Monday, March 22, 2021 — The National Science Foundation (NSF) selected an NYU Tandon School of Engineering professor who is spearheading a project to democratize big data modeling with novel algorithms to receive one of its most…
NYU Tandon professor wins NSF CAREER award for promising young researchers
The National Science Foundation (NSF) selected an NYU Tandon School of Engineering professor who is developing new approaches to training deep learning (DL) artificial intelligence frameworks, to receive its most prestigious award for promising young academics. Anna Choromanska , an…
SUTD wins best paper at 35th AAAI conference on Artificial Intelligence 2021
The researchers have developed a novel connection which can help in the design of more efficient multi-agent AI systems.
NSF/Amazon grant supports research at NYU to help cities detect biases in algorithmically
Three-year project will develop methods and tools for addressing public sector policy impacts.
$4 million grant will help teach computer coding skills to rural Missouri students
MU’s eMINTS National Center earns grant to help advance STEM education in underserved Missouri school districts
How evolution can change science for the better
Science is society’s best method for understanding the world. Yet many scientists are unhappy with the way it works, and there are growing concerns that there is something “broken” in current scientific practice. Many of the rules and procedures that…
How to harness artificial intelligence to boost business and make our world more human
Welcome to the World of Hyperautomation
New research fellowship aims to turn ICT sustainability on its head
A Lancaster University computer scientist has been awarded a new fellowship to research an entirely new way of making large-scale computing systems more sustainable
IOPP expands OA journal portfolio with launch of Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering
IOP Publishing (IOPP) has launched a new, multidisciplinary, open access (OA) journal devoted to the design, development and application of artificial neural networks and brain-inspired systems towards advancing scientific discovery and realising emerging new computing technologies. The scope and characteristics…
Showing robots how to drive a car…in just a few easy lessons
USC researchers have developed a method that could allow robots to learn new tasks, like setting a table or driving a car, from observing a small number of demonstrations.
New test reveals AI still lacks common sense
Despite advances in natural language processing, AI still doesn’t have the common sense to understand human language, finds a new USC study.
Bitcoin is COVID immune!
The SARS-CoV-1 coronavirus pandemic has left a significant footprint on the global economy. For this reason, it had a substantial impact on the behaviour of all financial instruments, including cryptocurrencies. It turns out that the fluctuations experienced by the virtual…
Intelligent cameras enhance human perception
FAU team develops cost-efficient and high-resolution multi-spectral camera
Researchers take a stand on algorithm design for job centers: Landing a job isn’t always the right goal
Imagine that you are a job consultant. You are sitting across from your client, an unemployed individual. After locating them in the system, up pops the following text on the computer screen; ‘increased risk of long-term unemployment’. Such assessments are…
Knowing the model you can trust – the key to better decision-making
As much of Europe is engulfed by a second wave of Covid-19, and track and trace struggles to meet demand, modelling support tools are being increasingly used by policymakers to make key decisions. Most notably, models have been used to…
‘Universal law of touch’ will enable new advances in virtual reality
Seismic waves, commonly associated with earthquakes, have been used by scientists to develop a universal scaling law for the sense of touch. A team, led by researchers at the University of Birmingham, used Rayleigh waves to create the first scaling…
Lecturer takes laptops and smart phones away and musters student presence
Danish university lecturer experiments with banning screens in discussion lessons. In a new study, a UCPH researcher and her colleagues at Aarhus University analyzed the results, which include greater student presence, improved engagement and deeper learn
All that glitters is not gold: Misuse of AI by big tech can harm developing countries
New study explains how Artificial Intelligence, if not regulated, can be a threat to sustainable development
Adapting ideas from quantum physics to calculate alternative interventions for infection and cancer
New study led by Cleveland Clinic and Case Western Reserve published in Nature Physics
What is artificial intelligence?
A conversation between an AI engineer and a humanities researcher
At Bocconi, with the Econometric Society, the largest ever online congress for economists
With its 2,500 participants, 1,300 presentations and over 300 sessions, the Econometric Society and Bocconi University Virtual World Congress, from 17 to 21 August, will be the largest ever online congress for economists. The Econometric Society, a self-defined «international society…
Ultracold mystery: Solved
By manipulating ultracold molecules mid-chemical reaction, researchers crack a molecular disappearing act
A clinical decision support system to help predict individual trauma patient outcome
China’s National Center for Trauma Medicine creates a clinical decision support system based on big data to help predict individual trauma patient outcome
Quantum leap: Photon discovery is a major step toward at-scale quantum technologies
A team of physicists at the University of Bristol has developed the first integrated photon source with the potential to deliver large-scale quantum photonics. The development of quantum technologies promises to have a profound impact across science, engineering and society.…
Quantum leap: Photon discovery is a major step toward at-scale quantum technologies
A team of physicists at the University of Bristol has developed the first integrated photon source with the potential to deliver large-scale quantum photonics. The development of quantum technologies promises to have a profound impact across science, engineering and society.…
A hidden history of artificial intelligence in primary care
Artificial intelligence and primary care research: A scoping review
A hidden history of artificial intelligence in primary care
Artificial intelligence and primary care research: A scoping review
AI tool speeds up search for COVID-19 treatments and vaccines
Researchers develop machine model that exponentially shortens expert review period
AI tool speeds up search for COVID-19 treatments and vaccines
Researchers develop machine model that exponentially shortens expert review period
Using nano-scale spintronics, researchers aim to build novel artificial brain
New research project to develop novel AI hardware; a completely new kind of computer system that mimics how the human brain is built. The artificial neural networks can increase computer performance by up to 100,000 times compared to modern supercomputers
Decrypting cryptocurrencies
Cryptocurrencies have been treated as a financial terra incognita – they enjoyed growing interest but also raised concerns due to their virtuality. The use of statistical methods utilizing correlation matrices to analyze the hundred most-traded virtual currencies shows that the…
Visualization tool for illustration of critical care bed capacities
A team of computer scientists from the University of Konstanz develops online platform for the registration and enquiry of free critical care beds all over Germany
Machine learning puts a new spin on spin models
New insights into phase transitions using artificial intelligence
In politics and pandemics, trolls use fear, anger to drive clicks
Fake Facebook ads placed by Russians in 2016 earned 9 times more clicks than typical ads
Researcher receives grant to study effects of hypersonic shock waves
Chris Combs, the Dee Howard Endowed Assistant Professor in UTSA’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, is one of 40 young researchers who will receive a grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research’s Young Investigator Research Program. The three-year grant,…
Researcher receives grant to study effects of hypersonic shock waves
Chris Combs, the Dee Howard Endowed Assistant Professor in UTSA’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, is one of 40 young researchers who will receive a grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research’s Young Investigator Research Program. The three-year grant,…
Tropical nations worst hit by climate-related fish shifts
Policymakers will need to step up to the challenges caused by significant shifts in fish species distributions caused by climate change. Tropical countries stand to lose the most fish species due to climate change, with few if any stocks replacing…
Our digital afterlife
Death in the 21st century: What is left behind
Design approach may help fix bias in artificial intelligence
Bias in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning programs is well established. Researchers from North Carolina State University and Pennsylvania State University are now proposing that software developers incorporate the concept of “feminist design thinking” into their development process as…
Design approach may help fix bias in artificial intelligence
Bias in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning programs is well established. Researchers from North Carolina State University and Pennsylvania State University are now proposing that software developers incorporate the concept of “feminist design thinking” into their development process as…
Organized cybercrime — not your average mafia
EAST LANSING, Mich. – Does the common stereotype for “organized crime” hold up for organizations of hackers? Research from Michigan State University is one of the first to identify common attributes of cybercrime networks, revealing how these groups function and…
Organized cybercrime — not your average mafia
EAST LANSING, Mich. – Does the common stereotype for “organized crime” hold up for organizations of hackers? Research from Michigan State University is one of the first to identify common attributes of cybercrime networks, revealing how these groups function and…
Organized cybercrime — not your average mafia
EAST LANSING, Mich. – Does the common stereotype for “organized crime” hold up for organizations of hackers? Research from Michigan State University is one of the first to identify common attributes of cybercrime networks, revealing how these groups function and…
How vulnerable is your car to cyberattacks?
Even the smartest of smart cars have issues
How vulnerable is your car to cyberattacks?
Even the smartest of smart cars have issues
New algorithms train AI to avoid specific bad behaviors
Stanford and UMass Amherst develop a new way to help machine-learning designers build AI with safeguards against specific, undesirable outcomes such as racial and gender bias
PSU researchers awarded $1 million federal grant to develop ‘open knowledge network’
A $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation will help Portland State provide better information to agencies that manage wildfires, water quality and biodiversity conservation. The grant will pay to conduct user needs assessments and develop prototype technologies to…