A smart way to predict building energy consumption

In a time of aging infrastructure and increasingly smart control of buildings, the ability to predict how buildings use energy–and how much energy they use–has remained elusive, until now. Researchers from Saudi Arabia, China and the United States collaborated to…

Artificial intelligence, human gene-editing ethics and more at the AAAS Annual Meeting in Seattle

PRESS REGISTRATION: Credentialed reporters and public information officers may register online: http://www. eurekalert. org/ aaasnewsroom/ 2020/ registration SEATTLE, Wash. — The growing use of artificial intelligence in society, how math can help address political gerrymandering, the ethics of human gene-editing,…

Artificial intelligence, human gene-editing ethics and more at the AAAS Annual Meeting in Seattle

PRESS REGISTRATION: Credentialed reporters and public information officers may register online: http://www. eurekalert. org/ aaasnewsroom/ 2020/ registration SEATTLE, Wash. — The growing use of artificial intelligence in society, how math can help address political gerrymandering, the ethics of human gene-editing,…

Artificial intelligence, human gene-editing ethics and more at the AAAS Annual Meeting in Seattle

PRESS REGISTRATION: Credentialed reporters and public information officers may register online: http://www. eurekalert. org/ aaasnewsroom/ 2020/ registration SEATTLE, Wash. — The growing use of artificial intelligence in society, how math can help address political gerrymandering, the ethics of human gene-editing,…

Prostate cancer can now be diagnosed better using artificial intelligence

Researchers at Radboud university medical center have developed a ‘deep learning’ system that is better than most pathologists at determining the aggressiveness of prostate cancer. The AI system, which uses tissue samples to arrive at its diagnosis, taught itself to…

Prostate cancer can now be diagnosed better using artificial intelligence

Researchers at Radboud university medical center have developed a ‘deep learning’ system that is better than most pathologists at determining the aggressiveness of prostate cancer. The AI system, which uses tissue samples to arrive at its diagnosis, taught itself to…

Using a robot to deploy robots in remote oceans

A researcher at the University of East Anglia (UEA) has helped design a sea-going robot to deploy research equipment in remote and inaccessible ocean locations. The AutoNaut – an unmanned surface vessel – has been specially-adapted to carry and release…

Skin-like sensors bring a human touch to wearable tech

Artificial ‘skin’ sensor could be the future of wearable and stretchable electronics, with applications in wound-healing, gaming and more

IEEE honors NYU Tandon Game Innovation Lab director for contributions to AI

BROOKLYN, New York, Wednesday, January 8, 2020 – The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computational Intelligence Society honored Julian Togelius, an associate professor of computer science and engineering and the director of the Game Innovation Lab at the…

Skin-like sensors bring a human touch to wearable tech

Artificial ‘skin’ sensor could be the future of wearable and stretchable electronics, with applications in wound-healing, gaming and more

IEEE honors NYU Tandon Game Innovation Lab director for contributions to AI

BROOKLYN, New York, Wednesday, January 8, 2020 – The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computational Intelligence Society honored Julian Togelius, an associate professor of computer science and engineering and the director of the Game Innovation Lab at the…

Severe childhood deprivation has longstanding impacts on brain size in adulthood

Researchers from King’s College London have shown that the brains of young adult Romanian adoptees who were institutionalised as children are around 8.6% smaller than the brains of English adoptees who have not suffered this form of deprivation. According to…

University startups championing UK innovation at the world’s largest tech show

Tech entrepreneurs from the University of Southampton will unveil pioneering research based tech products in prosthetics design, cybersecurity and quantum technology at CES 2020

Severe childhood deprivation has longstanding impacts on brain size in adulthood

Researchers from King’s College London have shown that the brains of young adult Romanian adoptees who were institutionalised as children are around 8.6% smaller than the brains of English adoptees who have not suffered this form of deprivation. According to…

University startups championing UK innovation at the world’s largest tech show

Tech entrepreneurs from the University of Southampton will unveil pioneering research based tech products in prosthetics design, cybersecurity and quantum technology at CES 2020

Finally, machine learning interprets gene regulation clearly

In this age of “big data,” artificial intelligence (AI) has become a valuable ally for scientists. Machine learning algorithms, for instance, are helping biologists make sense of the dizzying number of molecular signals that control how genes function. But as…

AI achieved a score of 185 on the English written exam of the National Center Test For University Admissions in 2019

The Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT, CEO: Jun Sawada) took the English written exam of the 2019 National Center Test for University Admissions and achieved high marks of 185 points (64.1 T-score). This reflects its research and development of…

Moms’ obesity in pregnancy is linked to lag in sons’ development and IQ

December 23, 2019 — A mother’s obesity in pregnancy can affect her child’s development years down the road, according to researchers who found lagging motor skills in preschoolers and lower IQ in middle childhood for boys whose mothers were severely…

AI system for Minecraft: MIPT team wins MineRL international contest

Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology have dominated the MineRL contest. They proposed a new method for reinforcement learning with demonstrations, which enables rapidly and efficiently solving hierarchical problems in the Minecraft game environment, namely, searching for…

Obesity in pregnant moms linked to lag in their sons’ development and IQ

A mother’s obesity in pregnancy can affect her child’s development years down the road, according to researchers who found impaired motor skills in preschoolers and lower IQ in middle childhood for boys whose mothers were severely overweight while expecting them.…

AI system for Minecraft: MIPT team wins MineRL international contest

Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology have dominated the MineRL contest. They proposed a new method for reinforcement learning with demonstrations, which enables rapidly and efficiently solving hierarchical problems in the Minecraft game environment, namely, searching for…