https://techxplore.com/rss-feed/computer-sciences-news/ en-us The latest news on computer science, computer science technology, computer science technologies and technology science. While many fear artificial intelligence will replace humans, using AI to take over some human roles has benefits. Companies can use the technology to conduct surveys and polls, while behavioral scientists can run experiments on digital twins to gather faster insights without risking harm or distress to real participants. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-ai-digital-twins-struggle-human.html Computer Sciences Fri, 04 Sep 2026 13:20:08 EDT news707744508 "Find the best-selling product from last year." When an AI system attempts to answer a question like this by querying a company database, even a single reference to a nonexistent item can cause the query to fail. Until now, correcting such an error often required regenerating the entire SQL query from scratch. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-safe-query-space-ai-sql.html Computer Sciences Fri, 04 Sep 2026 11:40:06 EDT news707739662 Reliable navigation, place recognition and object interaction require autonomous robots to maintain precise environmental maps. Semantic simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) adds meaning to a robot's map by representing landmarks as recognizable objects rather than only geometric points. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-probabilistic-method-robots-localize-familiar.html Computer Sciences Thu, 03 Sep 2026 11:40:06 EDT news707653300 Large language models (LLMs), the artificial intelligence systems underpinning the functioning of ChatGPT, Gemini and other similar conversational agents, are now widely used worldwide. In addition to processing, interpreting and generating texts, some of these models can solve basic logical problems and answer some user questions with striking accuracy. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-brain-patterns-sharpen-llm-deductive.html Computer Sciences Thu, 03 Sep 2026 07:20:09 EDT news707571738 Researchers from Skoltech and Sberbank's Center for Practical Artificial Intelligence have proposed a new method, TOHA, for detecting hallucinations in large language models operating in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems. The approach analyzes the topological structure of a model's attention maps and makes it possible to identify responses that are not supported by the provided context. The method does not require training additional models and uses only a small amount of annotated data for configuration. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-efficient-method-hallucinations-large-language.html Computer Sciences Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:40:04 EDT news707584349 Computer scientists worldwide have been developing a wide range of artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Some of these systems rely on an individual AI agent, while others consist of multiple interacting agents that exchange information, cooperate and revise each other's responses or predictions. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-adding-ai-agents.html Computer Sciences Wed, 02 Sep 2026 10:20:06 EDT news707125854 Modern computational tools let scientists explore huge numbers of possible molecules, materials and chemical reactions. But testing every combination in the lab is slow and costly. So how do researchers choose the best "recipe" for their experiment? https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-adding-detector-ai-optimize.html Computer Sciences Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:40:03 EDT news707560201 Researchers from the University of Warwick report that how faithfully we can build a "digital twin" of a human brain depends not only on computing power but fundamentally on how much of the living brain we can measure, validate and update over time. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-digital-brain-twins-hinge-brains.html Computer Sciences Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:00:10 EDT news707481721 By combining two complementary clues—camera geometry and visual appearance—researchers at the Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan, developed a new approach for preserving identities across multiple cameras. The method uses epipolar geometry to identify spatially consistent candidate matches and appearance similarity to distinguish among possible identities. The approach can be integrated with existing single-camera tracking systems without requiring environment-specific retraining. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-multiple-cameras-track-person-identity.html Computer Sciences Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:00:05 EDT news707136601 For decades, chess has served as a laboratory for studying intelligence and decision-making. It is well established that today's chess engines can outperform even the strongest grandmasters. But far less is understood about how their play actually differs. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-ai-doesnt-play-chess-complexity.html Computer Sciences Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:20:01 EDT news707055301 Model checking helps automatically verify whether hardware and software systems satisfy specified requirements. It has become an important formal verification technique, but two major challenges remain: state-space explosion, which limits the size of systems that can be checked, and long verification times. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-conquer-approach-advances-reliability-scalable.html Software Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:40:09 EDT news706972921 Next-generation science experiments will collect more data than ever—so much so that they'll surpass the capabilities of current data storage and analysis methods. To help, researchers at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory developed an AI method to compress large amounts of raw data without losing subtle details critical to scientific discovery. They published the work in Nature Machine Intelligence. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-ray-speckles-solar-magnetic-fields.html Computer Sciences Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:40:09 EDT news706803181 AI chatbots powered by large language models (LLMs) are widely used as recommender systems. While accelerating access to information, AI can also give factually incorrect responses or propagate societal biases. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-ai-expert-benchmark-bias-llms.html Computer Sciences Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:00:12 EDT news706801564 Experts have shown that the most powerful security defenses in Windows 11 can be dismantled by an attacker who never touches the target computer. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-bypass-windows-physical-access.html Computer Sciences Mon, 24 Aug 2026 12:40:04 EDT news706793101 In the animal kingdom, energy conservation is essential for survival. That's why our brains have evolved to be extremely energy- and resource-efficient at storing and processing information. Since the 1980s, computational scientists have tried to mimic brain structure and function in the hopes of achieving such efficient, fast processing of complex data. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-fruit-fly-algorithm-odors-samples.html Computer Sciences Mon, 24 Aug 2026 04:00:01 EDT news706535448 The COVID-19 pandemic changed the way many people approached their work across the globe. For Carnegie Mellon University Africa's Jema Ndibwile, it changed the way he viewed a completely different type of virus: a computer virus. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-genetic-algorithms-cybersecurity-defenses-malware.html Computer Sciences Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:00:07 EDT news706531802 McGill University researchers have developed a more energy-efficient method of building AI systems that are better at measuring—and indicating—their own uncertainty. This will help users determine when human oversight is needed, when additional data should be collected and when a model is being asked to work beyond the conditions it was trained for, the researchers said. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-neural-network-approach-ai-uncertainty.html Computer Sciences Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:20:07 EDT news706456861 Researchers from Skoltech (part of the VEB.RF group) and Central University have developed an automated coin-grading approach that minimizes the subjectivity of manual assessments and overcomes the limitations of computer vision algorithms typically used for this purpose. The new approach provides more accurate and detailed grading across a wide variety of coin types. The approach was presented in the Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage and further refined in two subsequent studies published in Expert Systems with Applications and IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-vision-approach-grading-coins.html Engineering Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:40:08 EDT news706289941 From searching disaster zones and responding to chemical spills to monitoring fragile ecosystems, future robot swarms may have to act in places where direct human control is difficult or dangerous. To operate autonomously, the robots must be able to decide together which problem to address and where to go next. But collective decision-making creates its own vulnerability: Robots improve their decisions by sharing information, yet faulty machines, inaccurate observations or manipulated messages can mislead the entire swarm. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-bee-algorithm-robot-swarms-consensus.html Robotics Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:00:05 EDT news706272361 On a sunny summer's day, children build sandcastles on the beach. But behind every castle and crumbling dune lies a surprisingly difficult scientific problem. In fact, the physics of sand is not yet fully understood—which also means that computer graphics lacks effective ways to simulate it. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-spheres-fanged-grains-scientists-unruly.html Computer Sciences Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:20:08 EDT news706263001 Among the many predictions about the future of artificial intelligence is that models will one day be able to conduct scientific research on their own, leaving humans out of the equation. Already, they can write code, run experiments and search scientific literature, but carrying out open-ended research would require a significant leap in ability. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-ai-agents-struggle-scientific.html Computer Sciences Fri, 14 Aug 2026 13:00:03 EDT news705929078 Artificial intelligence is proving to be transformative in its ability to work with language and images. Now, with a growing push to apply AI to scientific discovery, Caltech's Anima Anandkumar says there is a crucial ingredient missing from most AI models: the ability to understand the physical world. Take, for example, weather models, says Anandkumar, Caltech's Bren Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences. If you want an AI model to predict weather, it must understand chaotic physical systems, like how the atmosphere changes around the planet and over time. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-ai-architectures-scientific-problems.html Computer Sciences Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:00:01 EDT news705768961 The trail of likes, shares and downloads we leave across the internet could help predict successful innovations years in advance, Cornell researchers showed by curating two datasets that allowed them to compare early engagement with future impact. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-today-downloads-tomorrow-scientific-impact.html Computer Sciences Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:00:02 EDT news705668341 Artificial intelligence models are jacks of many trades, including writing, generating images, and creating 3D models. But they aren't as helpful when it comes to testing robots or designs for vehicles in diverse environments, since they don't understand physics as well as they do pixels or text. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-physics-ai-simulate-wider-range.html Computer Sciences Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:00:01 EDT news705656882 The multiplication of matrices and higher-dimensional arrays called tensors lies at the heart of modern computing. Matrix or tensor multiplication is, in fact, the most common operation carried out in artificial intelligence applications, as well as in scientific simulations and computer graphics. High-performance computers, especially those equipped with graphics processing units (GPUs), are designed to work with so-called dense matrices or tensors—those that have relatively few zero elements. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-coding-technique-needless-gpu-tasks.html Hardware Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:40:05 EDT news705596761 Why do we breeze through some sentences in a book or article but have to reread others to comprehend their meaning? A team of linguists and data scientists has found a partial answer in AI—some of this processing parallels that of neural-network-based large language models (LLMs). However, other aspects of why we read this way cannot be explained by these technologies, revealing where human and AI language processing diverge and maintaining the mystery of some stages of the reading process. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-labor-words-ai-partial.html Computer Sciences Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:40:10 EDT news705585670 Chipmakers and operating system developers have spent years building defenses. A new study from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) shows that a key assumption behind many of them doesn't hold. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-latest-defenses-built-processor.html Computer Sciences Sun, 09 Aug 2026 07:40:02 EDT news705309959 In recent years, computer scientists have developed a wide range of artificial intelligence (AI) models that can rapidly recognize patterns in data, generate content and solve other computational problems. Many of these AI systems are based on deep neural networks (DNNs), brain-inspired computational models that can make predictions based on specific data, or LLMs, models that can process human language, answer queries and generate text. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-ai-framework-rooted-cognitive-science.html Computer Sciences Sat, 08 Aug 2026 09:40:02 EDT news704472357 Many software tools, including compilers, optimizers and synthesizers, have a common task at their core. They must transform long, complicated programs into simplified equivalents. These scaled-down programs run faster and on a wider range of hardware but must deliver the same results as their original versions. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-optimizing-software-professor-egg-downsizes.html Software Thu, 06 Aug 2026 11:40:24 EDT news705234721 Large language models (LLMs), the computational models that underpin conversational agents such as Gemini and ChatGPT, are now widely used by people worldwide to rapidly find information, summarize documents and generate texts for specific purposes. Some computer scientists are now combining two or more of these models to create multi-agent systems, which prompt multiple artificial intelligence (AI) agents to interact, cooperate and/or compete with the goal of completing specific tasks. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-hidden-goals-undermine-ai-teamwork.html Computer Sciences Thu, 06 Aug 2026 09:10:01 EDT news705224292