Engineering
For all the improvements in computer technology over the years, we still struggle to recreate the low-energy, elegant processing of the human brain. Now, researchers at Stanford University and Sandia National Laboratories ...
Feb 21, 2017
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Robotics
Engineers at the University of Waterloo have discovered a new way to program robots to help people with dementia locate medicine, glasses, phones and other objects they need but have lost.
May 15, 2023
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Computer Sciences
Achieving diversity in human vision is one of the major challenges for AI research. In the vast majority of cases, we are better than machines at understanding the world around us. But machines are catching up—slowly but ...
Oct 22, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) developed a breakthrough in energy-efficient phototransistors. Such devices could eventually help computers process visual information ...
May 4, 2021
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Hi Tech & Innovation
There's an urgent need to support citizens with a system of digital self-defense, argues a neuroscience expert from Rice University's Baker Institute of Public Policy.
Jul 24, 2023
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Computer Sciences
Let a million monkeys clack on a million typewriters for a million years and, the adage goes, they'll reproduce the works of Shakespeare. Give infinite monkeys infinite time, and they still will not appreciate the bard's ...
Sep 27, 2022
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Engineering
Many internal components used in today's computers reach temperatures that are hot enough to cook a Thanksgiving meal. The heat produced by the computations can easily burn human skin and tissue – and much of the heat is ...
Mar 29, 2019
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Computer Sciences
Researchers have proposed a novel AI system inspired by the neuromodulation of the brain, referred to as a "stashing system," that requires less energy consumption. The research group led by Professor Kyung Min Kim from the ...
May 18, 2022
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Computer Sciences
With over 86 billion neurons, each having the ability to form up to 10,000 synapses with other neurons, the human brain gives rise to an exceptionally complex network of connections that underlie the proliferation of intelligence.
Jul 26, 2023
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Machine learning & AI
Artificial and machine intelligence are changing the way we live more and more each day. Manufacturing robots, self-driving cars, and virtual travel booking agents are just a few examples of how these technologies have permeated ...
Oct 21, 2022
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