Computer Sciences
Words categorize the semantic fields they refer to in ways that maximize communication accuracy while minimizing complexity. Recent studies have shown that human languages are optimally balanced between accuracy and complexity. ...
Apr 15, 2021
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Computer Sciences
Artificial neural networks are known to be highly efficient approximators of continuous functions, which are functions with no sudden changes in values (i.e., discontinuities, holes or jumps in graph representations). While ...
Computer Sciences
Researchers have found a way to use chaos to help develop digital fingerprints for electronic devices that may be unique enough to foil even the most sophisticated hackers.
Apr 7, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
The recent power outages in Texas brought attention to its power grid being separated from the rest of the country. While it is not immediately clear whether integration with other parts of the national grid would have completely ...
Apr 2, 2021
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Robotics
Not long after the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, Czech writer Karel Čapek first introduced the term "robot" to describe artificial people in his 1921 sci-fi play R.U.R. While we have not yet created the highly intelligent humanoid ...
Mar 30, 2021
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Engineering
Even minor disruptions in infrastructure systems can have fatal consequences. Researchers and practitioners counter that risk by taking action on multiple levels. Four examples.
Mar 30, 2021
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Computer Sciences
Artificial intelligence is now capable of generating novel, functionally active proteins, thanks to recently published work by researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.
Mar 30, 2021
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Computer Sciences
Explaining, interpreting, and understanding the human mind presents a unique set of challenges. Doing the same for the behaviors of machines, meanwhile, is a whole other story.
Mar 25, 2021
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Robotics
Researchers from the Graduate School of Engineering and Symbiotic Intelligent Systems Research Center at Osaka University used motion capture cameras to compare the expressions of android and human faces. They found that ...
Mar 22, 2021
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Computer Sciences
The classic 1995 crime film The Usual Suspects revolves around the police interrogation of Roger "Verbal" Kint, played by Kevin Spacey. Kint paraphrases Charles Baudelaire, stating that "the greatest trick the Devil ever ...
Mar 17, 2021
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