Can a computer write a sonnet as well as Shakespeare?
AI or not AI: that is the question.
Aug 8, 2018
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Research identifies key weakness in modern computer vision systems
Computer vision algorithms have come a long way in the past decade. They've been shown to be as good or better than people at tasks like categorizing dog or cat breeds, and they have the remarkable ability to identify specific ...
Jul 30, 2018
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A game changer: Metagenomic clustering powered by supercomputers
Did you know that the tools used for analyzing relationships between social network users or ranking web pages can also be extremely valuable for making sense of big science data? On a social network like Facebook, each user ...
Mar 12, 2018
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Algorithms that can sketch, recreate 3-D shapes
A University of British Columbia computer scientist has created a new software that can create a design sketch of an everyday object, addressing the challenge of accurately describing shapes.
Aug 1, 2017
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Breakthrough software teaches computer characters to walk, run, even play soccer
Computer characters and eventually robots could learn complex motor skills like walking and running through trial and error, thanks to a milestone algorithm developed by a University of British Columbia researcher.
Jul 31, 2017
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Using deep learning to get computers to recognize beautiful places
(TechXplore)—A trio of researchers with the University of Warwick in the U.K. has used a deep learning algorithm to help a computer system better understand what constitutes a beautiful place. In their paper published in ...
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Preserving variety in subsets of unmanageably large data sets to aid machine learning
When data sets get too big, sometimes the only way to do anything useful with them is to extract much smaller subsets and analyze those instead.
Dec 16, 2016
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Will superfast 'quantum' computers mean the end of unbreakable encryption?
There is a computing revolution coming, although nobody knows exactly when. What are known as "quantum computers" will be substantially more powerful than the devices we use today, capable of performing many types of computation ...
Aug 25, 2016
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Programmable network routers provide more flexible traffic management without sacrificing speed
Like all data networks, the networks that connect servers in giant server farms, or servers and workstations in large organizations, are prone to congestion. When network traffic is heavy, packets of data can get backed up ...
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Software engineer announces experiment with post-quantum cryptography in Chrome
(Tech Xplore)—There are conventional computers and then there is another kind—quantum computers, different, designed to leverage aspects of quantum physics to solve certain sorts of problems dramatically faster than ...
Algorithm
In mathematics, computing, linguistics, and related subjects, an algorithm is a finite sequence of instructions, an explicit, step-by-step procedure for solving a problem, often used for calculation and data processing. It is formally a type of effective method in which a list of well-defined instructions for completing a task, will when given an initial state, proceed through a well-defined series of successive states, eventually terminating in an end-state. The transition from one state to the next is not necessarily deterministic; some algorithms, known as probabilistic algorithms, incorporate randomness.
A partial formalization of the concept began with attempts to solve the Entscheidungsproblem (the "decision problem") posed by David Hilbert in 1928. Subsequent formalizations were framed as attempts to define "effective calculability" (Kleene 1943:274) or "effective method" (Rosser 1939:225); those formalizations included the Gödel-Herbrand-Kleene recursive functions of 1930, 1934 and 1935, Alonzo Church's lambda calculus of 1936, Emil Post's "Formulation 1" of 1936, and Alan Turing's Turing machines of 1936–7 and 1939.
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