Computer Sciences
Soon, internet users will be able to meet each other in cyberspace as animated 3D avatars. Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed new algorithms for creating virtual humans much more easily.
Jan 25, 2022
0
140
Robotics
If you've ever ordered a product from Amazon, chances are that a robot selected your purchase from a shelf, read the barcode and delivered it to the counter for packaging. Hopefully, it didn't collide with a human worker ...
Jan 10, 2022
0
168
Computer Sciences
In 2020, as a result of COVID-19 restrictions on students sitting exams in person, the United Kingdom's school exam regulator, Ofqual, used an algorithm to determine their final year grades.
Nov 24, 2021
0
27
Computer Sciences
A group of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory has developed computational quantum algorithms that are capable of efficient and highly accurate simulations of static and dynamic properties of quantum ...
Nov 10, 2021
0
283
Computer Sciences
One of the challenges in the era of Big Data is dealing with many independent variables, also known as the "curse of dimensionality." Therefore, there is an urgent need to develop algorithms that can select subsets of features ...
Sep 23, 2021
0
7
Computer Sciences
Algorithms are sort of like a parent to a computer. They tell the computer how to make sense of information so they can, in turn, make something useful out of it.
Sep 21, 2021
0
104
Robotics
To train robots how to work independently but cooperatively, researchers at the University of Cincinnati gave them a relatable task: Move a couch.
Aug 24, 2021
0
480
Robotics
Roboticists worldwide have been trying to develop autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that could be deployed during search and rescue missions or that could be used to map geographical areas and for source-seeking. ...
Computer Sciences
Is it easier to check that a solution to a problem is correct than it is to solve the problem?
Aug 12, 2021
0
390
Energy & Green Tech
An elegant new algorithm developed by Danish researchers can significantly reduce the resource consumption of the world's computer servers. Computer servers are as taxing on the climate as global air traffic combined, thereby ...
Jul 6, 2021
0
242
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.
This text uses material from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA
