Computer Sciences
When machine-learning models are deployed in real-world situations, perhaps to flag potential disease in X-rays for a radiologist to review, human users need to know when to trust the model's predictions.
May 31, 2023
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Computer Sciences
Rice University statistician Genevera Allen says scientists must keep questioning the accuracy and reproducibility of scientific discoveries made by machine-learning techniques until researchers develop new computational ...
Feb 15, 2019
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Computer Sciences
You're in an autonomous car when a rabbit suddenly hops onto the road in front of you.
Jun 7, 2023
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Computer Sciences
From a pair of simple principles of evolution—chance mutation and natural selection—nature has constructed an almost unfathomable richness of life around us. Despite our scientific sophistication, human design and engineering ...
Jan 19, 2021
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Computer Sciences
A savvy hacker can obtain secret information, such as a password, by observing a computer program's behavior, like how much time that program spends accessing the computer's memory.
Jun 28, 2023
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Computer Sciences
The cow goes "moo." The pig goes "oink." A child can learn from a picture book to associate images with sounds, but building a computer vision system that can train itself isn't as simple. Using artificial intelligence techniques, ...
Nov 15, 2016
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Energy & Green Tech
Imagine more efficient internal combustion engines with lower emissions, sparked by computer simulation. Scientists across the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have recently joined forces to conduct ...
Jul 17, 2020
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Engineering
The Green IC research team at the National University of Singapore has developed an innovative technique that allows the transfer of bits (the basic unit of information in computing) across a silicon chip up to five times ...
Jun 11, 2020
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Automotive
A new study finds that "connected" vehicles, which share data with each other wirelessly, significantly improve travel time through intersections—but automated vehicles can actually slow down travel time through intersections ...
Aug 14, 2023
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Robotics
There are many real-world—and, someday, off-world—applications for light-weight, energy-efficient, fully autonomous robots. Yet the more autonomous a robot is, the greater its computational requirements. Onboarding the ...
Sep 15, 2020
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