Computer Sciences
We live in the information age, you might say. More than 2.5 quintillion bytes (1 million terabytes) of data are generated around the globe every day. Managing that data is impossible and yet we make use of huge chunks of ...
May 18, 2022
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Telecom
Quantum technology, which makes use of the surprising and often counterintuitive properties of the subatomic universe, is revolutionizing the way information is gathered, stored, shared and analyzed.
Mar 29, 2022
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Computer Sciences
The team at DeepMind has tested the programming skills of its AI programming tool AlphaCode against human programmer competitors and has found it tested in the top 54 percent of human coders. In their preprint article, the ...
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
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Computer Sciences
Time crystals. Microwaves. Diamonds. What do these three disparate things have in common?
Jan 24, 2022
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Robotics
Tetraplegic patients are prisoners of their own bodies, unable to speak or perform the slightest movement. Researchers have been working for years to develop systems that can help these patients carry out some tasks on their ...
Dec 16, 2021
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Computer Sciences
Computer vision systems sometimes make inferences about a scene that fly in the face of common sense. For example, if a robot were processing a scene of a dinner table, it might completely ignore a bowl that is visible to ...
Dec 8, 2021
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Machine learning & AI
Researchers are developing a deep learning network capable of detecting disease biomarkers with a much higher degree of accuracy.
Oct 28, 2021
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Consumer & Gadgets
There are numerous malware detection and antivirus apps for mobile devices running the Android operating system. However, a team in China introduces a new approach that can detect malicious activity at the source code level. ...
Jul 23, 2021
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Consumer & Gadgets
"How does that make you feel?"
Feb 15, 2021
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Computer programs (also software programs, or just programs) are instructions for a computer. A computer requires programs to function, typically executing the program's instructions in a central processor. The program has an executable form that the computer can use directly to execute the instructions. The same program in its human-readable source code form, from which executable programs are derived (e.g., compiled), enables a programmer to study and develop the algorithm.
Computer source code is often written by professional computer programmers. Source code is written in a programming language that usually follows one of two main paradigms: imperative or declarative programming. Source code may be converted into an executable file (sometimes called an executable program or a binary) by a compiler. Alternatively, computer programs may be executed by a central processing unit with the aid of an interpreter, or may be embedded directly into hardware (in which case it is more widely known under the term 'firmware', as something 'between' software and hardware).
Computer programs may be categorized along functional lines: system software and application software. And many computer programs may run simultaneously on a single computer, a process known as multitasking.
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