Engineering

Nature can help solve optimization problems

Today's best digital computers still struggle to solve, in a practical time frame, a certain class of problem: combinatorial optimization problems, or those that involve combing through large sets of possibilities to find ...

Computer Sciences

Google's researchers explore quantum annealing advantages

Since 2013, Google and NASA have worked on code designed for a quantum machine bought from D-Wave. Google Research Blog said Tuesday that Quantum AI lab researchers report in a new paper that has yet to be peer-reviewed that ...

Software

Modular software for scientific image reconstruction

Scientists use an array of imaging instruments to look inside living organisms, sometimes as they move, and to observe inert objects without altering their state. Such instruments include telescopes, microscopes, CT scanners ...

Energy & Green Tech

Quantum computers can now interface with power grid equipment

With its head-spinning size and connections, the power system is so complex that even supercomputers struggle to efficiently solve certain optimization problems. But quantum computers might fare better, and now researchers ...

Electronics & Semiconductors

Integrated optimal design method of complex electromechanical systems

Integrated optimal design can accelerate the iterative design process of complex systems and enhance their overall performance. Through lumping the mechanical, electrical and control parameters into the feedback gain matrix ...

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