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Organizing Unstructured Data
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Professor Helps Achieve Quantum Computing Breakthrough
Develops theory behind record-setting experiment for most accurate entangling gate ever demonstrated without lasers
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Researchers Develop Tool for Analyzing Large Superconducting Circuits
Method could help push forward the field of quantum computing
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Smart Helmet Rapidly Assesses Stroke Patients
Uses EM waves to distinguish the size, position, and type of stroke
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Using Adversarial Attacks to Refine Molecular Energy Predictions
MIT researchers find new way to quantify the uncertainty in molecular energies predicted by neural networks
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Computer Scientists Create Search Systems to Limit COVID-19 Misinformation
New system increases the correctness and reliability of health-related searches by 80%
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Non-Fungible Tokens and the Future of Art
A new blockchain-based technology is changing how the art world works, and changing how we think about asset ownership in the process.
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Study Shows Potential of DNA-Based Data-Structures Systems
A team led by researchers from Newcastle University created new dynamic DNA data structures that can store and retrieve information in an ordered manner from DNA...
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Stanford Researchers Use AI to Unlock Extreme Weather Mysteries
New machine-learning approach helps scientists understand increased frequency of extreme precipitation days in the Midwest
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Wildfire Simulation Heats Up
Computer simulations can predict the spread of wildfires through sections of a real forest
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AI Learns by Doing More with Less
Sparsity and energy constraints guide learning and communications in silicon neuronal networks
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Humans and Algorithms Struggle to Read Emotions When Faces Are Obscured
Study compares accuracy of humans versus artificial systems in deciphering emotions of people in face masks and sunglasses
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Brain Connectivity Can Build Better AI
Artificial neural networks modeled on real brains can perform cognitive tasks
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AI Knows Where Your Proteins Go
Machine learning able to predict subcellular locations of functionally related proteins
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Novel ASIC Implements Post-Quantum Cryptography
Chip efficiently implements post-quantum cryptography to better protect against future hacker attacks using quantum computers
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How Chemical Reactions Compute
Harvard Professor Juan-Pérez Mercader sees chemical reactions as a kind of computation, and says molecules have enormous potential as tools of computation.
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Predicting the Risk of Schizophrenia Using Machine-Learning and a Blood Test
Innovative strategy analyzes specific regions of CoRSIVs genome to offer possibility of early diagnosis
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Better Security Through Obfuscation
The quest to find greater security through obscurity.
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Economists Know How to Break Your Phone Addiction
The study concludes about a third of social media use are linked to self-control problems and habit formation engendered by our digital technology.
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Formal Software Verification Measures Up
Verified coding techniques use mathematical proofs to ensure code is error-free and hacker-resistant. Can the approach revolutionize software?
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