3 Questions: Pinning down a neutrino’s mass
At KATRIN’s heart is a 200-ton, zeppelin-like spectrometer, and scientists hope that with the experiment launching today they can start to collect data that in the next few years wil...
22 years of SOHO
Sunspot cycles are known to occur over about 11 years, but the full cycle is double this length owing to the behaviour of the magnetic fields. At the end of a 22-year cycle, the orie...
Unlocking the promise of approximate computing for on-chip AI acceleration
Although matrix multiplication is dominant, optimizing performance efficiency while maintaining accuracy requires the core architecture to efficiently support all of the auxiliary fu...
The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Dentistry
Now, Artificial Intelligence in dentistry has arrived! Deep learning creates its own rules that improve with additional data, making it well suited to interpret the unstructured data...
SpaceX launches AI robot, strong coffee for station crew
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket’s exhaust plume is illuminated during a launch just before dawn Friday, June 29, 2018 at Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral, Fla. (Malcolm Denemark/Orlando ...
Personalized “deep learning” equips robots for autism therapy
Researchers at the MIT Media Lab have now developed a type of personalized machine learning that helps robots estimate the engagement and interest of each child during these interact...
18 Machine Learning Platforms for Developers
H2O was designed for the Python, R, and Java programming languages by H2O.ai. Image and audio processing libraries are written in the C# programming language and then combined with t...
What should governments be doing about the rise of artificial intelligence?
The single biggest problem in understanding AI however has been making it clear how current AI techniques (like deep learning) differ from human intelligence. Deep learning software ...
What Exactly Is IBM Doing Differently With Machine Learning?
Data science is a team sport, involving data engineers, data scientists, business analysts, application developers, and other personas in the enterprise. Figure 2: Specifying perform...
Top 10 Machine Learning Use Cases (Part 3)
Here in Part 3, we’ll take a look at something a little lighter: the world of media and entertainment. Our first association with machine learning in media and entertainment might be...
Top 10 Machine Learning Use Cases (Part 2)
Here in Part 2, we’ll look beyond the role of ML in oncology and radiology to its influence on mental health, whole-life health, and reducing re-admission rates. Helping Reduce Readm...
Top 10 Machine Learning Use Cases (Part 1)
For instance, we might think of fraud detection as the canonical example of machine learning in the financial sector. In particular, citing the same handy examples might keep us from...
Speedy collision detector could make robots better human assistants
Electrical engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a faster collision detection algorithm that uses machine learning to help robots avoid moving objects an...
Soon, Non-Biological Intelligences Will Populate Our Planet
One way or another, then, we are going to be sharing the planet with a lot of non-biological intelligence. Imagine that we were taking humanity into space in a fleet of giant ships. ...
Secrets of the Big Bang and dark matter
The new particle accelerator experiment Belle II searches for the origin of the universe. Credit: Felix Metzner, KIT At the Japanese Research Center for Particle Physics KEK, the ne...
Rousing masses to fight cancer with open source machine learning
It goes out to cancer fighters and tempts them with a new program that predicts cancer drug effectiveness via machine learning and raw genetic data. Not only the labor but also the f...
Mars valleys traced back to precipitation
Scientists therefore assume that there must have been once enough water on the red planet to feed water streams that incised their path into the soil. A new study now suggests that t...
Gabon’s unique ‘orange crocodiles’ intrigue scientists
Coloured croc: The orange reptiles live in caves in remote southern Gabon The West African state of Gabon is famous for its biodiversity but in a galaxy of spectacular finds, one st...
Autonomous forklift trucks which will work with humans are being developed
The consortium is led by Örebro University in Sweden, and includes University of Lincoln, UK, University of Pisa, Italy, and Leibniz University, Hannover, Germany, working with major...
Artificial Intelligence uncovers anti-aging plant extracts
Life Extension, in collaboration with Insilico Medicine, have employed artificial intelligence to develop a novel dietary supplement of plant extracts that can activate the body’s...
Artificial intelligence aids materials fabrication
A team of researchers at MIT, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and the University of California at Berkeley hope to close that materials-science automation gap, with a new...
And the Most Popular Language for Machine Learning Is…
I searched for skills used in conjunction with machine learning and data science, where skills are one of the prominent programming language Java, C, C++, and JavaScript. Will Julia ...
Alphabet Has Officially Launched Balloons that Deliver Internet In Puerto Rico
Web Balloons Alphabet’s Project Loon has officially launched in Puerto Rico in an effort to bring basic internet connectivity to the island after its infrastructure was ravaged by H...
What Microsoft’s GitHub Deal Promises to Programmers
“GitHub has never been open source. Not all code hosted on GitHub is open source at all,” Maffulli said. Rather, the company sees the GitHub marketplace as a place for it to promote ...
Supercomputers: All Linux, all the time
Every last one is running Linux. That was the first time all of the TOP500 machines were running Linux. For example, the new supercomputing champ Summit is powered by boards running ...