Artificial Intelligence Helps Understand the Evolution of Young Stars and Their Planets
University of Chicago scientists teach a neural net to find baby star flares. Like its human counterparts, a young star is cute but prone to…
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What to Expect When You’re Expecting Robots: The Future of Human-Robot Collaboration
Book co-authored by MIT Associate Professor Julie Shah and Laura Major SM ’05 explores a future populated with robot helpers. As Covid-19 has made it…
Good Vibrations for New Energy: Nanogenerator “Scavenges” Power From Surroundings
Imagine a mobile phone charger that doesn’t need a wireless or main power source. Or a pacemaker with inbuilt organic energy sources within the human…
MIT Using Artificial Intelligence to Translate Ancient “Dead” Languages
System developed at MIT CSAIL aims to help linguists decipher languages that have been lost to history. Recent research suggests that most languages that have…
Going Beyond Human Brains: Deep Learning Takes On Synthetic Biology
DNA and RNA have been compared to “instruction manuals” containing the information needed for living “machines” to operate. But while electronic machines like computers and…
Milestone for Planetary Scientists As AI Helps Discover Fresh Craters on Mars
It’s the first time machine learning has been used to find previously unknown craters on the Red Planet. Sometime between March 2010 and May 2012,…
This Computer Predicts Your Thoughts, Creating Images Based on Your Brain Signals
By monitoring brain function, computers can be made imagine what a person is thinking of and present the results as images. The technique can be…
COVID-19 Pandemic Spawns “Infodemic” in Scientific Literature
New policies, technologies could help make sense of flood of information. The science community has responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with such a flurry of…
Bursting Earth’s Bubble: Artificial Intelligence Helps Find Magnetic Eruptions in Space
An alert pops up in your email: The latest spacecraft observations are ready. You now have 24 hours to scour 84 hours-worth of data, selecting…
Brain-Inspired Electronic System Could Make Artificial Intelligence 1,000 Times More Energy Efficient
Extremely energy-efficient artificial intelligence is now closer to reality after a study by UCL researchers found a way to improve the accuracy of a brain-inspired…
NASA Using Machine-Learning AI to Predict Hurricane Intensity
NASA research could help to improve forecasts of whether a hurricane will suddenly intensify, which could give people in its path more time to prepare….
NSF Announces MIT-Led Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions
IAIFI will advance physics knowledge — from the smallest building blocks of nature to the largest structures in the universe — and galvanize AI research…
50 New Planets Confirmed in Machine Learning First – AI Distinguishes Between Real and “Fake” Planets
New machine learning algorithm designed by astronomers and computer scientists from University of Warwick confirms new exoplanets in telescope data Sky surveys find thousands of…
Artificial Intelligence Identifies 80,000 Spiral Galaxies – Promises More Astronomical Discoveries in the Future
Astronomers have applied artificial intelligence (AI) to ultra-wide field-of-view images of the distant Universe captured by the Subaru Telescope, and have achieved a very high…
Scientists Built a Simulated Sea Slug – It Quickly Became Addicted to an Intoxicating Drug
Scientists built a computer model of a simple brain network based on that of a sea slug, taught it how to get food, gave it…
A New Software Tool – Fawkes – Cloaks Your Images to Trick Facial Recognition Algorithms
A new tool to protect yourself against facial recognition software designed by University of Chicago researchers. The rapid rise of facial recognition systems has placed…
New “Cyborg” Technology Could Enable Merger of Humans and AI
Although true “cyborgs” — part human, part robotic beings — are science fiction, researchers are taking steps toward integrating electronics with the body. Such devices…
How Computer Science and AI Can Help Fight COVID-19 — “We Have the Potential to Alter the Course of This Global Pandemic”
University of Chicago researchers launch projects exploring health disparities, machine learning. The COVID-19 pandemic has mobilized the world’s scientific community like no other recent crisis,…