How a stubborn computer scientist accidentally launched the deep learning boom
Hinton moved to the University of Toronto in 1987 and began attracting young researchers who wanted to study neural networks.
Scientists have fiercely debated the existence of ‘Planet 9’ for a decade. Some say evidence is piling up
After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the ...
Wesley Chan on what he looks for as he’s shopping for potential unicorns
Investor Wesley Chan has shown a knack for making very early investments into multi-billion-dollar unicorns, such as Plaid, ...
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NASA's EMIT to Tackle Diverse Science in Extended Mission
NASA's EMIT collected this hyperspectral image of the Amazon River in northern Brazil on June 30 as part of an effort to map global ...
Riverlane Navigates Upstream On Quantum Error Correction
The use of quantum error correction techniques is supposed to help us get out of the Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) ...
New Harvard Discovery Reveals Mars Could Have Supported Life Far Longer Than Thought
Researchers at Harvard's Paleomagnetics Lab have made a compelling case that Mars' magnetic field, which could have supported life, lasted until 3.9 billion years ago—much later than previously ...
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Stroll through history at Caltech for PST Art: L.A. arts and culture this week
I recently grabbed my visiting father and headed to Pasadena to see “Crossing Over: Art and Science at Caltech ... astronomers, computer scientists and mechanical engineers.
Top 5 U.S colleges for Physics and Astronomy, according to QS rankings
A degree in Physics and Astronomy offers students an interdisciplinary education with skills in critical thinking, ...
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Future passenger planes could use AI to eliminate turbulence and maintain a smooth in-flight experience
Turbulence in airplanes could become a thing of the past with FALCON, a new AI system that helps vehicles learn how to adjust ...
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Yihong Wu named the Attwood Professor of Statistics and Data Science
Yihong Wu, whose work lies at the intersection of high-dimensional statistics, information theory, and computer science ... Rutgers, Google, Caltech, Princeton, and other institutions around the world ...
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Publication ranks Florida Poly first in nation for career outcomes among public schools
The recognition placed Florida Poly among such institutions as Cal Tech, Georgetown University and Duke University ... In a separate ranking, Research.com recently named Florida Poly the most popular ...
One year, 41 million digits: How he found the largest known prime number
Former Nvidia programmer Luke Durant used an unusual computer setup to discover a Mersenne prime that is — wait for it — 41 million digits long.