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Machine Learning to Help Optimize Traffic and Reduce Pollution
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Machine Learning to Help Optimize Traffic and Reduce Pollution

Scientists at Berkeley Lab, in collaboration with UC Berkeley, are using deep reinforcement learning to smooth traffic flow, reduce energy consumption, and improve...

What Does a Crooked Election Look Like?
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What Does a Crooked Election Look Like?

For voters around the world, including the millions of Americans who will cast ballots in the midterms up to and on November 6, an election is democracy in action—an...

Prepping for a Flood of Heavenly Bodies
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Prepping for a Flood of Heavenly Bodies

This is a story of getting the good out of the bad, said Mario Jurić.

Baidu's AI Can Do Simultaneous Translation Between Any Two Languages
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Baidu's AI Can Do Simultaneous Translation Between Any Two Languages

Would-be travelers of the galaxy, rejoice: The Chinese tech giant Baidu has invented a translation system that brings us one step closer to a software Babel fish...

How We Saved the Deep Space 1 Spacecraft
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How We Saved the Deep Space 1 Spacecraft

On Sept. 22, 2001, about 50 people huddled around computer monitors in a control room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, some more anxious...

Quantum Research Gets A Boost at Sandia, Los Alamos Labs
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Quantum Research Gets A Boost at Sandia, Los Alamos Labs

An $8 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy will enable scientists at Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories to build advanced tools for nanotechnology...

Water to Cool High-Performance Computing System Cut in Half
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Water to Cool High-Performance Computing System Cut in Half

Sandia engineer David J. Martinez was recognized for his contributions to a cooling system that helps halve the amount of water used to cool a high-performance...

Why the Search for Aliens Could ­nite ­s Here on Earth
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Why the Search for Aliens Could ­nite ­s Here on Earth

If aliens are trying to talk to us (or even if they are not), Jill Tarter will be the one to find them.

Shaken by Hype, Self-Driving Leaders Adopt New Strategy: Shutting ­p
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Shaken by Hype, Self-Driving Leaders Adopt New Strategy: Shutting ­p

Three former executives at Google, Tesla and Uber who once raced to be the first to develop self-driving cars have adopted a new strategy: Slow down. And shut up...

Scientists to Debate Landing Site for Next Mars Rover
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Scientists to Debate Landing Site for Next Mars Rover

Hundreds of scientists and Mars-exploration enthusiasts will convene in a hotel ballroom just north of Los Angeles later this week to present, discuss and deliberate...

Any Way the Wind Blows
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Any Way the Wind Blows

Argonne researchers recently participated in a project to build numerical models that account for complex wind patterns in complex terrain to improve short-term...

The 50 Most Influential Living Computer Scientists
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The 50 Most Influential Living Computer Scientists

TheBestSchools.org compiled a list of 50 mathematicians, logicians, and computer scientists who did most of the scientific spadework that laid the foundations for...

Reusable Software for High Performance Computing
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Reusable Software for High Performance Computing

Sunita Chandrasekaran of the University of Delaware has received an NSF grant to create a powerful software framework that can adapt scientific code to current...

Jeff Hawkins Is Finally Ready to Explain His Brain Research
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Jeff Hawkins Is Finally Ready to Explain His Brain Research


Graduate Student Solves Quantum Verification Problem
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Graduate Student Solves Quantum Verification Problem

Urmila Mahadev spent eight years in graduate school solving one of the most basic questions in quantum computation: How do you know whether a quantum computer has...

AIs Invent Weird New Limbs to Beat Virtual Obstacle Courses
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AIs Invent Weird New Limbs to Beat Virtual Obstacle Courses

What are the best two legs for running an obstacle course? One leg that crawls at the knee joint, and one massive leg dragged behind for stability like a kangaroo's...

China's Huawei Takes Aim at Qualcomm, Nvidia With New AI Chips
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China's Huawei Takes Aim at Qualcomm, Nvidia With New AI Chips

Huawei Technologies Co. has overtaken Apple Inc. in smartphones. Now it wants to take on some of America's largest technology companies in semiconductors.

Painting Cars for Mars
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Painting Cars for Mars

When John Campanella's friend wanted his beloved Ferrari painted, he knew exactly who to call.

Team Breaks Exaop Barrier With Deep Learning Application
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Team Breaks Exaop Barrier With Deep Learning Application

A team of Berkeley Lab and ORNL computational scientists and Nvidia engineers has demonstrated an exascale-class deep learning application that has broken the exaop...

Research Could Lead to More Energy-Efficient Computing
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Research Could Lead to More Energy-Efficient Computing

Research at Binghamton University could lead to more inexpensive, energy-efficient, and high-density neuristor circuits, accelerating the path to more energy efficient...
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