News tagged with probabilistic design

Scientists develop revolutionary microchip that uses 30 times less energy

Leaving your mobile phone charger at home when you go for a two week long vacation may just be the norm one day as scientists from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Rice University, United States, have successfully ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 09, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (18) | comments 4




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Scientists design indoor navigation system for blind

University of Nevada, Reno computer science engineering team Kostas Bekris and Eelke Folmer presented their indoor navigation system for people with visual impairments at two national conferences in the past ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cloudy with a chance of pirates

Imagine being tasked with finding a nondescript gray car being driven somewhere in the United States. And imagine that your primary tools for finding that car are a few aircraft and a handful of vehicles of your own. 

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A new scheme for photonic quantum computing

The concepts of quantum technology promise to achieve more powerful information processing than is possible with even the best possible classical computers. To actually build efficient quantum computers remains ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Oct 13, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 2

All-optical quantum computation, step 1: A controlled-NOT photonic gate

(PhysOrg.com) -- The often counterintuitive quantum world of superposition, entanglement, and tunneling can greatly enhance applications as diverse as communication, information processing, and precision measurement. ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jun 24, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast feature

Interview: Dr. Ben Goertzel on Artificial General Intelligence, Transhumanism and Open Source (Part 2/2)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dr. Ben Goertzel is Chairman of Humanity+; CEO of AI software company Novamente LLC and bioinformatics company Biomind LLC; leader of the open-source OpenCog Artificial General Intelligence ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Jun 13, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 52 | with audio podcast feature

Single atom stores quantum information

(PhysOrg.com) -- A data memory can hardly be any smaller: researchers working with Gerhard Rempe at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching have stored quantum information in a single atom. ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created May 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

One fish, two fish ... reef fish

Marine biologists have solved a conundrum that has stumped them for years – how to count reef fish. It may sound simple, but the task is actually complex and critical in helping to evaluate the state ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 21, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Dueling algorithms

There's an old joke about two hikers on a trail, one wearing hiking boots and the other running shoes. "Why the running shoes?” the first hiker asks. "In case of bears,” the second answers. The first ...

Technology / Software

created Mar 18, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

'Pruned' microchips are faster, smaller, more energy-efficient

An international team of computing experts from the United States, Switzerland and Singapore has created a breakthrough technique for doubling the efficiency of computer chips simply by trimming away the portions that are ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 16, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Fruit fly nervous system provides new solution to fundamental computer network problem

(PhysOrg.com) -- The fruit fly has evolved a method for arranging the tiny, hair-like structures it uses to feel and hear the world that's so efficient a team of scientists in Israel and at Carnegie Mellon ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jan 13, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (14) | comments 2 | with audio podcast


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