Structure-mapping engine enables computers to reason and learn like humans, including solving moral dilemmas
Northwestern University's Ken Forbus is closing the gap between humans and machines.
Northwestern University's Ken Forbus is closing the gap between humans and machines.
Computer Sciences
Jun 21, 2016
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Rice University researchers have just the thing for the age of information overload: an app that sees all and remembers only what it should.
Computer Sciences
Jun 20, 2016
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They watched, waiting for the instant the test subject smiled. University of Delaware marketing professor Michal Herzenstein and her research assistant knew what a smile meant. It was the "aha!" moment. It meant the subject ...
Economics & Business
Apr 19, 2016
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Researchers have built and demonstrated a novel configurable computing device that uses a thousand times less electrical power – and can be built up to a hundred times smaller – than comparable digital floating-gate configurable ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
Mar 11, 2016
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Therapeutic oligonucleotide analogs represent a new and promising family of drugs that act on nucleic acid targets such as RNA or DNA; however, their effectiveness has been limited due to difficulty crossing the cell membrane. ...
Bio & Medicine
Jan 27, 2015
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Scientists have demonstrated that a 2-D man-made material called a metasurface can perform spatial differentiation and integration, the two main types of calculus problems, when illuminated by a laser beam. Essentially, the ...
Crows have long been heralded for their high intelligence - they can remember faces, use tools and communicate in sophisticated ways.
Plants & Animals
Dec 18, 2014
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Innovative technology developed in Electrical Engineering Professor Peter Kinget's lab is at the core of Seamless Devices, a startup co-founded by Kinget and his former student Jayanth Kuppambatti PhD'14. Seamless Devices ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
Dec 16, 2014
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Nanoelectronics research centre imec will present at this week's VLSI circuits symposium 2014 (Honolulu, June 13) a low power pipelined SAR (successive-approximation register) ADC (analog to digital converter) in 28nm digital ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
Jun 11, 2014
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(Phys.org) —In the field of neuromorphic engineering, researchers study computing techniques that could someday mimic human cognition. Electrical engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology recently published a "roadmap" ...
Computer Sciences
Apr 17, 2014
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