There is a deep connection between planning and inference, and over the last decade, multiple researchers have introduced explicit reductions showing how stochastic planning can be solved using probabilistic inference with ...
Computer Sciences
Nov 30, 2018
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Climate change and those whose job it is to talk about current and future climate impacts are often classed as the "harbingers of doom". For the world's biodiversity, the predictions are grim - loss of species, loss of pollination, ...
Environment
Nov 12, 2018
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Americans in at least seven states voted on ballot initiatives during the 2018 midterm elections. These measures targeted everything from raising targets for the share of electricity drawn from renewable energy to charging ...
Environment
Nov 9, 2018
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A group of Argonne researchers will be studying methods and creating tools for building more resilient mass transit systems to evacuate major cities under a $2.9 million grant announced this week by the U.S. Department of ...
Engineering
Feb 13, 2015
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Federal aviation officials say the air traffic control system around Los Angeles shut down last week because data from the flight plan of a U-2 spy plane confused software that runs the system.
Security
May 6, 2014
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An independent scientific review panel has concluded that the mass stranding of approximately 100 melon-headed whales in the Loza Lagoon system in northwest Madagascar in 2008 was primarily triggered by acoustic stimuli, ...
Ecology
Sep 25, 2013
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A Chinese institute has successfully developed a camera featuring a 100-megapixel charge-coupled device (CCD) chip, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) announced on Wednesday.
Hi Tech & Innovation
Jul 11, 2013
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Land use planning and management now has all the scientific tools required for decisions making. But scientists have yet to have an opportunity to collaborate with local authorities to implement them.
Environment
May 3, 2013
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When Jameson Toole explores the streets of Boston and Cambridge, he sees problems waiting to be solved—and he believes some solutions are already in our pockets.
Computer Sciences
Mar 26, 2013
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Is Australia becoming a nation of renters, and are planners to blame? Newspaper headlines accompanying the release of a new report on housing supply and affordability, by the federal government's independent National Housing ...
Economics & Business
Mar 15, 2013
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