A team of scientists has developed an algorithm that captures our learning abilities, enabling computers to recognize and draw simple visual concepts that are mostly indistinguishable from those created by humans. The work, ...
Computer Sciences
Dec 10, 2015
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Tom Hanks has appeared in many acting roles over the years, playing young and old, smart and simple. Yet we always recognize him as Tom Hanks. Why? Is it his appearance? His mannerisms? The way he moves?
Computer Sciences
Dec 7, 2015
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Anonymity networks, which sit on top of the public Internet, are designed to conceal people's Web-browsing habits from prying eyes. The most popular of these, Tor, has been around for more than a decade and is used by millions ...
Computer Sciences
Dec 7, 2015
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To work with computational models is to work in a world of unknowns: Models that simulate complex physical processes—from Earth's changing climate to the performance of hypersonic combustion engines—are staggeringly complex, ...
Computer Sciences
Nov 16, 2015
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As smartphones become people's primary computers and their primary cameras, there is growing demand for mobile versions of image-processing applications.
Computer Sciences
Nov 13, 2015
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By exploiting the graphics-rendering software that powers sports video games, researchers at MIT and the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) have developed a system that automatically converts 2-D video of soccer games ...
Computer Sciences
Nov 4, 2015
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Optimization problems are everywhere in engineering: Balancing design tradeoffs is an optimization problem, as are scheduling and logistical planning. The theory—and sometimes the implementation—of control systems relies ...
Computer Sciences
Oct 23, 2015
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Big-data analysis consists of searching for buried patterns that have some kind of predictive power. But choosing which "features" of the data to analyze usually requires some human intuition. In a database containing, say, ...
Computer Sciences
Oct 16, 2015
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Every language has its own collection of phonemes, or the basic phonetic units from which spoken words are composed. Depending on how you count, English has somewhere between 35 and 45. Knowing a language's phonemes can make ...
Computer Sciences
Sep 14, 2015
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In a modern, multicore chip, every core—or processor—has its own small memory cache, where it stores frequently used data. But the chip also has a larger, shared cache, which all the cores can access.
Computer Sciences
Sep 10, 2015
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