Theory/Design

A new area in artificial intelligence involves using algorithms to automatically design machine-learning systems known as neural networks, which are more accurate and efficient than those developed by human engineers. But this so-called…

Quantum computers are designed to process information using quantum bits, and promise huge speedups in scientific computing and codebreaking Current prototype devices are publicly accessible but highly error prone: information can…

Two universities have collaborated to open the path to scaling silicon quantum computersCredit: Nyasha Nyakuengama, UNSW Research collaboration between UNSW and the University of Sydney has overcome a fundamental hurdle to building quantum…

NSW government backs Sydney Quantum Academy with $A15.4 million investmentCredit: University of Sydney The NSW Government has announced support for the establishment of a new Sydney Quantum Academy with $A15.4 million in…

Credit: Anna Nilsen Researchers at Linköping University have developed a theoretical model that enables simulations for showing what happens in hard cutting materials as they degrade. The model will enable manufacturing industry to…

Credit: Florida Atlantic University The prevalence of concussions in sports is well known. So, too, is the challenge clinicians and others face when they have to decide when an athlete can return to the game after a head injury. While most…

Researchers demonstrate nanoparticle systems crucial for new high-speed devicesCredit: ©2019 Ohya Laboratory For the first time researchers have demonstrated a new way to perform functions essential to future computation three orders of…

As Benjamin Franklin once joked, death and taxes are universal. Scale-free networks may not be, at least according to a new study from CU Boulder. The research challenges a popular, two-decade-old theory that networks of all kinds, from…

SIGCSE Symposium highlights research that has shaped the field As a capstone to its 50th annual SIGCSE Technical Symposium, leaders of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education…

SFU adjunct professor Luc Beaudoin has created strategies for better sleep and improving memory function. His latest venture tackles another cognitive efficiency of sorts--connecting everything we do online. He has launched a new…