Theory/Design

Model tags road features based on satellite images, to improve GPS navigation in places with limited map data A model invented by researchers at MIT and Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) that uses satellite imagery to tag road…

New ACM open publishing model promises to accelerate ACM's transition to full open accessCredit: ACM ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, entered into transformative open access agreements with several of its largest…

Credit: Christopher Tison and Michael Fanto/Air Force Research Laboratory. A team from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has conducted a series of experiments to gain a better understanding of quantum mechanics…

'Easypass' would enable smart warehouses, automated factories and more to operate without delaysCredit: University of Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH (Jan 22, 2020) -- The internet of things (IoT) widely spans from the smart speakers and…

Premier conference in exciting and fast-growing research area Premier Conference in Exciting and Fast-Growing Research Area to Feature Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in Socio-technical Systems New York, NY, January 21,…

Tokyo, Japan - Researchers at the University of Tokyo and Kozo Keikaku Engineering Inc. have introduced a method for enhancing the power of existing algorithms to forecast the future of unknown time series. By combining the predictions of…

Writing in Nature, researchers describe the first-time observation of 'self-organized criticality' in a controlled laboratory experiment. Complex systems exist in mathematics and physics, but also occur in nature and society. The concept…

A research group at Aarhus University has used the AlphaZero algorithm to control a quantum computer. The chess world was amazed when the computer algorithm AlphaZero learned, after just four hours on its own, to beat the best chess…

In a time of aging infrastructure and increasingly smart control of buildings, the ability to predict how buildings use energy--and how much energy they use--has remained elusive, until now. Researchers from Saudi Arabia, China and the…

Robots are becoming an increasingly important part of human care, according to researchers based in Japan. To help improve the safety and efficacy of robotic care, the scientists have developed a control method that could help robots…