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Artificial Antimicrobial Peptides Could Help Overcome Drug-Resistant Bacteria
A new streamlined approach to developing antimicrobial peptide drugs uses a computer algorithm that mimics natural evolution.
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Computer Searches Telescope Data for Evidence of Distant Planets
Researchers have trained a machine learning system to search for debris disks around stars using telescopic data.
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'Body on a Chip' Could Improve Drug Evaluation
A microfluidic platform links engineered tissues from multiple human organs to replicate organ-drug interactions so medications' effects on different parts of the...
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Robo-Picker Grasps and Grabs
A new "pick-and-place" robot features a standard industrial robotic arm equipped with a custom gripper and suction cup.
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Engineers Design Artificial Synapse For 'brain-on-a-Chip' Hardware
When it comes to processing power, the human brain just can't be beat.
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Can Computers Help S Synthesize New Materials?
Following their proposal of a neural network-based artificial intelligence system that sifts through scientific papers and finds "recipes" for specific types of...
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Reading a Neural Network's Mind
Researchers at MIT CSAIL and the Qatar Computing Research Institute have used an interpretive method to analyze neural networks trained for machine translation...
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sing Artificial Intelligence to Improve Early Breast Cancer Detection
Researchers are working to apply artificial intelligence to improving the detection and diagnosis of breast cancer.
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New AI Algorithm Monitors Sleep With Radio Waves
A new sleep monitoring system uses an algorithm to analyze radio signals around subjects and translate those measurements into sleep stages.
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Watch 3-D Movies at Home, Sans Glasses
"Home3D" allows users to watch three-dimensional movies without wearing special glasses.
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New System Allows Optical 'deep Learning'
Researchers have developed a new approach to deep-learning computer systems that uses light instead of electricity.
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Mapping the Edge of Reality
Researchers have developed a genetic algorithm to confirm the rejection of classical ideas of causality.
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Explained: Neural Networks
Deep learning is a new name for the neural-networking approach to artificial intelligence.
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Creating Videos of the Future
Researchers have developed a deep-learning algorithm that can take a still image of a scene and model a video simulating the future of that scene.
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Artificial-Intelligence System Surfs Web to Improve Its Performance
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers say they have developed a new approach to information extraction that inverts conventional machine learning.
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Driverless-Vehicle Options Now Include Scooters
Researchers have developed an autonomous mobility scooter using the same sensor configuration and software used in previous trials of autonomous cars and golf carts...
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Making Computers Explain Themselves
Researchers have developed a method for training neural networks so they provide not only predictions and classifications, but also rationales for their decisions...
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Automated Screening For Childhood Communication Disorders
Researchers have used machine learning to develop a computer system that can automatically screen young children for speech and language disorders.
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Robotic Consensus
Planning algorithms for teams of robots fall into two categories: centralized algorithms, in which a single computer makes decisions for the whole team, and decentralized...
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