Judea Pearl's passionate advocacy of the importance of probability and causality helped revolutionize artificial intelligence.
Neil Savage
Automating Scientific Discovery
Computer scientists are teaching machines to run experiments, make inferences from the data, and use the results to conduct new experiments.
Online games are harnessing humans' skills to solve scientific problems that are currently beyond the ability of computers.
Better Medicine Through Machine Learning
Computers that tease out patterns from clinical data could improve patient diagnosis and care.
Salvatore Torquato’s unique space-packing method has implications in information theory and materials science.
Developing an IT ecosystem for health could improve — and transform — the practice of medicine.
Quantum Computing Claims Produce Uncertainty
A Canadian company developing a quantum computer made news in May when it sold a system to defense manufacturer Lockheed-Martin for $10 million, though skeptics question…
Teaching computers to understand pictures could lead to search engines capable of identifying and organizing large datasets of visual information.
Finding Experts: It’s Who You Know
While current expert-finding methods provided the best expert in six out of 10 searches, a new user-oriented method finds the best one nine times out of 10, according to…
Researchers are mining Twitter's vast flow of data to measure public sentiment, follow political activity, and detect earthquakes and flu outbreaks.
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