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Model Helps Identify Mutations That Drive Cancer
Researchers created a probabilistic computer model that rapidly scans the genome of cancer cells to identify cancer-driving mutations.
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Engineers Build LEGO-Like AI Chip
An international team of researchers has developed an artificial intelligence chip that is stackable and reconfigurable, similar to LEGO bricks.
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Stronger Security for Smart Devices
Two new security techniques block power and electromagnetic side-channel attacks targeting analog-to-digital converters in smart devices.
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Predicting Others' Behavior on the Road With Artificial Intelligence
A new machine learning system may someday help driverless cars predict the next moves of nearby drivers, pedestrians, and cyclists in real-time.
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Engineers Use AI to Capture Complexity of Breaking Waves
An international research team lleveraged machine learning to model how waves break, which could help improve the design of offshore structures and climate prediction...
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Does This AI Think Like a Human?
Scientists have developed the Shared Interest method for rapidly analyzing a machine learning model's behavior by evaluating its individual explanations.
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Solving the Challenges of Robotic Pizza-Making
Researchers have created an architecture for a robotic manipulation system that could teach robots to handle pizza dough.
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AI System Rapidly Predicts How Two Proteins Will Attach
An artificial intelligence model can forecast the binding configuration of two proteins.
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A New Language for Quantum Computing
Twist is an MIT-developed programming language that can describe and verify which pieces of data are entangled to prevent bugs in a quantum program.
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ML Flags Remedies That Might Do More Harm Than Good
Scientists designed a machine learning model to identify medical treatments that could pose greater potential danger than alternatives.
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Tiny ML Design Alleviates Bottleneck in Memory Usage on IoT Devices
Researchers come up with a machine learning method to reduce the amount of memory required for Internet of Things devices.
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Machines That See the World More Like Humans Do
The 3D Scene Perception via Probabilistic Programming system helps machines perceive the world in a more human-like manner.
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Artificial Networks Learn to Smell Like the Brain
A machine learning model can train itself to smell by building an artificial neural network that mimics the brain's odor-processing olfactory circuits.
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Universal System Decodes Any Type of Data Sent Across a Network
Scientists have programmed a universal algorithm to enable a silicon chip to decode any data transmitted across a network, irrespective of structure.
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Using Adversarial Attacks to Refine Molecular Energy Predictions
MIT researchers find new way to quantify the uncertainty in molecular energies predicted by neural networks
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Inflatable Robotic Hand Gives Amputees Real-Time Tactile Control
Engineers have constructed an inflatable neuroprosthetic hand that restored rudimentary sensation to an amputee's residual limb.
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Machine Learning Discovers Sequences to Boost Drug Delivery
Researchers have developed an approach that uses experimental chemistry and artificial intelligence to facilitate delivery of a drug to treat Duchenne muscular...
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System Trains Drones to Fly Around Obstacles at High Speeds
New algorithm could enable fast, nimble drones for time-critical operations such as search and rescue
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Clearing the Way Toward Robust Quantum Computing
A technique developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology removes common errors in the operation of a two-quantum bit (qubit).
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