Computer Science News

December 6, 2023

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2D Material Reshapes 3D Electronics for AI Hardware

Nov. 30, 2023 — Researchers demonstrated monolithic 3D integration of layered 2D material into novel processing hardware for artificial intelligence computing. The new approach provides a material-level solution for fully integrating many functions into a single, ...

Straining Memory Leads to New Computing Possibilities

Nov. 30, 2023 — A team of researchers developed a new form of computing memory that is fast, dense, and low-power by strategically straining materials that are as thin as a single layer of ...

Quantum Tool Opens Door to Uncharted Phenomena

Nov. 29, 2023 — Scientists have developed a new tool for the measurement of entanglement in many-body systems and demonstrated it in experiments. The method enables the study of previously inaccessible physical phenomena and could contribute to a better ...

Nextgen Computing: Hard-to-Move Quasiparticles Glide Up Pyramid Edges

Nov. 28, 2023 — A new kind of 'wire' for moving excitons could help enable a new class of devices, perhaps including room temperature quantum ...

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Unlocking the Secrets of Cells, With AI

Nov. 28, 2023 — Researchers have developed a new program that provides a more accurate understanding of the peptide sequences in cells. The researchers use machine learning to help analyze the makeup of unfamiliar ...

Researchers Engineer a Material That Can Perform Different Tasks Depending on Temperature

Nov. 28, 2023 — Researchers report that they have developed a new composite material designed to change behaviors depending on temperature in order to perform ...

Defending Your Voice Against Deepfakes

Nov. 27, 2023 — Computer scientists have developed AntiFake, a tool to protect voice recordings from unauthorized speech ...

Measuring Long-Term Heart Stress Dynamics With Smartwatch Data

Nov. 27, 2023 — Biomedical engineers have developed a method using data from wearable devices such as smartwatches to digitally mimic an entire week's worth of an individual's heartbeats. The new 'digital twins' ...

Immersive Engagement in Mixed Reality Can Be Measured With Reaction Time

Nov. 27, 2023 — In the real world/digital world cross-over of mixed reality, a user's immersive engagement with the program is called presence. Now, researchers have identified reaction time as a potential presence ...

How Heat Can Be Used in Computing

Nov. 27, 2023 — Physicists have demonstrated that, combining specific materials, heat in technical devices can be used in computing. Their discovery is based on extensive calculations and simulations. The new ...

Hybrid Transistors Set Stage for Integration of Biology and Microelectronics

Nov. 22, 2023 — Researchers create transistors combining silicon with biological silk, using common microprocessor manufacturing methods. The silk protein can be ...

Medical AI Tool Gets Human Thumbs-Up

Nov. 21, 2023 — A new artificial intelligence computer program can generate doctors' notes so well that two physicians couldn't tell the difference, according to an early study from both ...

Breakthrough in Tackling Increasing Demand by 'Internet of Things' on Mobile Networks

Nov. 20, 2023 — A novel technology to manage demands on mobile networks from multiple users using Terahertz frequencies has been developed by computer ...

How We Play Together

Nov. 21, 2023 — Psychologists are using EEG to research what games reveal about our ability to ...

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Diamonds and Rust Help Unveil 'Impossible' Quasi-Particles

Dec. 5, 2023 — Researchers have discovered magnetic monopoles -- isolated magnetic charges -- in a material closely related to rust, a result that could be used to power greener and faster computing ...

New Computer Code for Mechanics of Tissues and Cells in Three Dimensions

Nov. 20, 2023 — Biological materials are made of individual components, including tiny motors that convert fuel into motion. This creates patterns of movement, and the material shapes itself with coherent flows by ...

Future of Brain-Inspired AI as Python Code Library Passes Major Milestone

Nov. 17, 2023 — An open source code library for brain-inspired deep learning, called 'snnTorch,' has surpassed 100,000 downloads and is used in a wide variety of projects. A new paper details the code and ...

The Mind's Eye of a Neural Network System

Nov. 16, 2023 — A new tool, based on topology, makes finding the areas where neural networks are confused as simple as spotting mountaintops from an airplane. The ability to spot and address those areas of confusion ...

Nuclear Expansion Failure Shows Simulations Require Change

Nov. 16, 2023 — A team of researchers looked back at a model that predicted nuclear power would expand dramatically in order to assess the efficacy of energy policies implemented ...

Realistic Talking Faces Created from Only an Audio Clip and a Person's Photo

Nov. 16, 2023 — A team of researchers has developed a computer program that creates realistic videos that reflect the facial expressions and head movements of the person speaking, only requiring an audio clip and a ...

Use It or Lose It: New Robotic System Assesses Mobility After Stroke

Nov. 16, 2023 — Stroke is a leading cause of long-term disability worldwide. Each year more than 15 million people worldwide have strokes, and three-quarters of stroke survivors will experience impairment, weakness ...

This 3D Printer Can Watch Itself Fabricate Objects

Nov. 15, 2023 — Engineers have developed a high-throughput, multimaterial 3D inkjet printer that uses computer vision to rapidly and automatically control the amount of material being deposited during the printing ...

New Twist on AI Makes the Most of Sparse Sensor Data

Nov. 14, 2023 — An innovative approach to artificial intelligence (AI) enables reconstructing a broad field of data, such as overall ocean temperature, from a small number of field-deployable sensors using ...

Twisted Magnets Make Brain-Inspired Computing More Adaptable

Nov. 13, 2023 — Researchers used chiral (twisted) magnets as their computational medium and found that, by applying an external magnetic field and changing temperature, the physical properties of these materials ...

Scientists Use Quantum Biology, AI to Sharpen Genome Editing Tool

Nov. 9, 2023 — Scientists used their expertise in quantum biology, artificial intelligence and bioengineering to improve how CRISPR Cas9 genome editing tools work on organisms like microbes that can be modified to ...

Engineers Are on a Failure-Finding Mission

Nov. 9, 2023 — Engineers developed a technique to quickly identify a range of potential failures in a system before they are deployed in the real ...

How Human Faces Can Teach Androids to Smile

Nov. 9, 2023 — A research team used 125 physical markers to understand the detailed mechanics of 44 different human facial motions. The aim was to better understand how to convey emotions with artificial faces. ...

Neuromorphic Computing Will Be Great... If Hardware Can Handle the Workload

Nov. 6, 2023 — Scientists believe they may have discovered a way to rework the hardware of AI. By mimicking the synapses of the human ...

Researchers Develop Solid-State Thermal Transistor for Better Heat Management

Nov. 2, 2023 — A team of researchers has unveiled a first-of-its-kind stable and fully solid-state thermal transistor that uses an electric field to control a semiconductor device's heat movement. The ...

Learning to Forget -- A Weapon in the Arsenal Against Harmful AI

Nov. 2, 2023 — With the AI summit well underway, researchers are keen to raise the very real problem associated with the technology -- teaching it how to ...

AI Should Be Better Understood and Managed -- New Research Warns

Nov. 2, 2023 — Artificial Intelligence (AI) and algorithms can and are being used to radicalize, polarize, and spread racism and political instability, says an academic. An expert argues that AI and algorithms are ...

New Twist on Optical Tweezers

Nov. 1, 2023 — Optical tweezers use laser light to manipulate small particles. A new method has been advanced using Stampede2 supercomputer simulations that makes optical tweezers safer to use for potential ...

New Techniques Efficiently Accelerate Sparse Tensors for Massive AI Models

Oct. 31, 2023 — New computational techniques, 'HighLight' and 'Tailors and Swiftiles,' could dramatically boost the speed and performance of high-performance computing applications like graph ...

Late Not Great -- Imperfect Timekeeping Places Significant Limit on Quantum Computers

Oct. 30, 2023 — Quantum physicists show that imperfect timekeeping places a fundamental limit to quantum computers and their applications. The team claims that even tiny timing errors add up to place a significant ...

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