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04/20/2018 05:06 PM
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How social networking sites may discriminate against women
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Using the photo-sharing site Instagram as a test case, researchers demonstrate how two common recommendation algorithms amplify a network effect known as homophily in which similar or like-minded people cluster together. They further show how algorithms turned loose on a network with homophily effectively make women less visible; they found that the women in their dataset, whose photos were slightly less likely to be 'liked' or commented on, became even less popular once recommendation algorithms were introduced.
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04/18/2018 02:13 PM
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How to calculate pricing and resources for cloud computing
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Researchers have developed a new algorithm that cloud computing service providers can use to establish pricing and allocate resources.
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04/18/2018 11:16 AM
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Robot developed for automated assembly of designer nanomaterials
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Engineers have developed a robot that can identify, collect, and manipulate two-dimensional nanocrystals. The robot stacked nanocrystals to form the most complex van der Waals heterostructure produced to date, with much less human intervention than the manual operations previously used to produce van der Waals heterostructures. This robot allows unprecedented access to van der Waals heterostructures, which are attractive for use in advanced electronics.
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04/17/2018 11:57 AM
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Algorithm to locate fake users on many social networks
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Researchers have developed a new generic method to detect fake accounts on most types of social networks, including Facebook and Twitter.
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04/12/2018 10:28 AM
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Student develops gaming technology for scientific research
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Scientists have developed a new method and software for using computer game technology for complex scientific and engineering simulations.
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04/10/2018 04:11 PM
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Making computer animation more agile, acrobatic -- and realistic
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Animation in film and video games is hard to make realistic: each action typically requires creating a separate controller, while deep reinforcement learning has yet to generate realistic human or animal motion. Computer scientists have now developed an algorithm that uses reinforcement learning to generate realistic simulations that can even recover realistically, after tripping, for example. The same algorithm works for 25 acrobatic and dance tricks, with one month of learning per skill.
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03/29/2018 09:54 AM
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Chemical synthesis with artificial intelligence: Researchers develop new computer method
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The board game Go was long considered to be a bastion reserved for human players due to its complexity. Now, however, the world's best players no longer have any chance of winning against the 'AlphaGo' software. Researchers have now demonstrated that the recipe for the success of this software can be put to excellent use to plan chemical syntheses.
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03/29/2018 08:32 AM
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Software automatically generates knitting instructions for 3-D shapes
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Computer scientists have developed a system that can translate a wide variety of 3-D shapes into stitch-by-stitch instructions that enable a computer-controlled knitting machine to automatically produce those shapes.
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03/28/2018 11:59 AM
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Teaching machines to spot the essential
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Physicists have developed a novel machine-learning algorithm that analyses large data sets describing a physical system and extract from them the essential information needed to understand the underlying physics.
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03/25/2018 11:57 AM
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Dissecting artificial intelligence to better understand the human brain
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In the natural world, intelligence takes many forms. It could be a bat using echolocation to expertly navigate in the dark, or an octopus adapting its behavior to survive in the deep ocean. Likewise, in the computer science world, multiple forms of artificial intelligence are emerging. Cognitive neuroscientists are using those emerging networks to enhance understanding of one of the most elusive intelligence systems, the human brain.
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03/22/2018 03:03 PM
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AI tool promotes positive peer groups to tackle substance abuse
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When it comes to fighting substance abuse, research suggests the company you keep can make the difference between recovery and relapse. Researchers have created an algorithm that sorts intervention program participants -- who are voluntarily working on recovery -- into smaller groups, or subgroups, in a way that maintains helpful social connections and breaks social connections that could be detrimental to recovery.
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03/21/2018 05:40 PM
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Brain-like computers moving closer to cracking codes
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Scientists have discovered a way to leverage emerging brain-like computer architectures for an age-old number-theoretic problem known as integer factorization.
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