Publication: Scientific Computing

First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 1 reports

Philosopher Jill North Explores Quantum Reality

Philosopher Jill North ponders what quantum mechanics has done to reality. In a post-Einstein world where wave/particles apparently exist in multidimensions, why do we seem to live in a space of only three dimensions?North, associate professor of philosophy, ... [Published Scientific Computing - 5 hours ago]

Entities: Quantum Mechanics, Oxford University Press, Entanglement

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Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Quest for Dark Matter Begins With a Few Tiny Bubbles

EVANSTON, Ill. — Northwestern University physicist Eric Dahl is part of a group of physicists that has just launched an unusual new experiment in an attempt to be the first to directly confirm the existence of dark matter.Scientists this week heard their ... [Published Scientific Computing - 5 hours ago]

Entities: Dark Matter, Nucleus, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Particle Physics

First reported 21 hours ago - Updated 21 hours ago - 1 reports

NICE! The Brain as a Model for Future Supercomputers

Sandia National LaboratoriesALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The brain’s repute took a big hit in 1997 when an IBM supercomputer defeated world chess champion Gary Kasparov in a match reported around the world.But, in the second round, the brain is back.A Sandia National ... [Published Scientific Computing - 21 hours ago]

Entities: Moore's Law, Industrial Revolution, Silicon, Christof Koch

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Launching the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab

We believe quantum computing may help solve some of the most challenging computer science problems, particularly in machine learning. Machine learning is all about building better models of the world to make more accurate predictions. If we want to cure ... [Published Scientific Computing - May 23 2013]

Entities: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Architect, NASA, Universities Space Research Association

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Harvard University

Elaborate Nanostructures Blossom, Self-assemble in Beaker

Harvard School of Engineering and Applied SciencesCambridge, MA -- "Spring is like a perhaps hand," wrote the poet E. E. Cummings: "carefully / moving a perhaps / fraction of flower here placing / an inch of air there... / without breaking anything."With ... [Published Scientific Computing - May 22 2013]

Entities: Harvard University, Chemical, Nanostructures, Gradient, Wyss Institute

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

NASA

Strong Storms over Oklahoma

This image of the storm system that generated the F-4 tornado in Moore, Oklahoma was taken by NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument aboard one of the Earth Observing System (EOS) satellites. The image was captured on ... [Published Scientific Computing - May 22 2013]

Entities: Earth Observing System, Tornado, NASA

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Unheralded Mathematician Bridges the Prime Gap

On April 17, a paper arrived in the inbox of Annals of Mathematics, one of the discipline’s preeminent journals. Written by a mathematician virtually unknown to the experts in his field — a 50-something lecturer at the University of New Hampshire named ... [Published Scientific Computing - May 22 2013]

Entities: Mathematician, Andrew Granville, Sieve of Eratosthenes, Daniel Goldston