Enlarge (credit: Barcroft Media / Getty Images) In the US, a 2016 Gallup poll found that the majority of schools want to start teaching code, with 66% of K-12 school principals thinking that computer science learning should be incorporated into other subjects. Most countries in Europe have added coding classes and computer science to their […]
(credit: D-Wave) Early on in D-Wave’s history, the company made bold claims about its quantum annealer outperforming algorithms run on traditional CPUs. Those claims turned out to be premature, as improvements to these algorithms pulled the traditional hardware back in front. Since then, the company has been far more circumspect about its performance claims, even […]
Enlarge / The output of two optical frequency combs, showing the light appearing at evenly spaced wavelengths. (credit: ESO) AI and machine-learning techniques have become a major focus of everything from cloud computing services to cell phone manufacturers. Unfortunately, our existing processors are a bad match for the sort of algorithms that many of these […]
The very first key conquest of artificial intelligence was chess. The sport has a shocking number of potential combinations, however, it had been relatively tractable as it was organised by means of a set of rules that are clear. An algorithm can always have great understanding of the condition of this game and understand each […]
Expand / Proteins quickly form complex constructions that had proven tough to forecast. (charge: Argonne National Lab) Now, DeepMind declared it had apparently solved one of Science’s exceptional difficulties: the series of amino acids within a protein folds into a three-dimensional form that allows their intricate functions. It is a computational challenge which has resisted […]
Expand Nowadays, quantum computing firm D-Wave is announcing the availability of its next-generation quantum annealer, a specialized chip which uses quantum results to resolve optimization and minimization issues. The hardware itself is not a lot of surprise–D-Wave had been discussing its specifics months past –however D-Wave spoke with Ars concerning the challenges of constructing a […]