Computer Program Predicts Risk of Deadly Irregular Heart Beats
Kicking Neural Network Automation Into High Gear
A new area in artificial intelligence involves using algorithms to automatically design machine-learning systems known as neural networks, which are more accurate and efficient than those developed by human engineers. But this so-called neural architecture search (NAS) technique is computationally expensive. A state-of-the-art NAS algorithm recently developed by Google to run on a squad of…
Handling Trillions of Supercomputer Files Just Got Simpler
A new distributed file system for high-performance computing distributed March 14 via the software collaboration site GitHub provides unprecedented performance for creating, updating and managing extreme numbers of files. “We designed DeltaFS to enable the creation of trillions of files,” said Brad Settlemyer, a Los Alamos computer scientist and project leader. Los Alamos National Laboratory…
Data-driven Modeling and AI-based Image Processing to Improve Production
At Hannover Messe 2019, Fraunhofer FIT will present data-driven modeling supporting production planning and optimizing resource utilization. The models help to understand and optimize complex processes, and can be used as predictive tools. In addition, they will demo a system that uses AI-based image processing to monitor and evaluate, in real time, the situation and…
Achieving Greater Efficiency for Fast Data Center Operations
Today’s data centers eat up and waste a good amount of energy responding to user requests as fast as possible, with only a few microseconds delay. A new system by MIT researchers improves the efficiency of high-speed operations by better assigning time-sensitive data processing across central processing unit (CPU) cores and ensuring hardware runs productively.…
Novel Software Offers Possible Reduction in Arrhythmic Heart Disease
The Web Meets Genomics: A DNA Search Engine for Microbes
Using Artificial Intelligence to Save Bees
A beekeeper teamed up with the Signal Processing Laboratory 5 and a group of Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) students to develop an app that counts the number of Varroa mites in beehives. This parasite is one of the two main threats—along with pesticides—to bees’ long-term survival. Knowing the extent of the mites’ infestation…
Computer Program Aids Food Safety Experts With Pathogen Testing
An innovative computer program could be a big help for food safety professionals working to keep production facilities free of food-borne pathogens. Cornell University scientists have developed a computer program, Environmental Monitoring With an Agent-Based Model of Listeria (EnABLe), to simulate the most likely locations in a processing facility where the deadly food-borne pathogen Listeria…
WVU Receives $2.2 Million Software Gift From Petroleum Experts Limited
For more than a decade, geology students at West Virginia University have used the same advanced software used by oil and gas companies worldwide, expanding their marketability for industry jobs. Petroleum Experts Limited has furthered this access with an in-kind gift of its MOVE software, valued at $2.2 million. “Geologists have long struggled to work with ‘big data’ comprised…
Measuring AI’s Ability to Learn Is Difficult
Hardware-Software Co-Design to Make Neural Nets Less Power Hungry
A team led by the University of California San Diego has developed a neuroinspired hardware-software co-design approach that could make neural network training more energy-efficient and faster. Their work could one day make it possible to train neural networks on low-power devices such as smartphones, laptops and embedded devices. The advance is described in a…
FDA Clears Prescription Mobile Software Application to Treat Opioid Use Disorder
Researchers Successfully Train Computers to Identify Animals in Photos
A computer model developed at the University of Wyoming by UW researchers and others has demonstrated remarkable accuracy and efficiency in identifying images of wild animals from camera-trap photographs in North America. The artificial-intelligence breakthrough, detailed in a paper published in the scientific journal Methods in Ecology and Evolution, is described as a significant advancement in…
S&T Dam-breach Simulation Software Helping Communities Plan for Emergencies
Two days after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, 70,000 residents in the vicinity of the Guajataca Dam were urged to evacuate as a precaution. Heavy rains were rapidly filling up the island’s 36 dams. Without clearer data, local authorities could only plan for the worst-case scenario. The Guajataca Dam, which holds more than 11 billion…
Advanced Computer Technology and Software Turn Species Identification Interactive
Representing a group of successful biocontrol agents for various pest fruit flies, a parasitic wasp genus remains largely overlooked. While its most recent identification key dates back to 1969, many new species have been added since then. As if to make matters worse, this group of visually identical species most likely contains many species yet…
Open Source Machine Learning Tool Could Help Choose Cancer Drugs
The selection of a first-line chemotherapy drug to treat many types of cancer is often a clear-cut decision governed by standard-of-care protocols, but what drug should be used next if the first one fails? That’s where Georgia Institute of Technology researchers believe their new open source decision support tool could come in. Using machine learning…
Army Researcher Minimizes the Impact of Cyber-Attacks in Cloud Computing
Reusable Software for High Performance Computing
The world’s fastest supercomputer can now perform 200,000 trillion calculations per second, and several companies and government agencies around the world are competing to build a machine that will have the computer power to simulate networks on the scale of the human brain. This extremely powerful hardware requires extremely powerful software, so existing software code…
Coming Soon to Exascale Computing: Software for Chemistry of Catalysis
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory is launching a four-year, $3.2 million project to develop software that will bring the power of exascale computers to the computational study and design of catalytic materials. Ames Laboratory scientist Mark Gordon, also the Francis M. Craig Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Iowa State University, will lead the laboratory’s…
Software Finds the Best Way to Stick a Mars Landing
Selecting a landing site for a rover headed to Mars is a lengthy process that normally involves large committees of scientists and engineers. These committees typically spend several years weighing a mission’s science objectives against a vehicle’s engineering constraints, to identify sites that are both scientifically interesting and safe to land on. For instance, a…
AI Improves Doctors’ Ability to Correctly Interpret Tests and Diagnose Lung Disease
AI Used to Detect Fetal Heart Problems
Brown Researchers Teach Computers to See Optical Illusions
Is that circle green or gray? Are the center lines straight or tilted? Optical illusions can be fun to experience and debate, but understanding how human brains perceive these different phenomena remains an active area of scientific research. For one class of optical illusions, called contextual phenomena, those perceptions are known to depend on context.…