Computers

Music artists can find inspiration and new creative directions for their song writing with technology developed by Waterloo researchers. LyricJam, a real-time system that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to generate lyric lines for live instrumental music, was created by members of the University's Natural Language Processing Lab. The lab, led by Olga Vechtomova, a Waterloo … [Read more...] about Researchers develop real-time lyric generation technology to inspire song writing

Advancements in natural language processing (NLP) enable computers to understand what humans say and help people communicate through tools like machine translation, voice-controlled assistants and chatbots. But NLP research often only focuses on spoken languages, excluding the more than 200 signed languages around the world and the roughly 70 million people who might rely on … [Read more...] about Natural language processing research: Signed languages

A new study shows that artificial intelligence networks based on human brain connectivity can perform cognitive tasks efficiently. By examining MRI data from a large Open Science repository, researchers reconstructed a brain connectivity pattern, and applied it to an artificial neural network (ANN). An ANN is a computing system consisting of multiple input and output units, … [Read more...] about Brain connectivity can build better AI: Artificial neural networks modeled on real brains can perform cognitive tasks

What if a super-resolution imaging technique used in the latest 8K premium TVs is applied to scanning electron microscopy, essential equipment for materials research? A joint research team from POSTECH and the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS) applied deep learning to the scanning electron microscopy (SEM) to develop a super-resolution imaging technique that can … [Read more...] about Overcoming the limitations of scanning electron microscopy with AI

Children's heavy digital media use is associated with a risk of being overweight later in adolescence. Physical activity protects children from the adverse effects of digital media on their weight later in adolescence. A recently completed study shows that six hours of leisure-time physical activity per week at the age of 11 reduces the risk of being overweight at 14 years of … [Read more...] about Physical activity protects children from the adverse effects of digital media on their weight later in adolescence

The inner 24-hour cycles -- or circadian rhythms -- are key to maintaining human, plant and animal health, which could provide valuable insight into how broken clocks impact health. Circadian rhythms, such as the sleep-wake cycle, are innate to most living organisms and critical to life on Earth. The word circadian originates from the Latin phrase 'circa diem' which means … [Read more...] about Unlocking the AI algorithm ‘black box’ – new machine learning technology to find out what makes plants and humans tick

A single molecule contains a wealth of information. It includes not only the number of each kind of constituent atom, but also how they're arranged and how they attach to each other. And during chemical reactions, that information determines the outcome and becomes transformed. Molecules collide, break apart, reassemble, and rebuild in predictable ways. There's another way of … [Read more...] about How chemical reactions compute

Since receiving a $25 million grant in 2019 to become the first National Science Foundation (NSF) Quantum Foundry, UC Santa Barbara researchers affiliated with the foundry have been working to develop materials that can enable quantum information-based technologies for such applications as quantum computing, communications, sensing, and simulation. They may have done it. In a … [Read more...] about An exciting new material: Candidate superconductor

Facial recognition software can be used to spot a face in a crowd; but what if it could also predict where someone else was in the same crowd? While this may sound like science fiction, researchers from Japan have now shown that artificial intelligence can accomplish something very similar on a cellular level. In a study published in Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, … [Read more...] about AI knows where your proteins go

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, educational institutions have had to quickly transition to remote learning and exam taking. This has led to an increase in the use of online proctoring services to curb student cheating, including restricted browser modes, video/screen monitoring, local network traffic analysis and eye tracking. In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers led … [Read more...] about New study examines privacy and security perceptions of online education proctoring services: Students express concern about the amount and the personal nature of information shared with exam proctoring companies