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Physicists create new form of light

Try a quick experiment: Take two flashlights into a dark room and shine them so that their light beams cross....

Scientists demonstrate one of largest quantum simulators yet, with 51 atoms

Physicists at MIT and Harvard University have demonstrated a new way to manipulate quantum bits of matter. In a paper...

Grad students earn Department of Energy computational fellowships

Four first-year graduate students have been awarded U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Computational Science Graduate Fellowships to support their research....

How to harness the collective intelligence of the enterprise

The collective intelligence of the group has long been extolled by companies as a good thing -- mitigating individual... biases of all sorts....

Ultracold molecules hold promise for quantum computing

Researchers have taken an important step toward the long-sought goal of a quantum computer, which in theory should be capable...

Toward optical quantum computing

Ordinarily, light particles — photons — don’t interact. If two photons collide in a vacuum, they simply pass through each...

Data literacy in high demand; academia responds

A new degree program at Carnegie Mellon University and an online data science training course at MIT are focused on arming those in...

Machine learning systems are a ‘land rush’ of opportunity for CIOs

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Machine learning is overtaking big data in Google searches, but the hype around artificial intelligence systems may not be hyped...

Toward mass-producible quantum computers

Quantum computers are experimental devices that offer large speedups on some computational problems. One promising approach to building them involves...

MIT aims to pry open ‘black box’ of machine learning systems

Do your IT experts know what the company's machine learning algorithms are doing? They almost certainly do not, according to Sam Madden, professor...

Sandwiched between superconductors, graphene adopts exotic electronic states

In normal conductive materials such as silver and copper, electric current flows with varying degrees of resistance, in the form...

Blockchain use cases proliferate, but to whose benefit not yet clear

When Brian Behlendorf learned that blockchain technology was being applied to a land registry project in Honduras,... the proverbial lightbulb went on. Land...

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