Superconducting Quantum Circuits
(T) Professor Martinis from UCSB and his team of students have made recently a significant contribution to the field of quantum computing. Their contribution has been so significant that Google proposed earlier […]
California: Paradise Burning
(E) The New Yorker has a fantastic video about the state of California Central Valley. It is “gripped by one of the worst droughts on record, and the livelihood of […]
Nao is Driving its Own Car
(T) RobotsLAB, an education company that provides STEM (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics) curriculum featuring robots, has developed a fun application with Nao, the famous humanoid robot: Nao is now driving its own car! […]
We Are Losing the Battle Against the Ebola Virus!
(E) Everyone knows about it. We are losing the battle against the Ebola virus. However, instead of taking that challenge seriously, we seem to have been indifferent and complacent. Docteur […]
Reducing the Requirements on Computation for Big Data by Leveraging Statistical Inference
(T) One of the San Francisco machine learning meet-ups invited Professor Michael Jordan from UC Berkeley for a talk at Yelp this week. Professor Jordan is an active researcher in machine learning […]
The Age of Sustainable Development
(E) Professor Jeffrey Sachs has started a class on Coursera about Sustainable Development. This is a very important topic that everyone must study. At least, please watch the videos if […]
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