Disney Research has developed a new method to improve the rendering of high-quality images from 3-D models by drastically reducing the noise, or discolored pixels, contained in the animated images,
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What did Big Data find when it analyzed 150 years of British history?
Credit: CC0 Public Domain What could be learnt about the world if you could read the news from over 100 local newspapers for a period of 150 years? This is
How on earth does geotagging work?
Davood Rafiei is a professor in the Department of Computing Sciences and expert in big data and information management. Credit: John Ulan In an increasingly digital world, we don’t always
Scientists turn memory chips into processors to speed up computing tasks
ReRAM computing circuit. Credit: Nanyang Technological University A team of international scientists have found a way to make memory chips perform computing tasks, which is traditionally done by computer processors
New data-mining strategy that offers unprecedented pattern search speed could glean new insights from massive datasets
A new data mining strategy that offers unprecedented pattern search speed could lead to new insights from massive data. Credit: © Mopic / Alamy Stock Photo DTFTEM Searching for recurring
Improvements to a decision-making algorithm
As contributors to businesses, sports teams, or governments, most of us take part in some sort of group problem solving. But what is the best way to collaborate on a
Network traffic anomaly detection
In a reexamination of existing combinatorial optimization (graph) algorithms used to find the best solution with minimum enumeration, scientists from Simula Research Laboratory (Norway), University of Bergen (Norway), Purdue …
Coding theorem defines decoding error capacity for general scenarios
Researchers at the A*STAR, Data Storage Institute (DSI), have filed a patent on low-density parity-check (LDPC) coding with soft decision decoding, which is an advanced error correction coding scheme for
Multi-core processors for mobility and industry 4.0
ARAMiS (right) and demonstrator of an ARAMiS control unit (left) at the BMBF stand at CeBIT 2016. Credit: Georg Hofstetter Safety-critical applications in automobility, aviation, and industry 4.0 will require
Use it or lose it—the search for enlightenment in dark data
How to make sense of it all? Credit: Shutterstock Big data is big news these days. But most organisations just end up hoarding vast reams of data, leaving them with
System filters the arguments in texts and checks their quality
Quality check on sources: Prof. Iryna Gurevych (left) and her team. Credit: Sandra Junker There is a sea of information and argumentation on the Internet covering every possible world-shattering subject.
Researcher proposes parallel Intelligence, a move toward the intelligent future
Nine months ago, a computer beat one of the world’s best players at one of the world’s oldest games, Go. That was the start of the era of new IT,
Syncing data center computers at the speed of light
When several computers need to work together, as when calculating in parallel on several parts of a single large problem or managing a large database, they need to keep in
Rice, Baylor team sets new mark for ‘deep learning’
From left, Richard Baraniuk, Tan Nguyen and Ankit Patel. Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University Neuroscience and artificial intelligence experts from Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine have taken inspiration from
Big data technique shrinks data sets while preserving their fundamental mathematical relationships
A new technique devised by MIT researchers can take data sets with huge numbers of variables and find approximations of them with far fewer variables. Credit: Massachusetts Institute of Technology