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Published:  The modelling will support shipping companies as they aim for a net-zero emissions industry. Artificial Intelligence technologies from the University of Southampton are helping to deliver more efficient shipping by providing insights, derived from millions of simulations, on the most effective strategies to achieve net-zero targets. The research collaboration with Shell Shipping and Maritime analyses carbon tax scenarios before predicting the impact of green strategies such as adju...

 E-Mail Reflexes protect our bodies - for example when we pull our hand back from a hot stove. These protective mechanisms could also be useful for robots. In this interview, Prof. Sami Haddadin and Johannes Kühn of the Munich School of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MSRM) of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) explain why giving test subjects a "slap on the hand" could lay the foundations for the robots of the future. In your paper, published in Scientific Reports, you describe an ...

Date Time Robots could safeguard people from pain Reflexes protect our bodies – for example when we pull our hand back from a hot stove. These protective mechanisms could also be useful for robots. In this interview, Prof. Sami Haddadin and Johannes Kühn of the Munich School of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MSRM) of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) explain why giving test subjects a “slap on the hand” could lay the foundations for the robots of the future. In your paper, p...

Understanding the brain is the key to true AI: neuroscientist and tech entrepreneur Jeff Hawkins Getty Images Synopsis Early efforts in artificial intelligence emerged from how humans seemed to think. Today’s deep neural networks are inspired by the way neurons fire in the brain. But how alike are artificial and biological intelligence? Hawkins isnt the first Valley entrepreneur to think he has the answers — and everyone won’t agree with his conclusions. But his ideas could shake up AI. ...

The Wu Tsai Institute will bring together neuroscience-related disciplines. Dan Renzetti Psychology professor Dylan Gee (right) and grad student Lucinda Sisk ’25PhD conduct an MRI scan. The Wu Tsai Institute will bring together faculty from psychology, neuroscience, and other disciplines. View full image There it sits, three pounds made weightless in cerebrospinal fluid: the brain. It gives us the world but reveals nothing of itself. We have spent decades deconstructing its processes, fro...

Conclusion (~1,700 words). All backed up by over 200 references (~6,500 words). We must stop crediting the wrong people for inventions made by others. Instead lets heed the recent call in the journal Nature: "Let 2020 be the year in which we value those who ensure that science is self-correcting"[SV20]. Like those who know me can testify, finding and citing original sources of scientific and technological innovations is important to me, whether they are mine or other peoples [DL1][DL2][HIN]...

  The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) Ghana will be holding a high-profile virtual forum on 15th March 2021, to commemorate the International Day of Mathematics which highlights the role Mathematics plays in contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 agenda of the United Nations. The 14th of March every year has been set aside to celebrate the beauty and importance of Mathematics and its essential role in human development. The project to have UNESCO procl...

Image via Paradox Interactive If you want a more interesting empire in Stellaris that starts a bit differently than the regular start, you can modify your species’ origin. There are numerous origins to pick from that come from DLC, and the more DLC you have, the more varied origins you’ll be able to place on your empire. Your game’s advantages and start will vary, giving you something new to try when you begin your Stellaris adventure. You may create a species to fit that origin best, or ...

Date Time Key task in computer vision and graphics gets a boost Kanazawa, Japan – Non-rigid point set registration is the process of finding a spatial transformation that aligns two shapes represented as a set of data points. It has extensive applications in areas such as autonomous driving, medical imaging, and robotic manipulation. Now, a method has been developed to speed up this procedure. In a study published in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, a researcher...