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By oracknows on September 17, 2017. For nearly as long as I can remember, Ive been a fan of Jeopardy! Indeed, if Im at home at 7:30 PM on a weeknight, Jeopardy! will usually be on the television. Given that, I remember what was basically a bit of stunt programming in 2011, when Jeopardy! producers had IBMs artificial intelligence supercomputer Watson face off against two of the most winning champions in the history of the show, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. Watson won, leading ...

Enter homomorphic encryption. The technology uses lattice-based algorithms to hide the input, intermediate values, output, and even the function being computed from anyone not holding the secret decryption key. In other words, it allows computations to be performed on encrypted data. While fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) has been around for just over a decade, the combination of more powerful computers and better algorithms is now making it viable. Cracking the Code The origins of homomorphi...

AI model shows promise to generate faster, more accurate weather forecasts University of Washington Todays weather forecasts come from some of the most powerful computers on Earth. The huge machines churn through millions of calculations to solve equations to predict temperature, wind, rainfall and other weather events.  A forecasts combined need for speed and accuracy taxes even the most modern computers. The future could take a radically different approach. A collaboration between the Univer...

Skip to main content Currently Reading Google hired Timnit Gebru to be an outspoken critic of unethical AI. Then she was fired for it. Nitasha Tiku, The Washington Post Dec. 23, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail Timnit Gebru said she was fired by Google after criticizing its approach to minority hiring and the biases built into today’s artificial intelligence systems.Kimberly White/Getty Images for TechCrunch Two months ago, Google promoted Timnit Gebru, co-lead of a group focused on ethical artific...

By Hannah Hickey Dec 21, 2020 Today’s weather forecasts come from some of the most powerful computers on Earth. The huge machines churn through millions of calculations to solve equations to predict temperature, wind, rainfall, and other weather events. A forecast’s combined need for speed and accuracy taxes even the most modern computers. The newly developed global weather model bases its predictions on the past 40 years of weather data, rather than on detailed physics calculations. The s...

Bold sustainability commitments: An interview with Microsoft’s Lucas Joppa One of the boldest climate commitments in 2020 came from the tech giant Microsoft, which in January pledged to be carbon negative by 2030 and to address its legacy emissions–all the carbon the company has emitted since its founding in 1975–by 2050. Microsoft has also committed to replenish more water than it consumes and produce zero net waste by 2030, while protecting more land than it uses by 2025. Further, the c...

Artificial intelligence can analyze past weather patterns to predict future events, much more efficiently and potentially someday more accurately than today’s technology, researchers say. Today’s weather forecasts come from some of the most powerful computers on Earth. The huge machines churn through millions of calculations to solve equations to predict temperature, wind, rainfall, and other weather events. A forecast’s combined need for speed and accuracy taxes even the most modern comp...

Research at Microsoft 2020: Addressing the present while looking to the future Published Microsoft researchers pursue the big questions about what the world will be like in the future and the role technology will play. Not only do they take on the responsibility of exploring the long-term vision of their research, but they must also be ready to react to the immediate needs of the present. This year in particular, they were asked to use their roles as futurists to address pressing societal c...

Wed, 12/16/2020 LAWRENCE — University Distinguished Professor Jorge Soberón has been named interim director of the Biodiversity Institute & Natural History Museum at the University of Kansas. “Dr. Soberón is an internationally recognized leader in biodiversity modeling. He is well known for both his scholarship and his collegiality,” said Simon Atkinson, vice chancellor for research. “I have every confidence that he will lead the Biodiversity Institute well during this time of transit...