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Gravity is the weakest of the four fundamental forces of nature but it is also the most impactful on your day-to-day business. Every time you drop a pencil or an apple lands on your head, gravity keeps your feet firmly planted to the ground. But the strength of gravity varies across the cosmos and the gravitational pull we are used to on Earth is weaker on a smaller and less heavy world like the Moon.
Curtin astrophysicist Associate Professor Cathryn Trott and electrochemistry researcher Associate Professor Debbie Silvester-Dean have been recognised.
The University of Western Australia's Emeritus Professor Cheryl Praeger has been awarded the inaugural Ruby Payne-Scott Medal for her mathematical work.
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Robots solving computer games, recognizing human voices, or helping in finding optimal medical treatments: those are only a few astonishing examples of what the field of artificial intelligence has produced in the past years. The ongoing race for better machines has led to the question of how and with what means improvements can be achieved. In parallel, huge recent progress in quantum technologies have confirmed the power of quantum physics, not only for its often peculiar and puzzling theories, but also for real-life applications. Hence, the idea of merging the two fields: on one hand, artificial intelligence with its autonomous machines; on the other hand, quantum physics with its powerful algorithms.
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