The Nation

What Happens When Universities Offer a “Critical Embrace” of AI?

With platforms like Boston University’s “TerrierGPT,” the pressure for students to use AI is coming from colleges themselves, ...

Order from disordered proteins: Physics-based algorithm designs biomolecules with custom properties

In synthetic and structural biology, advances in artificial intelligence have led to an explosion of designing new proteins ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Hardware Technologies And Algorithms for Vector Symbolic Architectures (Purdue Univ., Georgia Tech)

A new technical paper titled “Cross-Layer Design of Vector-Symbolic Computing: Bridging Cognition and Brain-Inspired Hardware Acceleration” was published by researchers at Purdue University and ...
Interesting Engineering

Are engineers at risk from AI? A new study suggests it’s complicated

For the engineering profession, which has long been seen as the engine of innovation, the AI revolution poses a dilemma: Will generative AI come for their jobs? The artificial intelligence ecosystem, ...
IEEE

Design and Analysis of Optimization Method for Ultra-Wideband PA Based on Improved MOEA/D Algorithm Using Mixed Objective Function

Abstract: This article proposes a design and optimization method for Ultra-Wideband power amplifiers (PAs) using improved multiobjective evolutionary algorithm based on decomposition (MOEA/D) and ...
Quanta Magazine

AI Comes Up with Bizarre Physics Experiments. But They Work.

There are precision measurements, and then there’s the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. In each of LIGO’s twin gravitational wave detectors (one in Hanford, Washington, and the ...
The New York Times

In the Age of the Algorithm, Roots Music Is Rising

Streaming services are helping revive America’s most old-fashioned, undigital genre. Charley Crockett, a rising star in the roots-music field, performing in Nashville, Ind., in May.Credit...Kristine ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Parker, S. K., & Grote, G. (2020). Automation, Algorithms, and Beyond: Why Work Design Matters More than Ever in a Digital World. Applied Psychology, 71, 1171-1204.

ABSTRACT: This study investigates the complex relationships among organizational identification, organizational self-esteem, and employee loyalty among grassroots employees working in small and medium ...
C&EN

Comparative Analysis of Reinforcement Learning Algorithms for Finding Reaction Pathways: Insights from a Large Benchmark Data Set

Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 001-0020, Japan Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery (ICReDD), Hokkaido University, Sapporo 001-0020, Japan ...
Frontiers

Optimum design of double tuned mass dampers using multiple metaheuristic multi-objective optimization algorithms under seismic excitation

The tuned mass damper is one of the most frequently employed structural control devices for mitigating dynamic vibrations in structures subjected to earthquake ground motions. Conventional tuned mass ...