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Artificial intelligence brain

New type of computer memory could greatly reduce energy use and improve performance

23 Jun 2023

Researchers have developed a new design for computer memory that could both greatly improve performance and reduce the energy demands of internet and...

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A Raspberry Pi.

The life of Pi: Ten years of Raspberry Pi

25 Feb 2022

The most successful computer ever to come out of the UK celebrates its tenth anniversary this year.

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Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence

Can federated learning save the world?

10 May 2021

Training the artificial intelligence models that underpin web search engines, power smart assistants and enable driverless cars, consumes megawatts...

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Closeup of computer keyboard

Codecheck confirms reproducibility of COVID-19 model results

09 Jun 2020

Cambridge researcher confirms reproducibility of high-profile Imperial College coronavirus computational model.

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What makes a faster typist?

05 Apr 2018

The largest-ever dataset on typing speeds and styles, based on 136 million keystrokes from 168,000 volunteers, finds that the fastest typists not...

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New type of supercomputer could be based on ‘magic dust’ combination of light and matter

25 Sep 2017

A team of researchers from the UK and Russia have successfully demonstrated that a type of ‘magic dust’ which combines light and matter can be used...

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Inter-ACE Cyber Challenge 2017

Cambridge to host transatlantic cyber security competition

20 Jul 2017

A major cyber security challenge, aimed at educating and inspiring the next generation of cyber defenders from across the UK and US, will be held at...

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2019 by ExperiensS

Artificial intelligence: computer says YES (but is it right?)

20 Oct 2016

Computers that learn for themselves are with us now. As they become more common in ‘high-stakes’ applications like robotic surgery, terrorism...

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Our ambiguous world of words

30 May 2013

Ambiguity in language poses the greatest challenge when it comes to training a computer to understand the written word. Now, new research aims to...

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The Emotion Sense app asks users to record their feelings on a chart designed by psychologists, then surveys them further to assess their mood accurately. This is cross-referred with data about their behaviour, picked up by sensors within the phone itself

Mood-tracking app paves way for pocket therapy

08 May 2013

An Android app which keeps tabs on users’ mood swings and works out what might be causing them has been developed by researchers, with implications...

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3D microchip created

31 Jan 2013

New type of microchip created which not only moves information from left to right and back to front, but up and down as well.

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Light cycles

Humanity's last invention and our uncertain future

25 Nov 2012

A philosopher, a scientist and a software engineer have come together to propose a new centre at Cambridge to address developments in human...

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