October 2017
The sci-fi noir world of Blade Runner
... disciplines that have slowly mutated into buzz words for market reviews: ‘the cloud’, ‘deep learning’, ‘neural networks’, etc. The flying police cars are known as spinners to fans of the film. While there is a hype, there...
February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
... About the author Dr Martin Lades holds an interdisciplinary physics PhD with a dissertation in pattern recognition and neural networks from the Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum and an MS in physics in applied optics from the Friedrich-Alexander Universitaet...
10 October 2016
Risk of chronic dementia for astronauts heading to Mars
... to Limoli’s lab at UCl. Imaging of the test subjects, after a six month period, found that the brain's neural network was impaired through the reduction of dendrites and spines on neurons. Neurons are responsible for the transmission...
14 September 2018
AI helps find new pulses from mysterious FRB source
... Siemion, and Bernard M. Oliver from the SETI Institute, the team taught their algorithm – known as a convolutional neural network – to recognise the 21 bursts found by the classical search method and then set it loose on the colossal dataset...
17 September 2021
NASA funds project to mine the Moon with swarms of autonomous robots
... them faster. Neuromorphic computing on the other hand models the way the brain works through “spiking” neural networks that can convey information in both the same temporal and spatial way as the brain can and...
