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Put your hand up if you enjoy using your TV remote to type in the name of the show you want to watch next. Who doesn’t...
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Sometimes, good luck wears bad luck’s clothing — and that was certainly the case in 2015 for the young electrical and computer engineer Supreeth Shashikumar, when...
Early in her career, computer scientist Marinka Zitnik confronted a biomedical mystery: among 12,000 genes, which handful played a role in the response of a model...
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Making sense of our kaleidoscopic visual world has been a decades-long grand challenge for computer scientists. That’s because there’s so much more to vision than mere...