Quantum algorithm beats classical tools on complement sampling tasks

Quantum computers—devices that process information using quantum mechanical effects—have long been expected to outperform classical systems on certain tasks. Over the past few decades, researchers ...

Q&A: Algorithm achieves near end-to-end genome assembly without ultra-long DNA sequencing

Haoyu Cheng, Ph.D., assistant professor of biomedical informatics and data science at Yale School of Medicine, has developed a new algorithm capable of building complete human genomes using standard ...
Quanta Magazine

A New Map Traces the Limits of Computation

A major advance reveals deep connections between the classes of problems that computers can — and can’t — possibly do. At first glance, the big news coming out of this summer’s conference on the ...
Design-Reuse

Hybrid Hardware Architecture for Low Complexity Motion Estimation Algorithm

Nowadays hybrid hardware architecture (HHA) becomes increasingly popular in embedded systems (ES). In this paper HHA is presented for low bit depth motion estimation (ME) algorithm. Intellectual ...
Scientific American

Algorithms Are Making Important Decisions. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Can we ever really trust algorithms to make decisions for us? Previous research has proved these programs can reinforce society’s harmful biases, but the problems go beyond that. A new study shows how ...