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 ...
insideHPC

Donald Knuth on Algorithms, Complexity, and The Art of Computer Programming

In this Artificial Intelligence podcast with Lex Fridman, computer scientist Donald Knuth discusses Alan Turing, Neural networks, machine learning and other AI topics from ant colonies and human ...
Queen Mary University of London

New perspectives on algorithms and complexity from string theory

The mathematics of symmetry, also known as group theory, is widely used as a tool in the solution of complex problems in many areas of theoretical physics, including string theory. A sequence of ...
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 ...