The Japan Times (Japan)IBM on Thursday opened a research hub at Keio University in Japan to explore quantum computing applications, according to Keio's Naoki Yamamoto. The IBM Q Network Hub is the first Asian facility where scientists will be able to tap into IBM Q, IBM's 20-qubit (quantum bit) computer in New York. Keio's Kohei Ito says a primary goal of the hub will be to identify quantum computing applications, with students, faculty, and private-sector researchers all expected to […]

ETH ZurichETH Zurich researchers in Switzerland have created technology that can detect human metabolic emissions, which could potentially aid search and rescue teams. ETH Zurich's Sotiris Pratsinis and his team developed a device combining sensors that pick up traces of acetone, ammonia, and isoprene with off-the-shelf carbon dioxide and moisture detectors. Humans emit these compounds through their breath and skin, and laboratory tests in partnership with Austrian and Cypriot researchers […]

HPCwireAviad Rubinstein has been named to receive the ACM 2017 Doctoral Dissertation Award for his dissertation, "Hardness of Approximation Between P and NP," in which he established the intractability of the approximate Nash equilibrium problem and several other important problems between P and NP completeness. A persistent issue in theoretical computer science concerns whether an approximate Nash equilibrium--a variant of the Nash equilibrium that enables the possibility that a player may […]

University of Missouri Battery-operated electronics users often complain that battery life is too short and the devices generate too much heat, and researchers at the University of Missouri (MU) have developed a material that could solve both problems. Led by MU's Deepak K. Singh, the team developed a two-dimensional, nanostructured material by depositing a magnetic permalloy on the honeycomb structure template of a silicon substrate. The new material conducts unidirectional current, and when […]

MIT NewsEngineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a virtual reality training system for aerial drones so they can navigate empty space while perceiving a rich, artificial environment. The team says its Flight Goggles system could reduce how often drones crash during training, and function as a virtual testbed for an unlimited number of environments and conditions. "If anything, the system can make autonomous vehicles more responsive, faster, and more […]