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Turing Award Winner On His Pioneering Algorithms

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he left the lab to study applied mathematics at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. I’ve prospered in that environment. After he got his degree in 1973, the lab hired him full time as a researcher. With encouragement from his colleagues to pursue a Ph.D., You follow your own path and course of research,” he says.

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Engineers Are Working on a Solar Microgrid to Outlast Lunar Nights

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The habitation unit will be about the same size as the International Space Station , the mining and processing center a bit larger, with a distance of around 10 kilometers between them, Rashkin says. All of the testing and tweaking will take place at Sandia’s Secure Scalable Microgrid Testbed , in Albuquerque. “We

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Fast, Efficient Neural Networks Copy Dragonfly Brains

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In my research at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, I study the brains of one of these larger insects, the dragonfly. Initially, I worked in Matlab simply because that was the coding environment I was already using. Consider the brains of those ants in your pantry. Each has some 250,000 neurons.

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