The US National Science Foundation (NSF) today announced an investment of more than $ 100 million to establish five institutes of artificial intelligence (AI), each of which will receive approximately $ 20 million over five years. One of these, the NSF AI Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI), …
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AP Photo / Cliff Owen The Federal Reserve is partnering with MIT researchers to build and test a digital currency, central banker Brainard said Thursday. The Fed hopes to gain a better understanding of digital currency, its use, and the potential implementation of a central bank digital currency, Brainard said …
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Pedestrians pass a digital sign announcing the latest rates for currency in Istanbul. Photographer: Kostas Tsironis / Bloomberg Kostas Tsironis / Bloomberg News The Federal Reserve announced Thursday that it is building and testing a hypothetical digital currency, equivalent to cash. The goal of the program is to improve the …
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At least twice in Earth’s history, almost the entire planet was locked in a layer of snow and ice. These dramatic “Snowball Earth” events occurred in rapid succession, somewhere around 700 million years ago, and evidence suggests that consecutive global glaciations set the stage for the subsequent explosion of complex, …
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While doing a postdoc about 15 years ago, Ila Fiete began looking for teaching jobs in computational neuroscience, a field that uses mathematical tools to investigate brain function. However, there were no advertised positions in theoretical or computational neuroscience at that time in the United States. “It wasn’t really a …
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