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To Build Truly Intelligent Machines, Teach Them Cause and Effect

By Kevin Hartnett
May 15, 2018
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Judea Pearl, a pioneering figure in artificial intelligence, argues that AI has been stuck in a decades-long rut. His prescription for progress? Teach machines to understand the question why.

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A Revealer of Secrets in the Data of Life and the Universe

By Natalie Wolchover
April 11, 2018
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The statistician Donald Richards lives to uncover subtle patterns hiding in real-world data.

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In Search of God’s Perfect Proofs

By Erica Klarreich
March 19, 2018
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The mathematicians Günter Ziegler and Martin Aigner have spent the past 20 years collecting some of the most beautiful proofs in mathematics.

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A Statistical Search for Genomic Truths

By Jordana Cepelewicz
February 27, 2018
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The computer scientist Barbara Engelhardt develops machine-learning models and methods to scour human genomes for the elusive causes and mechanisms of disease.

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The Future of Quantum Computing

The Argument Against Quantum Computers

By Katia Moskvitch
February 7, 2018
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The mathematician Gil Kalai believes that quantum computers can’t possibly work, even in principle.

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In Birds’ Songs, Brains and Genes, He Finds Clues to Speech

By Jordana Cepelewicz
January 30, 2018
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The neuroscientist Erich Jarvis found that songbirds’ vocal skills and humans’ spoken language are both rooted in neural pathways for controlling learned movements.

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A Neurobiologist Thinks Big — and Small

By Elizabeth Preston
January 18, 2018
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By developing new tools for visualizing subcellular structure and activity in molecular detail, Ed Boyden advances on his goal of understanding how the brain works.

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In Praise of Simple Problems

By Kevin Hartnett
January 9, 2018
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The mathematician Richard Schwartz finds the hidden depth lurking in simple mathematical puzzles.

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A Mathematician Who Decodes the Patterns Stamped Out by Life

By Joshua Sokol
December 20, 2017
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Corina Tarnita deciphers bizarre patterns in the soil created by competing life-forms.


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