I sat down with Julian Gollop, creator of X-COM, and Hristo Petkov, Game Director for Frosthaven, and discussed some of the ...

Studying the epic journey of the iconic jumping plumber can lead to new insights in theoretical computer science—and may help ...

Abstract: Semantic segmentation annotation helps train computer vision based Artificial Intelligence models where each image pixel is assigned to a specific object class. The model developers try to ...

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This is the code appendix for the paper TaylorShift: Shifting the Complexity of Self-Attention from Squared to Linear (and Back) using Taylor-Softmax. For now, we can only include the code for the ...

One of the highlights of my first three years as a literature professor at MIT—and indeed, of my 15-year career as an educator—has been the recent discovery that some of my students, past and present, ...

As a child of the 1990s, I couldn’t avoid the game-turned-best-seller Tetris. Launched in 1984 by Russian programmer Alexey Pajitnov, Tetris quickly became a blockbuster and has had hundreds of ...

Abstract: Semantic segmentation is a fundamental task in computer vision. In multi-class scenarios, the abundance of categories, feature similarity across classes, class imbalance, and the complexity ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. They say a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, but for computer scientists, two birds in a hole are better still. That’s because ...

Right now, quantum computers are small and error-prone compared to where they’ll likely be in a few years. Even within those limitations, however, there have been regular claims that the hardware can ...