Commission opens access to EU supercomputers to speed up artificial intelligence development

This article is published in association with United Nations.This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. Today the Commission and the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) committed to open and widen access to the EU’s world-class supercomputing resources for European artificial intelligence (AI) start-ups, SMEs and the broader AI community as part of the EU AI Start-Up Initiative. To […]

A computer scientist explains why AI has its limits

This article is published in association with United Nations.This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Jie Wang, Professor of Computer Science, UMass Lowell Empowered by artificial intelligence technologies, computers today can engage in convincing conversations with people, compose songs, paint paintings, play chess and go, and diagnose diseases, to name just a few examples […]

Quantum leap: why the next wave of computers will change the world

This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Andreas Baumhof, Vice President Quantum Technologies, QuintessenceLabs In 1936, Alan Turing proposed the Turing machine, which became the foundational reference point for theories about computing and computers. Around the same time, Konrad Zuse invented the Z1 computer, considered to […]

High-technology manufacturing saves the EU industry

According to a study by Eurostat, the EU statistical service, high and medium technology industries saved the manufacturing sector from a much larger fall during the difficult crisis years from 2008 until 2010. Still, the industrial sector has not yet fully recovered and in January 2013 compared to December 2012, seasonally  adjusted overall industrial production fell […]
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