Twenty six hundred years ago, a band of Judahite soldiers kept watch on their kingdom's southern border in the final days before Jerusalem was sacked by Nebuchadnezzar. They left behind numerous inscriptions--and now, a groundbreaking digital analysis has revealed how many writers penned them. The research and innovative technology behind it stand to teach us about the origins of the Bible itself. "It's well understood that the Bible was not composed in real time but was probably written and edited later," Arie Shaus, a mathematician at Tel Aviv University told Gizmodo. "The question is, when exactly?" Shaus is one of several mathematicians and archaeologists trying to broach that question in a radical manner: by using machine learning tools to determine how many people were literate in ancient times.

IP Cores Designed for HSA Historically GPT has developed IP specifically for the China market. The company recently announced a range of new IP licensing offerings along with an enhanced geographical licensing program. With the company-wide adoption of HSA standards, GPT now licenses IP worldwide. All GPT processors include HSA support and the company is now offering world-class HSA-enabled processors to its customers. The HSA enabled IP core which is sampling now in silicon is a first implementation of GPT's 3-in-1 Unity architecture designed for multidimensional signal processing including image and video processing.

The construction of efficient and effective decision trees remains a key topic in machine learning because of their simplicity and flexibility. A lot of heuristic algorithms have been proposed to construct near-optimal decision trees. ID3, C4.5 and CART are classical decision tree algorithms and the split criteria they used are Shannon entropy, Gain Ratio and Gini index respectively. All the split criteria seem to be independent, actually, they can be unified in a Tsallis entropy framework. Tsallis entropy is a generalization of Shannon entropy and provides a new approach to enhance decision trees' performance with an adjustable parameter $q$. In this paper, a Tsallis Entropy Criterion (TEC) algorithm is proposed to unify Shannon entropy, Gain Ratio and Gini index, which generalizes the split criteria of decision trees. More importantly, we reveal the relations between Tsallis entropy with different $q$ and other split criteria. Experimental results on UCI data sets indicate that the TEC algorithm achieves statistically significant improvement over the classical algorithms.

Watson for Oncology analyzes patient medical records, along with millions of pages of articles and textbooks, to make treatment recommendations. In 2011, a supercomputer won 1 million on Jeopardy! In 2016, that same supercomputer is tackling a challenge quantified not in millions of dollars but in millions of cancer patients. The goal is to use Watson's natural language processing to mine the medical literature and a patient's records to provide treatment advice. And this month the Watson computer system is drastically expanding its reach -- from one hospital in Thailand to six in India and a planned 21 more in China.

Germany's Interior Minister says he wants to introduce facial recognition software at train stations and airports to help identify suspects following two attacks in the country last month. In a report published on Sunday in the German newspaper Bild am Sonntag, Thomas de Maiziere said internet software was able to determine whether persons shown in photographs were celebrities or politicians. "I would like to use this kind of facial recognition technology in video cameras at airports and train stations. Then, if a suspect appears and is recognised, it will show up in the system," he told the paper. Germany's Thomas de Maiziere takes aim at face veils He said a similar system was already being tested for unattended luggage, which the camera reports after a certain number of minutes.

DNA Database Offers Disease Insights A giant DNA database that pulled data from over 60,000 people from diverse parts of the world is helping scientists pinpoint the causes of disease. Analyzing the huge amount of DNA allowed an international team of researchers to newly identify 3,000 genes that may cause disease. They were also able to conclude that 160 genetic mutations previously thought to be connected to disease are in fact harmless. The researchers focused on a number of different diseases ranging from muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis to some types of heart disease. Self-Driving Uber Fleet Arriving in Pittsburgh This month, the ride-sharing company Uber will unleash a new fleet of self-driving cars in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Concrete is one of the most prevalent materials in our built environment, but it's hasn't seen much innovation. That's why it's so exciting that a team of Singapore researchers developed a new flexible concrete that's lighter and tougher than existing mixtures. In other design news, a developer in Germany is building the world's largest passive housing complex with a total of 162 units. Stanford researchers created a tiny black rectangle that uses sunlight to purify water in minutes instead of hours. In a stunning example of biomimicry this week, scientists studied squids to invent a high-tech fabric that repair itself and neutralizes toxins.

The global market for intelligent machines is set to more than triple to 153 billion by 2020, says Bank of America Corp.'s Merrill Lynch, which has pinpointed companies particularly poised to ride the robotics wave. "Robots and AI are becoming an integral part of our daily lives as providers of labor, mobility, safety, convenience, and entertainment," strategists in London led by Beijia Ma wrote in a note dated Nov. 3. "Demographics, energy efficiency, productivity, urbanization, and wage inflation suggest long-term sustained growth." Bank of America expects robots to be performing 45% of manufacturing tasks by 2025, versus 10 percent today. Driven by China, 2014 was the third consecutive year for record sales of robots worldwide -- a jump of 29 percent, BofA said.

Visualise and explore the work of 44,579 superstar Researchers from 8,437 Research Institutions in 118 countries on every sport in the Olympics 2016 Research Dashboard by wizdom.ai, the world's largest research knowledge graph powered by big data analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence. With all eyes set on the Rio Olympics 2016, the world witnesses the greatest display of human strength, endurance, dexterity and performance by participants from across the globe. Everyday over the course of the two weeks, over 11,400 athletes compete for the gold medal in their game. They have undertaken intensive training for months and years to reach the epitome of physical fitness and to optimise their performance, making every millisecond count. Backing the Olympians that make it to the podium in every field, all along through their training there are thousands of researchers around the world who have extensively studied the games to raise the bar for human performance.

A day in the life of a Star Citizen!! My Artificial Intelligence and I grow a special bond while we are away on a special retrieval mission. JavaScript is currently disabled, this site works much better if youenable JavaScript in your browser. An exhibition dedicated to art stars Andy Warhol and Ai Weiwei guarantees a visual and conceptual feast. But two other qualities make "Andy Warhol/ Ai Weiwei" one of the finest exhibitions The Andy Warhol Museum has mounted in its illustrious 22 years.