Forecasting Waves with Deep Learning ENGINEERING.com

The ocean is indeed a strange place, but Whitman might not have found it quite so confounding if he'd had access to deep learning. This technology is allowing machines to do everything from disease diagnosis to musical composition to playing video games. Now, a team of scientists and engineers at the IBM Research lab in Dublin have set deep learning on that harshest of mistresses: the sea. Their deep-learning framework for simulating ocean waves enables real-time wave condition forecasts for a fraction of the traditional computational cost. How are wave forecasts traditionally calculated?