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A research team at Duke University has developed a new AI framework that can uncover simple, understandable rules that govern ...

For financial services firms, data management – the process of ensuring underlying data is accessible, transparent, and accurate for end users, whatever the business need – is too often viewed as a ...

Deep learning models have shown great potential in predicting and engineering functional enzymes and proteins. Does this prowess extend to other fields of biology as well? Contrary to expectations, a ...

The two most common categories of process responses in industrial manufacturing processes are self-regulating and integrating. A self-regulating process response to a step input change is ...

I recently surveyed the on-site development of the control system for a large concentrated solar power station. This “first of a kind” facility offered many control challenges, such as balancing heat ...

Our perception of the world is inherently shaped by our own interests, traits, and experiences, but there are certain traits of complex thinkers who process the world differently from everyone else.

While having coffee with an old friend, we talked about our observations with companies lately. He talked about complacency. About people taking short cuts. This was a typical conversation I’ve had ...