10.28.2009
by Rebecca Day
You wouldn’t fly on a commercial jet plane unless you were confident that the pilot had logged some serious time in a flight simulator, preparing for every eventuality. Someday it may be just as inconceivable to undergo delicate surgery without assurances that your doctor has taken a few practice runs on a three-dimensional, [...]

BY LOUIS BERGERON AND STEPHANIE KENITZER

Wind farms can be built in mountainous regions, such as in Spain (above), or placed offshore like the one at Middelgrunden (other photo), near Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Wind farms can be built in mountainous regions, such as in Spain (other photo), or placed offshore like the one at [...]

When Stanford students come back to school this month after a hot summer, they’ll be in the ideal frame of mind to consider a new engineering degree that is rare, if not unique, in the United States: the atmosphere and energy major.
The interdisciplinary undergraduate program is being launched as governments and businesses around the world [...]

Much as human intuition is far better than artificial intelligence in making sense of the world, people are far better at imagining thinking machines than actually making them. Now a large, ambitious team of AI researchers has launched a long-term research campaign to narrow both [...]