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From automata to algorithms: How the first computer was imagined

Long before modern computers existed, scientists and philosophers wondered whether machines could imitate human reasoning. This video traces the evolution of that idea from Aristotle’s logic and ...
IEEE

Generating Adversarial Examples for 3D Point Clouds Using Evolutionary Algorithms

Abstract: We propose a general attack framework based on evolutionary algorithms to quickly and efficiently generate low-perturbation adversarial samples for 3D point cloud data. Specifically, we ...
IEEE

Optimal Inverse Design Based on Memetic Algorithms—Part II: Examples and Properties

Abstract: Optimal inverse design, including topology optimization and evaluation of fundamental bounds on performance, which was introduced in Part 1, is applied to various antenna design problems. A ...
TechCrunch

The great computer science exodus (and where students are going instead)

Something strange happened at University of California campuses this fall. For the first time since the dot-com crash, computer science enrollment dropped. System-wide, it fell 6% last year after ...