Training computers to find patterns in massive datasets, from medicine to art history
Monday, August 1, 2016 - 10:11
in Paleontology & Archaeology
It takes a well-trained eye to spot an irregular heartbeat in the peaks and valleys of an electrocardiogram. The same goes for identifying an extinct ape from a single fossilized tooth, or telling an original van Gogh from a fake. But in recent years, applied mathematician Ingrid Daubechies has been training computers to churn through […]