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Artificial intelligence (AI) simply means intelligence in machines, in contrast to natural intelligence found in humans and other natural organisms. Machine learning involves systems that automatically learn from the data they analyze and the results they obtain to improve their ability to work with that data in the future.

DOE explains... artificial intelligence

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New machine learning methods bring insights into how lithium ion batteries degrade, and show it’s more complicated than many thought.

Particles in a nickel-manganese-cobalt cathode are highlighted using a new computer vision algorithm.
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It combines human knowledge and expertise with the speed and efficiency of “smart” computer algorithms.

Accelerator Control Room
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The lab is responding to the coronavirus crisis by imaging disease-related biomolecules, developing standards for reliable coronavirus testing and enabling other essential research.

SARS-CoV-2
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Public lecture presented by Auralee Edelen

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Particle accelerators are used every day in a wide range of scientific, medical and industrial applications. But did you know that the task of...
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Particle accelerators are some of the most complicated machines in science.

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To keep up with an impending astronomical increase in data about our universe, astrophysicists turn to machine learning.

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Researchers from SLAC and around the world increasingly use machine learning to handle Big Data produced in modern experiments and to study some of...

Machine Learning in HEP
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Tais Gorkhover, Michael Kagan, Kazuhiro Terao and Joshua Turner will each receive $2.5 million for research that studies fundamental particles, nanoscale objects, quantum materials...

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SLAC and its collaborators are transforming the way new materials are discovered. In a new report, they combine artificial intelligence and accelerated experiments to...

SLAC postdoctoral scholar Fang Ren at an SSRL beamline
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Neural Networks for Neutrinos

Scientists are using cutting-edge machine-learning techniques to analyze physics data.

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As members of the lab’s Computer Science Division, they develop the tools needed to handle ginormous data volumes produced by the next generation of...

SLAC Computer Science Team