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Schematic representation of a processor for matrix multiplications that runs on light. Credit: University of Oxford

Light-based processors boost machine-learning processing

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An international team of scientists have developed a photonic processor that uses rays of light inside silicon chips to process information much faster than conventional electronic chips. Published in Nature, the breakthrough study was carried out by scientists from EPFL, the Universities of Oxford, Münster, Exeter, Pittsburgh, and IBM Research – Zurich.

EPFL Associate Professor Lenka Zdeborová © 2021 EPFL

It's a distinguished list including Albert Einstein, I'm very humbled

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EPFL Associate Professor Lenka Zdeborová gives the prestigious 2021 Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecture, posing the question of which computational problems are actually tractable with computers, which are not, and what is the theory behind this?

Prof. Ch. Theiler in front of TCV © Alain Herzog, 2020

2020 Nuclear Fusion journal award to Prof. Christian Theiler

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Prof. Christian Theiler received the IAEA's Nuclear Fusion Journal Award 2020 for his paper presenting ‘Results from recent detachment experiments in alternative divertor configurations on TCV’.

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