by Qiang Cui Back in 2016 you might have read about a computer called AlphaGo that beat some of the best Go players in the world (I even wrote a blog post about it). At …
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How is a shopping cart like a nanoparticle? What coarse-grained molecular models can show us about nano-bio interactions
by Qiang Cui Imagine you work at a grocery store and you need to figure out how many shopping carts will fit in a certain space. You know that each shopping cart is 33 inches …
What is Machine Learning and How is it Changing Physical Chemistry and Materials Science?
by Qiang Cui When I talk about artificial intelligence (AI), the usual images that come to mind are from fiction: Hal from 2001: A Space Odyssey, the cyborg from The Terminator, or perhaps the gloomy …
The Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) and the CSN
by Qiang Cui You’ve probably heard of the Human Genome Project (HGP), which was a collaborative international research program to map and understand all the genes of human beings. The HGP was declared complete in …