Peter Shor didn’t set out to break the internet. But an algorithm he developed in the mid-1990s threatened to do just that. In a landmark paper, Shor showed how a hypothetical computer that exploited ...
Tuesday, October 28: Often researchers are faced with data in very high dimensions (e.g. too many predictors for a regression model), or must come up with a rule to classify data in pre-determined ...
For years, scientists have known that the anti-aging hormone klotho, infusions of young blood, and exercise each improve brain function in older mice. But they didn’t know why. Now, two UC San ...