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Data-Driven Computational Mechanics is a novel computing paradigm that enables the transition from standard data-starved approaches to modern data-rich approaches. At this early stage of development, one can distinguish two mainstream…
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Superconducting quantum circuit is a promising system for building quantum computer. With this system we demonstrate the universal quantum computations, including the preparing of initial states, the single-qubit operations, the two-qubit…
This paper presents the principal challenges and opportunities associated with computational biomechanics research. The underlying cognitive control involved in the process of human motion is inherently complex, dynamic, multidimensional,…
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Machine learning has found its way into almost every area of science and engineering, and we are only at the beginning of its exploration across fields. Being a popular, versatile and powerful framework, machine learning has proven most…
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The traditional approach for studying the physics of the strong interactions employs a basic computational construct originally proposed by Wilson in the 1970s. Over the years additional enhancements have been added to this formulation to…
Memory-centric computing aims to enable computation capability in and near all places where data is generated and stored. As such, it can greatly reduce the large negative performance and energy impact of data access and data movement, by…