Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering

Cultivating Data-Driven Approaches with Plant Science

Launched this winter, the Data-Driven Plant Science course bridges experimental biology with embedded sensing, bioinformatics, and machine learning.
Tech Xplore

LLMs help robots understand vague instructions and focus on key details

Imagine working at a warehouse or office sometime in the near future, and you're asked to help a new trainee learn the basics ...

LLMs believe false statements even after explicit warnings that they’re false

New research on so-called “negation neglect” finds that LLMs in a roughly analogous situation don’t behave that way. They ...
Nature

Move over, AlphaFold: open-source model predicts shape of 1 billion proteins

The new open-source atlas, generated by an AI tool called ESMFold2, vastly increases the known protein universe.
Visual Studio Magazine

Slammed by Copilot Usage-Based Billing on Day 1, Facing $180 Bill for June

A journalist using GitHub Copilot Pro details how a broken editorial workflow on day one of usage-based billing led to runaway token consumption, a projected $180 monthly bill, and practical tactics ...
Communications of the ACM

I Spent a Year Asking AI to Solve Math’s Hardest Problem. Here’s What Happened

P vs. NP asks: are these two classes actually the same? If P = NP, then every “hard” problem is secretly fast to solve; we ...