Friendship is elusive. It also keeps you young. Here are 7 ways to foster it.

New research shows that social connection "literally slows down your biological aging at a cellular level." If only we could ...
中国日报网

Female scientist blends empathy and ethics in algorithms

Li Yingzhen, associate professor at Imperial College's Department of Computing, speaks at the UK Women in AI Summit organized by the China-Britain Artificial Intelligence Association in London last ...
IEEE

MPDA: A Massively Parallel Learning and Dependency-Aware Scheduling Algorithm for Data Processing Clusters

Abstract: In the era of large-scale machine learning, large-scale clusters are extensively used for data processing jobs. However, the state-of-the-art heuristic-based and Deep Reinforcement Learning ...
International Monetary Fund

A Crisis Like No Other, An Uncertain Recovery

Global growth is projected at –4.9 percent in 2020, 1.9 percentage points below the April 2020 World Economic Outlook (WEO) forecast. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a more negative impact on activity ...
IEEE

A Reinforcement-Learning-Enhanced Knowledge-Guided Genetic Algorithm for Flexible Job-Shop Scheduling Problems With Lot Streaming

Abstract: A flexible job-shop scheduling problem with lot streaming (FJSP-LS) is an extension of flexible job-shop scheduling problems (FJSPs). In it, jobs are allowed to be split into multiple ...
The Lancet

The human crisis in cancer: a Lancet Oncology Commission

Amid unprecedented scientific progress in oncology, a growing body of evidence reveals a parallel and profound crisis in the ...
The New York Times

U.S. Federal Budget

Until this month, Radio Free Asia had successfully resisted Trump officials who had tried to render it obsolete. By Minho Kim Senate Republicans cited a call by the American Federation of Government ...