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Founded in 1944, the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science develops philanthropic support for the Weizmann Institute in Israel, and advances its mission of science for the future of humanity.
Aug 14, 2018...
An ultrasound electrocardiogram
Utrasound equipment has shrunk in both size and price in recent years – so much so that it is now standard in hospitals and ... Read more
Mar 13, 2013...
Prof. Shafi Goldwasser
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—March 13, 2013—The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) today announced that Prof. Shafrira (Shafi) Goldwasser ... Read more
https://weizmann-usa.org/news-media/news-releases/less-than-meets-the-eye/
Mar 07, 2016... We do not merely recognize objects – our brain is so good at this task that we can automatically supply the concept of a cup when shown a photo of a curved hand ... Read more
Apr 24, 2018...
Kevin Hong for Quanta Magazine
A paper posted online in January takes theoretical computer scientists halfway toward proving one of the biggest conjectures ... Read more
https://weizmann-usa.org/news-media/in-the-news/could-quantum-computing-be-the-end-of-free-will/
Jun 30, 2018...
Yusuf Ahmad / Reuters
Faster, more powerful computing has the potential to revolutionize fields from drug delivery to freight transportation. But some are ... Read more
Feb 25, 2019... Machine learning is being applied to an ever-widening variety of fields, including biology and chemistry, and is becoming increasingly crucial to Israel’s high- ... Read more
Dec 10, 2019... A “river” of electrons flowing in a graphene channel. The viscosity generated by the repulsion between electrons (red balls) causes them to flow with a paraboli ... Read more
https://weizmann-usa.org/news-media/in-the-news/algo-vision-a-glimpse-into-the-future/
Jun 15, 2017... For humans, seeing really is believing. That’s probably because sight is the most sophisticated of all the senses. So sophisticated, in fact, that 40 per cent o ... Read more
Oct 10, 2017...
Shafi Goldwasser, the new director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing (Photo by Ronen Goldman).
Turing Award-winning computer scientist Sh ... Read more
Jun 08, 2013... Israel is now one of the world's tech powerhouses, second only to Silicon Valley as a hub for startups, but it wasn't always this way. Today, in honour of the ... Read more
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