The Limits of Computer Decision-Making: Where Human Judgment Still MattersIn the 1940s, mathematicians and engineers set out to build machines that could make critical decisions under uncertainty. Within a decade, they had invented tools that not only launched modern computer science but quietly rewrote what it means for a human being to make a "rational" choice.Benjamin Recht, a professor ...
Tsunami early warning systems today rely on models that can take precious minutes to run - minutes that coastal communities don't have. New research is changing that by building a "digital twin" of the earth's crust, one that can simulate the physics of an earthquake and its resulting tsunami in ...
