Newton’s Notes Now Online

Cambridge University has published 4,000 pages of manuscripts by Sir Isaac Newton, including his handwritten annotations. It’s the first stage of a digitization process that will eventually see documents from the likes of Charles Darwin and Ernest Rutherford put online. The Newton papers are, alongside Islamic manuscripts, the first documents to appear online as part […]


Computer Algorithm Plays Jukebox Jury

Even the likes of Simon Cowell would admit there’s no way to predict a surefire hit, but researchers in the UK believe they’ve found a formula that gives a pretty good insight. The research comes from the University of Bristol’s Intelligent Systems Algorithm and was as much about a computer’s ability to learn as it […]