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Continuing a tradition it has maintained for over thirty years, the Québec Science team has named its top ten scientific discoveries of the year.
The Québec Science jury selected Professors Roberto Morandotti and Tiago Falk’s work for it 31st Edition of the Discoveries of the Year. Photo : INRS
The Québec Science jury selected Professors Roberto Morandotti and Tiago Falk’s work on improving artificial intelligence through optics. Until February 15, 2024, the public is invited to vote for the most significant discovery of the year!
This eagerly anticipated award in the scientific community starts the year off with an interesting retrospective on the discoveries that have been published in Quebec.
The two INRS professors studied the capacity of optics, and more specifically photonics, to mimic the properties of an artificial intelligence system based on deep neural networks. Implementing the concepts of the discovery could, for example, make it possible to create telecommunications systems that are faster, safer, more cost-effective, and more sustainable than those currently available, all while providing faster home Internet.
The team researching the discovery included PhD students Bennet Fischer, Mario Chemnitz, Yi Zhu, Nicolas Perron, Piotr Roztocki, Benjamin MacLellan, Luigi Di Lauro, A. Aadhi, and Cristina Rimoldi.
Read the article Des machines apprenantes moins gourmands en énergie
(Pierre Sormany, Québec Science, January 2024)
About the paper
The paper “Neuromorphic Computing via Fission-based Broadband Frequency Generation” was published in Advanced Science, Volume 10, Issue 35 in December 2023 by Bennet Fischer, Mario Chemnitz, Yi Zhu, Nicolas Perron, Piotr Roztocki, Benjamin MacLellan, Luigi Di Lauro, A. Aadhi, Cristina Rimoldi, Tiago H. Falk, and Roberto Morandotti. DOI: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/advs.202303835
The team’s work received financial support from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Canada Research Chair in Smart Photonics, and INRS.
