Nobel physics winner's pride at pioneering AI role - Phys.org
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Francis Halzen credits artificial intelligence for enabling his team to detect the Milky Way within neutrino data. He highlights how advanced neural networks have transformed the analysis of subatomic particles captured by the IceCube observatory.
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Add to Preferred Sources Francis Halzen said AI helped researchers 'see the Milky Way' in their data on neutrinos. Francis Halzen, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, spoke with pride on Wednesday about his early promotion of artificial intelligence in his research on neutrinos.
Halzen, 82, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was visiting the city of Turin in northern Italy and spoke to reporters there a day after the Nobel announcement.
The U.S.–Belgian physicist is the mind behind the IceCube neutrino observatory , made up of 5,484 optical modules used as sensors deep in the Antarctic ice.
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