Artificial Intelligence Helps Find New Fast Radio Bursts PRESS RELEASE DATE September 10, 2018 CONTACT Rebecca McDonald Director of Communications SETI Institute rmcdonald@SETI.org 650-960-4526 Credit: Breakthrough Listen / Danielle Futselaar Machine...
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Artificial Intelligence Helps Find New Fast Radio Bursts PRESS RELEASE DATE September 10, 2018 CONTACT Rebecca McDonald Director of Communications SETI Institute rmcdonald@SETI.org 650-960-4526 Credit: Breakthrough Listen / Danielle Futselaar Machine learning algorithms applied to data from the Green Bank Telescope find new pulses from the mysterious repeating source FRB 121102. New de- tections mark the first time that machine learning techniques have been used to directly detect a fast radio transient. Successful application of machine learning for signal detection promises to open up new avenues for identifying signals from extraterrestrial intelligence. September 10, 2018 – Mountain View, CA – Researchers at Breakthrough Listen – the initiative to find signs of intelligent life in the universe – have applied machine learning techniques to detect 72 new fast radio bursts emanating from the “repeat- er” FRB 121102. Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are bright pulses of radio emission, just
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