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Complex problems like sorting supply chain routes, traffic systems in cities or designing optimized chemical compounds, require “discovery machines”, super computers combining neuromorphic architectures with quantum mechanical tunneling. (Image: Shutterstock)

How to build a discovery machine

Engineers at Washington University in St. Louis have mapped out further details for how to create “discovery machines” for solving problems with potentially trillions of complicating factors.

05.11.2026

Class Acts: Ruiqi Wang

Wang's passion for machine-learning led him to help develop the "test kitchen."

05.11.2026

Nathan Jacobs in McKelvey Engineering was part of a collaboration of academic and industry researchers who developed a model of every agricultural field boundary worldwide. (Credit: Taylor Geospatial)

Boundaries of agricultural fields worldwide now publicly available

Nathan Jacobs, collaborators launch model that could transform agriculture, food security.

05.05.2026

McKelvey Engineering students, alumni win NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

Prestigious program supports graduate students with high potential to impact scientific innovation.

04.30.2026

WashU is launching a new universitywide initiative called +AI, led by Provost Mark West. (Credit: Shutterstock)

McKelvey Engineering faculty selected for AI Curriculum Corps

Faculty to participate in summer program to integrate or critically examine AI in classroom.

04.29.2026

New generative AI models can make finding gaps in cyber security easier, potentially enabling more hacking threats. But the same models also enable easier security patching. (Credit: Shutterstock)

WashU Expert: Managing Mythos

Ning Zhang explains what people should know about easy-to-use artificial intelligence (AI) software tools.

04.29.2026

McKelvey Engineering students build new aerospace design team

WashU VTOL focuses on autonomous vertical take-off and landing aircraft.

04.21.2026

Three McKelvey faculty elected to AAAS

Yixin Chen, Lori Setton and Joshua Yuan were among eleven WashU faculty members elected.

03.30.2026

WashU Data Science Network making connections across campus

Interdisciplinary student group provides hands-on data science experience.

03.25.2026