Shane stumbled on the idea of teaching an algorithm to learn to create and name colors after reading a conversation on Twitter about whether colors could be invented by code. She learned Sherwin ...

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(Adriana Usero | The Washington Post) Katie Bouman was a MIT postdoctoral student when she led a team that designed one of the algorithms that led to capturing the first images of a black hole.