KREM

Before the Flame: How Washington state is reshaping its forests to survive the next wildfire

RONALD, Wash. — The sound of wildfire prevention isn't a fire engine siren. It's chainsaws, wood chippers and heavy machinery chewing through brush. Across Kittitas County, crews are removing smaller ...
IEEE

Wavelet-Based Bayesian Random Forest Classifier for High-Voltage Insulator Pollution Severity Detection: A Hybrid Approach

Abstract: The reliability of high-voltage insulators in power transmission systems is often compromised by pollution-induced flashovers, especially in coastal and industrial regions. Traditional ...
E&E

Lawmakers press Forest Service on use of weed killer

Democrats asked Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz to explain the agency’s heavy use of glyphosate, alleged to have links to cancer. A pair of Democratic lawmakers is pressing the Forest Service to ...
The New York Times

A Scientific Achievement That’s Totally Random

Encryption systems rely on “random” numbers, but conventional computers can’t generate them perfectly. New research shows that quantum physics can. By Alexander Nazaryan Researchers in Switzerland ...
IEEE

Federated Forest for Network Anomaly Detection

Abstract: This study presents a federated learning framework for anomaly detection in network traffic data, using Random Forest Classifier models trained on two datasets of clients with distinct ...