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The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory has been named to the inaugural Fast Company Best Workplaces for Innovators list.

In 1987, James Spall, a statistician at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, developed the Simultaneous Perturbation Stochastic Approximation algorithm, which has been widely used to optimize systems with multiple unknown parameters, including aircraft and robotic control systems. Three decades later, APL researchers are proving how Spall’s method can drastically improve the computational accuracy of certain types of today’s quantum processors.

Three principal investigators from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory were among researchers from across the Johns Hopkins enterprise to earn funding in the fifth round of the JHU Discovery Awards program.

Reconnaissance blind chess (RBC), invented by APL researchers, is a powerful twist on chess that incorporates uncertainty and sensing: players cannot see the positions of their opponent’s pieces, except through private sensing actions.

The Plasma Instrument for Magnetic Sounding (PIMS), built by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, will measure the plasmas, or electrically charged gasses, in Europa’s ionosphere and Jupiter’s magnetosphere.

Timothy J. Collins, chief government relations officer at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, has been named president of Walsh University.

The official event summary for the inaugural National Health Symposium, held March 5–6 at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, is available.

It sounds like science fiction: fly a robotic rotorcraft over the dunes of an alien moon. But NASA is giving a team led by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory the opportunity to turn this idea into space exploration reality.

With a recent award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), researchers from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory will develop a brain-machine interface that will enable the control of complex systems at the speed of thought.