Berkeley Lab Team Wins Data-Driven Scavenger Hunt for Simulated Nuclear Materials
Monday, July 9, 2018 - 10:30
in Physics & Chemistry
Competing in a fictitious high-stakes scenario, a group of scientists at Berkeley Lab bested two dozen other teams in a months-long, data-driven scavenger hunt for simulated radioactive materials in a virtual urban environment. The goal of this event was both to improve the detection methods that could be applied to actual threats involving nuclear materials, and to create a platform to virtually vet out these methods.