Physical Sciences/Engineering
Making decisions simple
Although the initial internet search engines date back to the early 1990s, it was not until 1998 that Google Search was made available to the public. In the ensuing couple of decades the Internet has grown from around 150 million users to over 3.7 billion, and search engines have become an integral part of our lives, such that we now take them for granted.
In fact, these days the very name Google has become the verb used to describe an online search.
Now imagine a technology that could tackle another class of problems in something like the same way. Well, the ‘Solve Engine’ developed by Satalia, a spinout company from the Department of Computer Science at UCL, might soon be doing just that for us.