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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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Godel Prize 2017 Call
The call for nomination for the 2017 Godel Prize is up. The call is available at http://madhu.seas.harvard.edu/Announce/Goedel2017CFN.html and will be up on the...
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Would you eat a 3-D printed pizza?
Could you imagine serving a 3-D printed turkey for Christmas lunch? Or munching on a 3-D printed pizza for an afternoon snack?
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Canada launches online hotline to report bad drone drivers
Expecting a spike in drone sales for Christmas, Canada's transportation ministry on Wednesday launched an online hotline to report bad drone pilots.
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Knuth Prize 2017 Call
The call is going out for the 2017 Knuth Prize. The call will be up on the SIGACT Web page shortly, but until it shows up there here's a pdf. Key date: deadline...
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Australia and France sign deal to build 12 submarines
Australia and France signed an agreement Tuesday to build the world's largest diesel-electric submarines in the Australian industrial town of Adelaide.
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MH370 officials: Crash site could be north of search area
A team of international investigators hunting for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 said Tuesday it has concluded the plane is unlikely to be found in a stretch...
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Combatting retail fraud using a simulator
Every year the retail industry lose billions of dollars to fraud in the US alone. To complicate the matter research in the field has been obstructed due to the...
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Tokenization
Now that we can handle characters, let’s move on to words. Continue reading on Query Understanding »
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FBI's DNA profiles to include more data, making them even more powerful at solving cases
As the new year approaches, forensic labs across the country are gearing up for a big change in the way they generate DNA profiles, the genetic fingerprints so...
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Lower cost of LEDs reduce profitability for manufacturing landscape
Although residential and commercial industries are widely adopting energy-efficient light emitting diodes (LEDs), the drop in LED prices is driving away manufacturers...
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Malawi drone test centre to help with healthcare, disasters
Malawi on Thursday launched Africa's first drone-testing corridor as developing countries explore how drones could be used during humanitarian crises such as floods...
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Tackling the ethical challenges of big data
An authority on social data, Susan Etlinger argues we need to apply critical thinking and exercise caution as we enter the age of "data ubiquity."
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Advances in transport infrastructure technology are quickly changing the landscape
Sydney's transport system, long troubled by disjointed connections between bus, rail and ferry, should now be focused on delivering customised journeys that combine...
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Apple's Jobs loses out in Paris street name vote
Steve Jobs may have been a technological revolutionary, but his legacy will not be remembered in a Paris street name.
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I feel strongly that we should have non-exclusive ownership of our raw behavioral data — that’s…
But I’m not convinced that we should have any inherent rights to inferences that companies make from observing our behavior. Especially if… Continue reading on...
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Your Science T-Shirt Doesn’t Fly
A few months ago Science sent many people a sample of the magazine and a solicitation to subscribe. As seems to be the manner in which these things are done, there...
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Privatizing Our Past
The essence of machine learning is learning from data. Since we can only learn from past data, machine learning uses our knowledge of the… Continue reading on ...
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