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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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Watson
David Ferrucci’s official title is “IBM Fellow and Leader of the Semantic Analysis and Integration Department at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center.” But to the...
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In Testimony, CISE AD Describes Research Contributions
Farnam Jahanian, the Assistant Director for CISE, testified at a U.S. House of Representatives hearing on May 25th. The hearing, convened jointly by the Subcommittee...
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Taking a Square Root With DNA
Some research news last Friday that’s been the subject of much chatter in the popular press: Caltech researchers Lulu Qian and
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NSF Seeking Proposals With
The NSF’s CISE and Biological Sciences (BIO) directorates have joined forces to seek interdisciplinary proposals that further the frontiers of both fields. In a...
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Health IT: Study Shows Telemedicine Improves Patient Outcomes
From this week’s IEEE Spectrum: According to doctors at the
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DoE, With India, Calling for Building Energy Efficiency Research
The U.S. Department of Energy — together with the Government of India — recently established a Joint Clean Energy Research and Development Center (JCERDC) “designed...
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The View of a Researcher:
As part of ScienceLives — an occasional NSF/LiveScience series that “puts scientists under the microscope to figure out what makes them tick” — CCC Council member...
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How Computation Has Transformed Practically Everything
As we’ve noted in this space before, MIT — as part of its 150th anniversary celebration — recently sponsored a series of
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Final Reminder: Applications for 2011-12 CIFellowships Due Tuesday
A final reminder that the
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Recapping the US Ignite Gigabit Applications Workshop
What would you do with a 1 Gbps, layer 2, programmable, sliceable network? That
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Get $1 Million
“How do you get people to buy more? That’s the $1 million question — literally.” RichRelevance and Overstock.com have partnered to offer the first-ever
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NIH Holding Crowdsourcing Workshop This Summer
A number of agencies within the NIH have come together to announce a one-day meeting on “Crowdsourcing: The Art and Science of Open Innovation,” to be held on the...
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Call for Visionary Papers to MIX-HS
The Computing Community Consortium is announcing today a Challenges and Visions Track at the First International Workshop on Managing Interoperability and compleXity...
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Reminder: Deadline for 2011-12 CIFellows Now 2 Weeks Away
A reminder that the deadline for applications to the 2011-12 Computing Innovation Fellows (CIFellows) Project is 5pm EDT on Tuesday, May 31. Graduates awarded the...
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Live Webcast: The U.S. Ignite Gigabit Applications Workshop
The
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Air Force Seeking
The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) has announced a new funding opportunity in “transformational computing for aerospace science and engineering”...
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