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Documentation Academy Aims to Empower Open Source Newcomers
Canonical's Open Documentation Academy aims to help newcomers participate in the open source community, offering mentorship and…
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New Resource For Optical Chips
MIT researchers have developed a practical way to introduce second-order nonlinearities into silicon photonics, which could enable a new class of complex integrated...
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Voice Control Everywhere
In anticipation of the age of voice-controlled electronics, MIT researchers have built a special-purpose chip which could make speech recognition ubiquitous in...
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Optimizing Code
A new variation on a popular open-source compiler optimizes parallel code better than any commercial or open-source compiler, its developers say.
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Taming Data
An international team of computer scientists has developed Data Civilizer, a system that automatically finds connections among many different data tables and allows...
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Split-Second Data Mapping
Running on GPUs instead of CPUs, the MapD database-analytics platform queries and maps billions of data points in milliseconds.
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Growing a Network of Role Models
MIT senior Marlyse Reeves is building a supportive community of women in aerospace engineering.
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Making Big Data Manageable
Technique shrinks data sets while preserving their fundamental mathematical relationships.
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Learning Words From Pictures
A system that correlates recorded speech with images could lead to fully automated speech recognition.
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Computer Learns to Recognize Sounds By Watching Video
Machine-learning system doesn't require costly hand-annotated data.
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Toward X-Ray Movies
Low-power tabletop source of ultrashort electron beams could replace car-size laboratory devices.
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Making Computers Explain Themselves
Researchers at MIT have described a new way to train neural networks so that they provide not only predictions and classifications but rationales for their decisions...
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How Data Can Help Change the World
Speakers at last week's IDSS conference explored how data can be brought to bear on global challenges.
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Q&a: How Twitter Explains the 2016 Election
The Electome project compares the content of Twitter conversations with news media coverage of the 2016 U.S. Presidential campaign.
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Faster Parallel Computing
A new programming language called Milk delivers fourfold speedups on memory access problems common in the age of big data.
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3-D Printed Structures 'remember' Their Shapes
Heat-responsive materials may aid in controlled drug delivery and solar panel tracking.
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User-Friendly Language For Programming Efficient Simulations
A new programming language can speed up computer simulations 200-fold or reduce the code they require by 90 percent.
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Toward Practical Quantum Computers
Built-in optics could enable chips that use trapped ions as quantum bits.
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Carbon Nanotube 'stitches' Strengthen Composites
A method to reinforce composite materials could help make airplane frames lighter, more damage-resistant.
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Portable Device Produces Biopharmaceuticals On Demand
The portable microbioreactor system is designed to use microbes for manufacturing small amounts of vaccines and other therapies.
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Exploring Networks Efficiently
Analysis of ant colony behavior could yield better algorithms for network communication.
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