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Advanced Computational Tools to Help Doctors Make Sense of Their Patients' DNA
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Advanced Computational Tools to Help Doctors Make Sense of Their Patients' DNA

Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University say advanced computational tools will be the key to a new research project that, if successful, could enable doctors...

Marc Andreessen: Predictions For 2012 (and Beyond)
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Marc Andreessen: Predictions For 2012 (and Beyond)

Marc Andreessen's view of the world boils down to software.

The Search For Analysts to Make Sense of 'big Data'
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The Search For Analysts to Make Sense of 'big Data'

Businesses keep vast troves of data about things like online shopping behavior, or millions of changes in weather patterns, or trillions of financial transactions—information...

Picture This: Better Decisions Through Data Visualization
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Picture This: Better Decisions Through Data Visualization

Can you visualize data? That’s the question raised by the Data Visualization Student Challenge, a U.S. Department of Transportation competition that invited college...

Cloud Centers Bring High-Tech Flash but Not Many Jobs to Beaten-Down Towns
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Cloud Centers Bring High-Tech Flash but Not Many Jobs to Beaten-Down Towns

Here in this once-thriving town of furniture makers and textile mills, where Main Street businesses have vanished, nearby fast-food joints have closed and unemployment...

Software Helps FBI Crack International Cybercrime Case
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Software Helps FBI Crack International Cybercrime Case

Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham helped the FBI and NASA's Office of Inspector General identify seven cybercriminals accused of hacking...

­ic 'cyber-Commons' Wall Pops with 3-D Imagery
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­ic 'cyber-Commons' Wall Pops with 3-D Imagery

University of Illinois at Chicago's Electronic Visualization Laboratory has added a third dimension to its information-sharing "Cyber-Commons" tiled display wall...

Web Search Technology to Aid Researchers Using Oral Histories
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Web Search Technology to Aid Researchers Using Oral Histories

Web-based technology developed at University of Kentucky Libraries allows researchers to pinpoint specific terms within recorded oral history interviews making...

Instant Health Checks For Buildings and Bridges
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Instant Health Checks For Buildings and Bridges

During 2011's deadly onslaught of earthquakes, floods and tornadoes, countless buildings had to be evacuated while workers checked to make sure they were stable...

Robot Biologist Solves Complex Problem from Scratch
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Robot Biologist Solves Complex Problem from Scratch

A team of scientists has taken a major step toward developing robot biologists. They have shown that their system, the Automated Biology Explorer, can solve a complicated...

High-Tech and Traditional Techniques ­sed to Study Dinosaur Tracks
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High-Tech and Traditional Techniques ­sed to Study Dinosaur Tracks

The discovery of a large field of dinosaur tracks in Arkansas has researchers busy using cutting-edge technology and traditional techniques to learn all that they...

Prepare to Fill One of 1.5 Million Data-Savvy Manager Jobs
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Prepare to Fill One of 1.5 Million Data-Savvy Manager Jobs

By 2018 the United States faces a shortage of 140,000 to 190,000 people with deep analytical skills as well as 1.5 million managers and analysts to analyze big...

Researchers ­se Text, Computers to Spot ­nique Language of Psychopathic Killers
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Researchers ­se Text, Computers to Spot ­nique Language of Psychopathic Killers

Using computerized text analysis, Cornell University Computing and Information Science Professor Jeff Hancock found that psychopathic murderers make identifiable...

New Data-Mining Effort Launched to Study Mental Disorders
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New Data-Mining Effort Launched to Study Mental Disorders

Chicago will be home to a new $13.75 million project that will apply data mining methods to better understand the genetic and environmental factors behind neuropsychiatric...

How Rapidly Expanding Storage Spurs Innovation
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How Rapidly Expanding Storage Spurs Innovation

Moore's Law gets all the press. It's easy to present even to non-technical readers, and the way it's most often expressed is something like, "computers double...

'big Data' Means Business Needs Mathematicians
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'big Data' Means Business Needs Mathematicians

The proliferation of ways to measure things—point-of-service terminals, Web analytics, geographic and temporal records, even semantic information—means businesses...

Stanford Opens Some Information Technology Courses to the World
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Stanford Opens Some Information Technology Courses to the World

As part of a dramatic effort to expand its IT offerings to a global audience, Stanford University will be offering 101-level courses free online on artificial...

Professor Helping Scientists See Their Work in a Different Way
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Professor Helping Scientists See Their Work in a Different Way

University of Utah professor Miriah Meyer has created MizBee, a suite of software tools that helps scientists visualize data in new ways, helping them discover...

Piezoelectric Nanowires Create New Form of Memory
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Piezoelectric Nanowires Create New Form of Memory

Taking advantage of the unique properties of zinc oxide nanowires, researchers have demonstrated a new type of piezoelectric resistive switching device in which...

Nsf Project Will Digitize ­.s.'s Biological Collections
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Nsf Project Will Digitize ­.s.'s Biological Collections

The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded a five-year, $10 million grant to Florida State University and the University of Florida to coordinate 92 institutions...
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