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International Research Project to Investigate Covert Online Influence
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International Research Project to Investigate Covert Online Influence

An international research cohort that has received about $2.35 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Defense to investigate the use of social cyber forensics...

A Bunch of MIT Students Got $100 of Free Bitcoin in 2014 – Some Wasted It on Sushi
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A Bunch of MIT Students Got $100 of Free Bitcoin in 2014 – Some Wasted It on Sushi

In 2014, MIT computer science student Jeremy Rubin offered all undergraduate students on campus $100 worth of bitcoin. Some got rich. Some spent it at a sushi restaurant...

DOE to Spend $15.1M for Computational, Data Infrastructure for Science Research
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DOE to Spend $15.1M for Computational, Data Infrastructure for Science Research

The U.S. Department of Energy announced $15.1 million for three collaborative research projects at five universities to integrate AI into flexible data and computer...

Researchers Use Patent Data to Assess Technological Improvement
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Researchers Use Patent Data to Assess Technological Improvement

Researchers from MIT used U.S. patents as a dataset to assist predictions of performance improvement in 1,757 discrete technology domains.

House Bill Would Define Software and Data Roles at Federal Agencies
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House Bill Would Define Software and Data Roles at Federal Agencies

Legislation before the U.S. House of Representatives would define roles for software development, software engineering, data management, and knowledge management...

Machine Learning Method Lowers Computational Cost of Satellite Imagery Analysis
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Machine Learning Method Lowers Computational Cost of Satellite Imagery Analysis

A team based at UC Berkeley devised a machine learning system that uses satellite images to estimate environmental conditions with predictive accuracy competitive...

The Top Tech Salaries in the U.S. in 2021
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The Top Tech Salaries in the U.S. in 2021

Tech workers in the United States can earn from 20% to 85% more than the average salary of other workers, with the highest-paying tech jobs averaging from $80,000...

NASA Is Using Data Science to Fill Its Data Science Skills Gap
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NASA Is Using Data Science to Fill Its Data Science Skills Gap

NASA is creating a workforce talent-mapping database to identify the data skills that exist and are required for all kinds of projects within the space agency. ...

DHS Awards $2M for Small Businesses to Develop Machine Learning Tech
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DHS Awards $2M for Small Businesses to Develop Machine Learning Tech

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security recently awarded funding to two small businesses to develop non-contact, inexpensive machine learning training and classification...

Obtain a Ph.D. and a Career in Data
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Obtain a Ph.D. and a Career in Data

Innovative new approaches to learning are enabling people to gain skills that are vital in today's workplace.

Generating Synthetic Data Solves Major Privacy Issues in Research
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Generating Synthetic Data Solves Major Privacy Issues in Research

Researchers at the Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence used probabilistic modelling to generate high-quality anonymized synthetic data while preserving original...

Using AI to Predict and Ease Congestion
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Using AI to Predict and Ease Congestion

A project led by the University of Melbourne uses artificial intelligence to predict traffic congestion up to three hours in advance, and optimizes traffic signals...

DeepMind Wants to Use AI to Transform Soccer
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DeepMind Wants to Use AI to Transform Soccer

Alphabet-owned DeepMind is working with Liverpool to bring computer vision and statistical learning to the high-stakes world of sports.

Fermilab Exposes Proprietary Data for All to See
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Fermilab Exposes Proprietary Data for All to See

Security researchers of the Sakura Samurai ethical hacking group used multiple unsecured entry points to access data, code, messages, and passwords belonging to...

Will Exascale Computers Be Able To Work With Petascale Data?
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Will Exascale Computers Be Able To Work With Petascale Data?

George Slota at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has been granted a National Science Foundation CAREER award to study the complex datasets of modern large-scale...

Neuromorphic Circuit Simulates Associative Learning
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Neuromorphic Circuit Simulates Associative Learning

Researchers at Northwestern University and the University of Hong Kong have developed a computing device that is capable of learning by association.

Sidestepping the Thin Data Problem in National Security
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Sidestepping the Thin Data Problem in National Security

A team of AI researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is exploring ways to work with a short supply of data to generate accurate conclusions in national...

Designing Healthy Diets With Computer Analysis
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Designing Healthy Diets With Computer Analysis

A mathematical model for the interaction of bacteria in the gut could help design new probiotics and specially tailored diets to prevent diseases, researchers say...

DOE Will Spend $10M on Research to Tame Massive Data Sets
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DOE Will Spend $10M on Research to Tame Massive Data Sets

The U.S. Department of Energy will provide $10 million in funding on foundational research to address the challenges of managing and processing the increasingly...

Are You Confused by Scientific Jargon? So Are Scientists
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Are You Confused by Scientific Jargon? So Are Scientists

Scientific papers containing lots of specialized terminology are less likely to be cited by other researchers.
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