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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Computers That See You and Keep Watch Over You
Hundreds of correctional officers from prisons across America descended last spring on a shuttered penitentiary in West Virginia for annual training exercises...
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The A.i. Revolution Is On
Artificial intelligence technology has evolved into a system that uses machine learning, huge data sets, complex sensors, and new algorithms to complete specific...
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Computing on Multiple Graphic Cards Accelerates Numerical Simulations
The Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing and the University of Bonn have been chosen as an Nvidia CUDA research center. The researchers...
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UPC Team Presents a System for Analyzing Information on WikiLeaks
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya researchers have developed DEX, a system for finding information on networks that is designed to complement Internet search...
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1,760 Playstation 3s Form New Supercomputer
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base recently unveiled a supercomputer, named the Condor Cluster, consisting of 1,760 Sony...
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Rules of Engagement For Cyberwars See Slow Progress
Rules of cyberwar engagement are lagging behind world powers' development of their cyberwarfare capabilities. Meanwhile, cyberwarfare funding continues to rise...
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Cassini Celebrates 10 Years Since Jupiter Encounter
Ten years ago, on Dec. 30, 2000, NASA's Cassini spacecraft made its closest approach to Jupiter on its way to orbiting Saturn. The main purpose was to use the...
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When Innovation, Too, Is Made in China
As a national strategy, China is trying to build an economy that relies on innovation rather than imitation.
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pcoming Auction Will Offer Space-Race Artifacts
RR Auction of Amherst, NH, is offering at auction this month approximately 500 unique space-themed artifacts, featuring high-quality pieces spanning the early...
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Intel's 2nd-Gen Chip Arrives, with Hollywood in Tow
Intel is officially announcing its next-generation processor tomorrow—and Hollywood is playing a big role.
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Inside Higher Ed to Carry Series of Commentaries by Academics
Beginning Monday (January 3), the Inside Higher Ed website will begin carrying The Academic Minute, a series of daily 90-second commentaries by scholars speaking...
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Perfecting Animation, via Science
Eitan Grinspun, the director of Columbia University’s Computer Graphics Group, doesn't quite qualify as hairdresser to the stars.
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Android Programming's ps and Downs
As smartphones using Google's Android operating system become mainstream, James Steele and Nelson To are in a pretty good position.
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Electric Currents Move Racetrack Memory Bits with Precision
The moving bits in the proposed data-storage scheme do not stop and start instantaneously, but their motion is easy to quantify.
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Earth Project Aims to 'simulate Everything'
An international group of scientists are aiming to create a simulator that can replicate everything happening on Earth—from global weather patterns and the spread...
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Rise of the Machines
With factories swapping technology for workers during the recovery, jobs may not come back for decades.
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Massive Collider Churning Out Data
This year the world's largest science experiment roared to life. Deep beneath the French-Swiss border, the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, has spent the year accelerating...
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Cheaters Find an Adversary in Technology
Mississippi had a problem born of the age of soaring student testing and digital technology. High school students taking the state’s end-of-year exams were using...
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Ibm Expects Holographic Phone Calls, Air-Powered Batteries By 2015
By 2015, your mobile phone will project a 3D image of anyone who calls and your laptop will be powered by kinetic energy. At least that’s what International Business...
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