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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Wide Open Spaces
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission's decision to open frequencies in the broadcast spectrum could enable broadband networks in rural areas, permit smart...
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Career Opportunities
What are the job prospects for today's—and tomorrow's—graduates?
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Security in the Cloud
Cloud computing offers many advantages, but also involves security risks. Fortunately, researchers are devising some ingenious solutions.
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Turning Data Into Knowledge
Today's data deluge is leading to new approaches to visualize, analyze, and catalog enormous datasets.
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Get Ready For the Decade of Gamification
The popularity of video games and the explosion of social networking are intersecting to redefine how we will experience the Web over the next decade.
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What Is Wikileaks?
Months after releasing some 90,000 secret records of U.S. military incident and intelligence reports about the war in Afghanistan, Wikileaks has posted online...
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Robotic Gripper Runs on Coffee . . . and Balloons
Opting for simplicity, researchers from Cornell University, University of Chicago and iRobot have bypassed traditional robotic designs based around the human hand...
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Vietnam Jockeys to Become a High-Tech Player
Vietnam plans to develop fifteen information technology parks to support the country's developing information and communication technology industry through 2020...
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Outsourcing No Longer 'dirty Word' as Tech Spending Rises
First-time customers seeking to simplify back-office operations or upgrade rickety computer systems are helping information technology services companies grow faster...
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Air Force Manual Describes Shadowy Cyberwar World
A new Air Force manual for cyberwarfare describes a shadowy, fast-changing world where anonymous enemies can carry out devastating attacks in seconds and where...
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Engineering, Computer-Science Pay More Than Liberal Arts
Computer science and engineering graduates generally have significantly higher starting salaries than liberal arts majors, according to a Wall Street Journal and...
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The Robot That Reads Your Mind to Train Itself
University of Washington researchers are developing brain-computer interface (BCI) technology by teaching robots new skills using only brain signals. They are...
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D.c. Hacking Raises Questions About Future of Online Voting
Washington, D.C.'s failure to prevent a team of University of Michigan computer scientists from taking control of its online voting website has called into the...
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A Web Pioneer Profiles sers By Name
In the weeks before the New Hampshire primary last month, Linda Twombly of Nashua says she was peppered with online ads for Republican Senate hopeful Jim Bender...
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Building The Next Big Thing: 25 Years of Mit's Media Lab
MIT’s Media Lab recently hosted a series of talks to celebrate its 25th anniversary. Anyone who has paid attention to technology news over that period has undoubtedly...
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Psychologist Explores Motivations Behind 2007 Cyberattack on Estonia
Angry ethnic Russians throughout the world launched a cyberattack on Estonia in April 2007, crippling its cyber infrastructure for four days. Researchers analyzing...
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With Kinect, Microsoft Aims for a Game Changer
Tim Nichols measures fun. A slim, 32-year-old psychologist, he spends his days behind a one-way mirror at Microsoft’s video games research center here, watching...
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Research Publication Adds Qr Codes
People with "smart phones" can now access videos and slide shows from University of Arkansas' Research Frontiers on the Web directly from the print magazine using...
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Computer Scientist Discusses Google Project
Manas Tungare, a 2009 doctoral graduate of Virginia Tech's Department of Computer Science, was the first engineer to work on Google Instant during its earliest...
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