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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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Degrees, Distance, and Dollars
The Internet is making higher education accessible to a whole new class of students—but not necessarily at a lower cost.
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Cycling Through Data
Sensor-equipped bicycles are providing valuable data to cyclists, city planners, and computer scientists.
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Brains and Bytes
Computational neuroscientists are learning that the brain is like a computer, except when it isn't.
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Online Games Are a Gold Mine for Design Ideas
Gone are the days when video gaming was a private pursuit. Gaming services such as Microsoft's Xbox Live not only connect players in living rooms the world over...
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alr Model to Help Organize, Keep Private 'vast Ocean' of Social Network Data
Researchers from the College of Engineering and Information Technology at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock have developed a new model to manage the "vast...
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Mining Mood Swings on the Real-Time Web
Many companies are turning to social-media sites to gauge the success of a new product and service. The latest activity on Facebook, Twitter, and countless other...
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Michael L. Norman Named Director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center
Michael L. Norman has been named to the position of director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego.
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Hi-Tech Rechargeable Batteries Developed For Military
MIT scientists reported progress in using a common virus to develop improved materials for high-performance, rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that could be...
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Robots Learning From Experience
Software that enables robots to move objects about a room, building up ever-more knowledge about their environment, is an important step forward in artificial intelligence...
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Ready for 2020? Advice for Every Career Stage
Information technology has always been a fast-changing field. But nothing compares to the expected sea changes in the next decade that will impact the career...
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Alien Hunters 'should Look For Artificial Intelligence'
A senior astronomer has said that the hunt for alien life should take into account alien "sentient machines."
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Scientists Help Explain Graphene Mystery
Nanoscale simulations and theoretical research performed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are bringing scientists closer to realizing...
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Android Phones Can Substitute For Supercomputers
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Texas Advanced Computing Center have developed an Android application that can take simulations...
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Location-Based Applications Driving Innovation in Wireless Communications Industry
Fifty experts recently attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute's second International Workshop on Opportunistic Radio Frequency Localization for Next Generation...
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The Future of the Web Is a Matter of Semantics
Researchers at Athens Information Technology and the National Technical University of Athens say there are three main issues to overcome before the semantic Web...
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Ho-Hum to High Performance: Boring Material Could Lead to Electronics Revolution
Cornell University researchers have found that when the oxide compound europium titanate is sliced nanometers thin and stretched on a specially designed template...
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Researcher Cracks Recaptcha
Independent researcher Chad Houck recently released algorithms that can crack Google's reCAPTCHA program, even after the company's recent improvements to the security...
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Cool! Researchers Find Way to se Hvac Ducts For Wireless Monitoring Technology
North Carolina State University researchers have developed a system based on RFID tags that uses a building's heating, ventilating, and air conditioning ducts for...
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How Wikileaks Keeps Its Funding Secret
The controversial website WikiLeaks, which argues the cause of openness in leaking classified or confidential documents, has set up an elaborate global financial...
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