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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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Software Improves Yuma Proving Ground Test Equipment
Researchers at the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Ground have developed a program that can determine the positional and angular motion of relatively stationary test objects...
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Access to Data of the Past
Tools to understand data from out-of-date systems will also promote the rapid integration of data from newly developed systems.
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Cloud Computing Method Greatly Increases Gene Analysis
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have developed new software that uses cloud computing to greatly improve the speed at which...
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Massive Online Networks to be Focus of Study of Creative Collaborations
Using two creative online communities as their laboratory, two Indiana University Bloomington researchers hope to understand how the inner workings of such massive...
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How to Remake Life
Venter Institute researchers have made the first viable cell with a synthetic genome.
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Rensselaer Professor Wins Hp Innovation Award
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute professor of computer science Mohammed J. Zaki has been recognized by the 2010 HP Labs Innovation Research Program for his work...
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Sizing Samples
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers led by graduate student Vincent Tan have taken an initial step to determine how much data is enough to support...
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Nano Switches that Store More Data Head to Market
An electronic component that offers a new way to squeeze more data into computers and portable gadgets is set to go into production in just a couple of years.
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K-Anonymity Privacy Protection Model Needs a Little Help
The "K-anonymity" method of providing anonymity to large data sets has raised excitement in realms as diverse as social networks and medical records, but it appears...
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Helping Victoria Deal With Bushfires
The University of Melbourne and Bushfire CRC have designed Phoenix RapidFire, a simulation program that can provide detailed information on the spread of fires.
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Advances Offer Path to Shrink Computer Chip
Scientists at Rice University and Hewlett-Packard are reporting this week that they can overcome a fundamental barrier to the continued rapid miniaturization...
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Worm Memory ses Orders of Magnitude Less Power Than Other Devices
Cambridge University researchers have developed an inexpensive write once, read many (WORM) memory device that uses much less power than previous devices.
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Location Determines Social Network Influence, Ccny-Led Team Finds
Researchers led by professor Hernan Makse at The City College of New York have found that location is more important than having the most connections when determining...
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3-D Movies Via Internet and Satellite
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications have developed the Multiview Video Coding compression technique for three-dimensional movies that...
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DARPA Takes Aim at Insider Threats
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is seeking to address security threats by launching a new initiative to enable security staff to rapidly detect...
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Intel, Amd Vie to Rewire Pc's Brain
Intel and AMD are off to the races again. This time it's about making PCs not just faster, but more versatile.
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A Search Service that Can Peer Into the Future
Yahoo!'s Barcelona research lab has developed Time Explorer, a prototype news search engine that generates timelines that stretch into the future as well as the...
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Sizing Samples
Many scientific disciplines use computers to infer patterns in data. But how much data is enough to ensure that the inferences are right?
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.K. Researchers Tap Semantic Web for Business Intelligence Innovation
SAP is leading a European research project that will combine semantic technologies with business intelligence in a system to help business users make better sense...
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