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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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Computer Scientists Empower Citizen Scientists
Binghamton University computer science professor Kenneth Chiu and his students have created a Web site that enables people to access large amounts of information...
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Robots Gear Up For Disaster Response
After 15 years of research, robots for search and rescue may be nearing prime time.
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Data Streaming 2.0
In today's real-time Web, data streaming applications no longer have the luxury of making multiple passes over a recorded data set.
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Swarms of Helicopter Robots Could Create Huge 3-D Displays
The Flyfire project at MIT's SENSEable City Laboratory is creating tiny LED-equipped helicopters that will move in concert to create dramatic, free-form displays...
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New Statistical Method Could Cut Computation Time for Genetic Studies
UCLA researchers have developed a new computational strategy for genome-wide association studies, which enables the scanning of up to a million genetic markers...
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Artists Mine Scientific Clues to Paint Intricate Portraits of the Past
Artists are still painting things they cannot see in real life. Rather than being separated from their subjects by thousands of miles, though, today’s artists are...
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Network Gives Traffic Managers, Police Real-Time View of Road Conditions
University of Maryland researchers have developed the Regional Integrated Transportation Information System, a system that gives traffic managers and police in...
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Collaboration With IBM to Speed Up 'the Cloud'
Cornell University professor Hakim Weatherspoon and IBM researchers are studying the causes of data distortions and are developing ways for cloud computing applications...
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A Swiss Army Knife For Analyzing Three-Dimensional Images
Howard Hughes Medical Institute computer scientists have developed V3D, a software suite that features tools for visualizing, analyzing, and measuring complex,...
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Computer Scientists Create a Multilingual Search Engine
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid researchers have developed a multilingual search engine that can query a data repository written in Interlingua using questions...
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Experience Hubble's niverse in 3-D
Supercomputers and 3-D models helped visualization specialists at the Space Telescope Science Institute transformed Hubble Telescope 2-D images into 3-D environments ...
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Workshop to Focus on Preserving Digital Data
Experts on digital preservation will gather at a workshop at NIST in Gaithersburg, Md., later this month to develop a standards roadmap for long-term preservation...
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Fingertip Bacteria: A Promising Forensic Tool
It's not just our genomes that make us unique. The genomic profile of bacteria that rub off our fingertips and onto objects we touch--a computer keyboard, for instance...
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Researchers Use Light From Leds to Send Data Wirelessly
Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications researchers have experimented with using visible light from commercial light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to transmit data...
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Analytical Eye: Viewing Through the Data Jungle
Visualization techniques can help improve the understanding of the large volumes of data people accumulate, according to researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute...
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Computer Algorithm 'reads' Memories
Computer algorithms developed at University College London (UCL) can predict which of three short films a person is thinking about, just by looking at their brain...
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Research Streamlines Data Processing To Solve Problems More Efficiently
Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new analytical method that opens the door to faster processing of large amounts of information,...
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Context Is Ev . . . Well, Something, Anyway
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed a way to improve object recognition systems by using information about their context.
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A Little Black Box to Jog Failing Memory
On a cold, wet afternoon not long ago, Aron Reznick sat in the lounge of a home for the elderly here, his silver hair neatly combed, his memory a fog. He couldMicrosoft’s...
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