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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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3D Graphics & Reality Fuse on the Fly
Oxford University researchers have developed the Parallel Tracking and Mapping program, a camera-tracking system for fusing real and three-dimensional (3D) computer...
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Cloud to Tackle Trillion-Euro Money Laundering Problem
Money laundering is estimated at €1 trillion ($1.36 trillion) worldwide—a huge problem that protects criminal activity. Now European researchers are using cloud...
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Putting the Web in a Spreadsheet
IBM researchers have developed BigSheets, a data analysis tool based on Hadoop designed to help users analyze large Web data sets. BigSheets uses Hadoop to comb...
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Researchers Find Weakness in Common Digital Security System
The most common digital security technique used to protect both media copyright and Internet communications has a major weakness, University of Michigan computer...
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Touch Screens that Touch Back
Forget putting your phone on vibrate. A novel "high-definition" touch-feedback display can give a touch screen the feel of a textured surface. The technology was...
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What's Next For High-Performance Computing?
The fusion of high-performance computing (HPC) and high-performance data could potentially result in the generation of robust systems that are at least one order...
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Scientists Strive to Map the Shape-Shifting Net
In a dimly lit chamber festooned with wires and hidden in one of California’s largest data centers, Tim Pozar is changing the shape of the Internet. He is using...
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Software Sniffs Out Criminals By the Shape of Their Nose
University of Bath scientists have developed a biometric system for identifying people based on their nose shape. The researchers used a photographic system to...
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Ornl Technology May Better Detect Cyber Security Attacks
A system that can more effectively detect possible cyber security attacks within large organizations—including government agencies—is being developed with the assistance...
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Ibm Speeds p Data Analysis With New Algorithm
Researchers at IBM's laboratories in Zurich have developed a new algorithm that can sort, correlate, and analyze millions of random data sets in minutes.
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Professors Find Ways to Keep Heads Above 'exaflood' of Data
Researchers remain optimistic about the prospect of keeping track of the exaflood of data, from gene sequences and distant pulsar signals to YouTube videos and...
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Making Sense of Mountains of Data
"How do you take a big collection of things and make sense out of it?" asks Gary Flake, founder and director of Microsoft Live Labs, a division of the softwarePivot...
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Tracking Garbage
Researchers are focusing on the so-called "removal chain" in an attempt to save landfill space, improve recycling rates, and trim the flow of toxic materials into...
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Engineering the Web's Third Decade
As Web technologies move beyond two-way interactive capabilities to facilitate more dynamic and pervasive experiences, the Web is quickly advancing toward its third...
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CS and Biology's Growing Pains
Biologists can benefit from learning and using the tools of computer science, but several real-world obstacles remain.
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Augmented Identity
An application that lets users point a smart phone at a stranger and immediately learn about them premiered last Tuesday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona...
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Computers Turn Flat Photos Into 3-D Buildings
Rome wasn’t built in a day, but in cyberspace it might be. Computer science researchers at the University of Washington and Cornell University are deploying a...
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Is That a 'black Box' in Your Car?
Just a few miles east of Los Angeles International Airport, a Chevy Tahoe barreled its way through a residential neighborhood on a Sunday evening. The driver lost...
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For Chip Makers, the Next Battle Is in Smartphones
The going rate for a state-of-the-art chip factory is about $3 billion. The plants typically take years to build. And the microscopic size of chip circuitry requires...
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