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Widespread Backing For ­.k. Robotics Network
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Widespread Backing For ­.k. Robotics Network

The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has launched the U.K. Robotics and Autonomous Systems Network to boost Britain's robotics research. 

Hospital Icus Mine Big Data in Push For Better Outcomes
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Hospital Icus Mine Big Data in Push For Better Outcomes

Some hospitals are using a big-data approach to mine intensive-care unit data to help providers and patients realize improved outcomes. 

What 24,000 Facebook Confession Posts Tell ­S About College
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What 24,000 Facebook Confession Posts Tell ­S About College

A Tufts University study analyzed about 24,000 Facebook posts on the Tufts Confessions page dating back to late 2013.

Automatic Bug Repair
From ACM News

Automatic Bug Repair

At the Association for Computing Machinery's Programming Language Design and Implementation conference this month, MIT researchers presented a new system that repairs...

Pluto-Bound Probe Faces Its Toughest Task: Finding Pluto
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Pluto-Bound Probe Faces Its Toughest Task: Finding Pluto

Some 4.7 billion kilometres from Earth, the New Horizons spacecraft is heading for a historic rendezvous with Pluto. To achieve this, it will need to hit a very...

Automakers Tackle the Massive Security Challenges of Connected Vehicles
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Automakers Tackle the Massive Security Challenges of Connected Vehicles

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is accelerating its efforts to mandate vehicle-to-vehicle communications, a step that could help lower the number...

The Secret Codes of British Banknotes
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The Secret Codes of British Banknotes

A brand-new Xerox colour photocopier had just arrived at one of Cambridge's industrial labs.

How Machine Vision Solved One of the Great Mysteries of 20th-Century Surrealist Art
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How Machine Vision Solved One of the Great Mysteries of 20th-Century Surrealist Art

A pair of identical paintings attributed to Belgian surrealist artist Rene Magritte has long mystified art experts as to which one is the original. 

Girls Who Code From Around Globe
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Girls Who Code From Around Globe

Iridescent's Technovation World Pitch Challenge is an opportunity for pre-college girls with an interest in technology entrepreneurship to win $20,000 in seed funding...

Storing Digital Data For Eternity
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Storing Digital Data For Eternity

Vint Cerf is sometimes called the "father of the Internet." He helped develop TCP/IP (the communications protocol for the Internet) and later became chairman of...

The Filter Bubble: Is It Real? Does It Matter?
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The Filter Bubble: Is It Real? Does It Matter?

What are the consequences of the same searches yielding different results for different people?

In Search For Alien Life, Experts Reveal Cutting-Edge Science
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In Search For Alien Life, Experts Reveal Cutting-Edge Science

Where can scientists find clues to help them locate and understand life beyond Earth?

Mind-Controlled Telepresence Robots Could Restore Mobility to the Disabled
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Mind-Controlled Telepresence Robots Could Restore Mobility to the Disabled

It may not be able to do grocery shopping or hang out laundry to dry, but a project involving current telepresence technology could help people with limited mobility...

Should a Driverless Car Decide Who Lives or Dies?
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Should a Driverless Car Decide Who Lives or Dies?

The gearheads in Detroit, Tokyo, and Stuttgart have mostly figured out how to build driverless vehicles. Even the Google guys seem to have solved the riddle.

Morgan State ­niversity Professor Kevin Kornegay Is Leading New Internet of Things Initiative
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Morgan State ­niversity Professor Kevin Kornegay Is Leading New Internet of Things Initiative

Research conducted at Morgan State University promises to make devices that make up the Internet of Things safer. 

­c Santa Cruz Team Introduces New Web-Based Tools For Finding Videogames
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­c Santa Cruz Team Introduces New Web-Based Tools For Finding Videogames

GameNet and GameSage are two Web-based tools to help game players find new games suited to their individual tastes. 

Bringing Big Data to the Big Tent
From Communications of the ACM

Bringing Big Data to the Big Tent

Open source tools assist data science.

The New Smart Cities
From Communications of the ACM

The New Smart Cities

How urban information systems are slowly revamping the modern metropolis.

ACM Announces 2014 Award Recipients
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ACM Announces 2014 Award Recipients

Recognizing excellence in technical and professional achievements and contributions in computer science and information technology.

What Is the Big Secret Surrounding Stingray Surveillance?
From ACM Opinion

What Is the Big Secret Surrounding Stingray Surveillance?

Given the amount of mobile phone traffic that cell phone towers transmit, it is no wonder law enforcement agencies target these devices as a rich source of data...
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