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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Legal Issues with Robots
Who is responsible when property is damaged or someone is injured by an automated system? Existing product liability laws have not yet been tested in the context...
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Web-Based Map Allows sers to See Intricate Patterns in .s. Population
A free, Web-based mapping site allows users to access detailed demographic data for any location in the United States.
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Here's Why the Feds Didn't Have More Skilled Programmers For Healthcare.gov
HealthCare.gov, the Web site at the center of President Obama's federal health insurance exchange, has been plagued with problems since it opened for business Oct...
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Smarter Video Searching and Indexing
A new framework that would enable Internet users to search for videos using images rather than text could lead to smarter searching and indexing.
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Graphics Chips Help Process Big Data Sets in Milliseconds
New software can use the graphics processors found on everyday computers to process torrents of data more quickly than is normally possible, opening up new ways...
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Electric Cars: Hidden Habits You Are Sharing with Firms
You wouldn't think that anybody would care about your drive to the supermarket to buy milk.
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Taking the Internet nderwater
A deep-sea Internet framework could lead to better tsunami detection, offshore oil and natural gas exploration, surveillance, pollution monitoring, and other activities...
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Researchers Discover New Approach to Improve Personalized Cancer Treatments
A new method for targeting mutated cells could lead to a major breakthrough in a personalized medicine approach to treat cancer.
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Big Data Is Too Big For Scientists to Handle Alone
Experts say big data can only be leveraged in future scientific endeavors with a combination of science, statistics, computers, mathematics, and leadership.
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Researchers Split Over NSA Hacking
The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has upset a great many people this year.
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Computer Scientists Develop New Approach to Sort Cells p to 38 Times Faster
A new approach combines computer vision and hardware optimization to sort cells up to 38 times faster than is currently possible.
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Tiny Sensor Used in Smartphones Could Create Urban Seismic Network
A tiny chip used in smartphones to adjust the orientation of the screen can detect moderate to strong earthquakes when located near the epicenter.
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Bison Enables Complex Nuclear Fuel Modeling, Simulation
BISON is a new software designed to make it easier for researchers to gain insight into processes they would not otherwise have resources to simulate.
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Smart Cities: Citizens Come to Their Sensors
Santander, Spain, has become a model for high-tech smart cities worldwide.
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Bringing 'common Sense' to Text Analytics
Bringing "common sense" to artificial intelligence is one of the biggest challenges in computer science: It entails equipping computers with the shared knowledge...
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The Alan Turing Year Leaves a Rich Legacy
A year-long celebration of the life and work of a man whom many call the founding father of computer science.
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Moose Enables 'plug and Play' Simulations
Idaho National Laboratory researchers are developing MOOSE, a software framework for simulating the behavior of complex systems.
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Calling For Proposals: Creating Visions For Computing Research
The Computing Research Association's Computing Community Consortium has issued a call for proposals for workshops on research at the frontiers of computing.
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