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Personalized 'Deep Learning' Equips Robots for Autism Therapy
A personalized deep learning network is designed to help robots gauge the effect of autism therapy on children, using data that is unique to each patient.
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It's Time for a Chemistry Lesson. Put on Your Virtual Reality Goggles.
U.K. researchers have created a virtual reality environment that allows biochemists studying a molecule to perform tasks nearly 10 times faster than on a screen...
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Chinese Scientists Set New Quantum Entanglement Record
Researchers in China have set a world record for entanglement of 18 quantum bits, keeping China ahead in the international competition to create a functioning quantum...
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'You Cannot Be Serious': IBM Taps Emotions for Wimbledon Highlights
IBM's Watson artificial intelligence platform is analyzing players' emotions at the Wimbledon tennis tournament.
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Silicon Valley's Giants Take Their Talent Hunt to Cambridge
When you step off the train here and walk into the city square outside the railway station, you will not see the spires of King's College Chapel or the turrets...
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RoboFly On the Wall?
The future of insect-sized remote-controlled aerial robots will be electromechanical, rather than cyborg.
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Georgia Department of Education Announces New Funds for Middle School Computer Coding Courses
Georgia's Department of Education has announced $500,000 in grants to middle schools for implementing computer coding programs.
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Computational Method Puts Finer Point on Multispecies Genomic Comparisons
A new computational model enables more detailed comparative analysis of genome function across species.
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Autonomous Trucks for Logistics Centers
The Fraunhofer Institute for Transportation and Infrastructure Systems in Germany is collaborating with industry to develop autonomous truck technologies in logistics...
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Judea Pearl Codes Languages to Challenge Paradigms of Computer Science
Judea Pearl, recipient of the ACM A.M. Turing Award for 2011, built his career by challenging conventions in the field of artificial intelligence.
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Datasets by Microsoft Research now Available in the Cloud
The goal is to provide a simple platform to Microsoft researchers and collaborators to share datasets and related research technologies and tools.
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Speaking in Code: How to Program by Voice
Debilitating hand pain is always bad news, but Harold Pimentel's was especially unwelcome.
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It's Time for a Chemistry Lesson. Put on Your Virtual Reality Goggles.
There was a time when biochemists had a lot in common with sculptors.
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Ford Video Shows in Painful Detail a 'Phantom Traffic Jam'
A recent study by Vanderbilt University and Ford Motor researchers showed that adaptive cruise control systems can stop "phantom traffic jams" by incrementally...
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Big Data Analytics for Dummies
A big-data analytics platform developed under the EU-funded Trustworthy Model-Aware Analytics Data Platform project should automatically manage all major challenges...
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In Search of New Rules to Protect Other Worlds From Earth's Cooties
NASA has to start protecting planets better. The international treaty governing space—there is one—and the laws and regulations that follow it date back to the...
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Machine Taught Itself to Solve Rubik's Cube Without Human Help, C Irvine Researchers Say
A computer has taught itself to solve a Rubik's Cube puzzle without human aid, according to University of California, Irvine researchers.
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Security Gaps Identified in LTE Mobile Telephony Standard
Cyberattackers are abusing security weaknesses in the LTE mobile telephony standard that affect all devices using the network.
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