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Cars Could Soon Negotiate Smart Intersections Without Ever Having to Stop
Researchers have developed a model of a system in which smart cars do not have to stop at red lights at intersections.
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Facebook Teaches Bots How to Negotiate. They Learn to Lie Instead
Newly released code purportedly will enable bots to negotiate.
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How Quantum Physics Will Change Cybersecurity
Quantum physics is an often mind-boggling branch of science filled with strange behavior and bizarre implications.
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Jennifer Rexford Announced as the 2017 Ncwit Harrold and Notkin Award Recipient
The award recognizes faculty members from non-profit institutions who distinguish themselves with outstanding research and excellent graduate mentoring.
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S Gov’t Taps The Machine to Beat China to Exascale Supercomputing
With China threatening to build the world's first exascale supercomputer before the US, the US Department of Energy has awarded a research grant to Hewlett Packard...
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Envisioning the Car of the Future as a Living Room on Wheels
Swiveling seats? Movies projected across the windshield? Social media feeds on the windows?
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Github Survey: Open Source Is Popular, Plagued By Poor Docs and Rude People
A new GitHub survey found open source development's popularity is tempered by poor documentation and provocation, mainly rudeness, among developers.
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Russian Researchers Developed a Reliable Forward Error Correction Method For Digital Data
Researchers at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University have proposed a new channel coding method for the fifth generation of wireless systems.
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ta-Led Interdisciplinary Team to Construct Computer Program to Identify Fake News
Researchers say they are developing computer tools to detect social bots within the World Wide Web that create and spread fake news.
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Face Recognition System 'k-Eye' Presented By Kaist
Researchers have developed a semiconductor chip that runs artificial intelligence algorithms using ultra-low power.
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Agencies 'flying Blind' Without More Data
U.S. government agencies require better tools and datasets to assess how artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies will impact the private-sector...
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China's Quantum Satellite Clears Major Hurdle on Way to ltrasecure Communications
Just months into its mission, the world's first quantum-communications satellite has achieved one of its most ambitious goals.
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An Artificial Intelligence Developed Its Own Non-Human Language
A buried line in a new Facebook report about chatbots' conversations with one another offers a remarkable glimpse at the future of language.
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The Pentagon Looks to Videogames For the Future of War
The first real computer, the ENIAC, was built in 1946. The first computer war game appeared two years later.
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Deepmind's Neural Network Teaches AI to Reason About the World
Google's DeepMind has developed a neural network that gives computers the ability to understand how different objects are related to each other.
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A Hybrid of Quantum Computing and Machine Learning Is Spawning New Ventures
Researchers think the field of merging quantum computing with machine learning may soon be ripe for commercialization.
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Safety and Security For Intelligent Infrastructure
Several new white papers describes the challenging threats to safety, security, and privacy via intelligent infrastructure.
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Graphene Transistor Could Mean Computers That Are 1,000 Times Faster
A new graphene-based transistor could someday be used in computers that are 1,000 times faster and use one-100th of the power of conventional computer systems. ...
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