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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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6 Big Data Projects to Aid Disaster Response
The U.S. National Science Foundation and the Japan Science and Technology Agency will fund research to transform disaster management with big data and analytics...
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Internet Pioneer Vint Cerf Calls For Rapid Web Security Enhancements
The need for security was a recurring theme of the remarks made by Internet pioneer and former ACM president Vint Cerf at the National Press Club on Monday.
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The Trouble with Reference Rot
The scholarly literature is meant to be a permanent record of science.
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The Number Glitch That Can Lead to Catastrophe
A surprisingly simple bug afflicts computers controlling planes, spacecraft and more; they get confused by big numbers.
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The Crazy-Tiny Next Generation of Computers
When Prabal Dutta accidentally drops a computer, nothing breaks.
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Microsoft Age-Estimate Tool Unleashed Real-Time Virality
Microsoft's Project Oxford has launched a range of machine-learning application programming interfaces in beta, including How-Old.net.
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Carnegie Mellon Project Divides Everyday Tasks, Expenses In Ways Scientifically Calculated to Make Everyone Happy
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed a free website that leverages decades of research on how to divide things equitably without resentment.
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Tanja Lange Leads Multi-Million Euro Project to Protect Data Against Quantum Computers
Eindhoven University of Technology cryptology professor Tanja Lange is leading a European project to protect data against quantum computers.
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With Boxing Match, Video Piracy Battle Enters Latest Round: Mobile Apps
The method used by thousands of people to watch unauthorized broadcasts of Saturday night's big boxing match might have been new, but to longtime media executives...
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To Invent the Future, You Must nderstand the Past
"You can't really understand what is going on now without understanding what came before."
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At the Heart of Facebook's Artificial Intelligence, Human Emotions
Facebook Inc. doesn't yet have an intelligent assistant, like the iPhone's Siri.
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The Cloud Is Dead. Long Live the Cloud
Inspired by the tech behind the digital currency Bitcoin, IBM and Samsung are rethinking how connected devices connect.
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"fingerprinting" Chips to Fight Counterfeiting
Researchers are using microscopic variations to "fingerprint" silicon chips used in consumer-product tags to combat product counterfeiting.
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Rehab Robot Harmony Introduced By t Austin Engineers
University of Texas at Austin researchers have developed a two-armed robotic rehabilitation exoskeleton.
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Vint Cerf on Acm, Internet Issues, and Quantum and Machine Computing
Vint Cerf, co-creator of the Internet and vice president at Google, discusses modern challenges of the Internet, technologies of the future, and ACM.
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NASA Aids Response to Nepal Quake
NASA and its partners are gathering the best available science and information on the April 25, 2015, magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Nepal, referred to as the Gorkha...
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Joseph Lechleider, a Father of the Dsl Internet Technology, Dies at 82
In the late 1980s, Joseph W. Lechleider came up with a clever solution to a puzzling technical problem, making it possible to bring high-speed Internet service...
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The Mission To Save The Internet By Rewiring It From The Name p
A international team has been quietly pondering how to rewrite the basic structure of the Internet—for our sakes.
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Ancient Dna Tells a New Human Story
Imagine what it must have been like to look through the first telescopes or the first microscopes, or to see the bottom of the sea as clearly as if the water were...
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