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Security Researchers Want to Hide Your Data in 'cyberfog'
Computer scientists at the U.S. Army Laboratory see "cyberfog" as a powerful new form of data security. They say partially compromised data on a fog network would...
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Stanford's First Health++ Hackathon Brings Health Care Innovators Together
Stanford University's inaugural health++ Hackathon involved participation from 257 students, faculty, health professionals, designers, and entrepreneurs to create...
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Why the Software Industry Needs Computing Education Research
Job opportunities for software development abound, but schools are producing coders of less-than-adequate skill, according to University of Washington professor...
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Semiconductor-Free Microelectronics Are Now Possible, Thanks to Metamaterials
University of California, San Diego researchers say they have developed the first semiconductor-free, optically controlled microelectronic device built from metamaterials...
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Cybercriminals Can Steal All Your Passwords From Thin Air With This $25 Wi-Fi Hack
Researchers have developed a system that can analyze Wi-Fi networks and covertly detect and record passwords by looking at the directions radio waves travel to...
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Defibrillator-Equipped Drones Could Be First on Scene in Cardiac Arrest
Timothy Chan at the University of Toronto in Canada wants to use drone technology to help people who suffer cardiac arrest. Chan used computer models to determine...
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Mathematical Algorithms Calculate Social Behavior
Predicting and influencing human behavior is well on its way to becoming reality, according to researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TU Munich) in...
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Quantum Computers Can Talk to Each Other via a Photon Translator
Researchers from Germany's University of Paderborn have developed a system that can convert photons from one spread of frequencies to another, while preserving...
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Martha E. Pollack, Provost at Michigan, Named 14th President
A fellow of ACM, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Pollack’s research...
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Tackling Society's Big Problems With Systems Theory
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Institute for Data, Systems, and Society doctoral program is underway.
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niversity Researchers Develop Iris-Recognition Technology
Notre Dame University researchers have developed software that can determine the difference between iris scans using a new method.
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Virtual Reality App Makes Haptics as Immersive as Visuals
Disney Research has developed a 360-degree virtual reality application and a haptic chair that enable users to enhance their virtual experience with customizable...
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The 'smart City' Is Increasingly Global
Municipalities all over the world are building greater intelligence into their infrastructures.
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Artificial-Intelligence System Surfs Web to Improve Its Performance
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers say they have developed a new approach to information extraction that inverts conventional machine learning.
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Real or Not? SC Study Finds Many Political Tweets Come From Fake Accounts
University of Southern California researchers found bots made up nearly 20% of the political conversation on Twitter during the U.S. presidential campaign season...
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Online Password Guessing Threat nderestimated
Researchers have created different guessing frameworks that prioritize the order of guessing based on attackers having access to different types of personal information...
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Accelerating Cancer Research With Deep Learning
Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers are applying deep-learning techniques to automate how information is collected from cancer pathology reports.
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Robovote Helps Groups Make Decisions sing AI-Driven Methods
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon and Harvard universities have launched an online service that enables optimal group decisions.
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Now You See It, Now You Don't
Researchers say they have developed a cloaking device for microscopic photonic integrated devices that will enable photonic computer chips to be more efficient....
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