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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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How the .s. Could Escalate Its Name-and-Shame Campaign Against China's Espionage
Earlier this week the U.S. Department of Justice indicted five Chinese military officers for industrial espionage, accusing them of leading attacks on the computers...
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'killer Robots': Are They Really Inevitable?
The robot tank is moving rapidly through the scrub on its caterpillar tracks.
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Twenty Questions For Donald Knuth
To celebrate the publication of the eBooks of The Art of Computer Programming, (TAOCP), we asked several computer scientists, contemporaries, colleagues, and well...
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Electric Grid, You Have Software pdates Available
The electric grid was designed as a one-way highway, with power cascading out from big power plants to cities and towns at the end of the line.
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Secrets, Lies and Snowden's Email: Why I Was Forced to Shut Down Lavabit
My legal saga started last summer with a knock at the door, behind which stood two federal agents ready to to serve me with a court order requiring the installation...
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Nasa Announces Global Award Winners of the 2014 International Space Apps Challenge
Judges have selected five winners in the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's 2014 International Space Apps Challenge.
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Engineering Graduate ses Big Data to Seek Insights to Bicycle Travel Flow
A recent big data project was designed to get a better understanding of bicycle usage and its relationship to automobile and bus traffic.
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Wireless Camera Network Offers New Possibilities For Security Systems
The Solar Wi-Fi Energy Efficient Tracking camera system is a prototype device for a solar-powered wireless network of smart cameras.
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Enabling Cutting Edge Future Internet Research
The SMARTFIRE project, a two-year European Union effort initiated in 2013, aims to develop large-scale experimental facilities for cutting-edge Internet research...
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In Memoriam: Clarence “skip” Ellis 1943-2014
Clarence "Skip" Ellis, the first African-American man to earn a Ph.D. in computer science, died May 17 at age 71.
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Should .s. Hackers Fix Cybersecurity Holes or Exploit Them?
There's a debate going on about whether the U.S. government—specifically, the NSA and United States Cyber Command—should stockpile Internet vulnerabilities or disclose...
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Pluto-Bound Probe Faces Crisis
Nearly 4.3 billion kilometres from Earth, and most of the way to Pluto, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is in danger of missing out on half of its mission.
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Construction to Begin on 2016 NASA Mars Lander
NASA and its international partners now have the go-ahead to begin construction on a new Mars lander, after it completed a successful Mission Critical Design Review...
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Fcc Chair: An Internet Fast Lane Would Be 'commercially Unreasonable'
Federal Communications Commission chairman Tom Wheeler says the FCC could take action to block the emergence of Internet fast lanes, or "paid prioritization."
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Three Questions with the Man Leading Baidu's New AI Effort
Artificial intelligence is guided by the far-off goal of having software match humans at important tasks.
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Hidden Greenland Canyons Mean More Sea Level Rise
Scientists at NASA and the University of California, Irvine (UCI), have found that canyons under Greenland's ocean-feeding glaciers are deeper and longer than previously...
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Researchers Discover Critical Flaws in the Chip and Pin System
A pair of critical flaws in EMV smart card technology can be exploited to generate cloned cards that are undetectable by normal bank procedures.
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Do We Need a Title Ix For STEM Workers?
The U.S. Office of Management and Budget's Lisa Schlosser thinks a measure along the lines of Title IX may be necessary to close the gender gap in IT.
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