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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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John McCarthy, 1927 - 2011
Winner of the 1971 A.M. Turing Award, John McCarthy was a founder of artificial intelligence and inventor of the Lisp programming language.
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Revamping Storage Performance
Great strides are being made in finding fast alternatives to the slow disks that dominate storage systems, but fast media are not nearly enough.
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Better Medicine Through Machine Learning
Computers that tease out patterns from clinical data could improve patient diagnosis and care.
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Congress Funds Exascale Computing
The U.S. Department of Energy recently won full Congressional funding to support the pursuit of exascale computing.
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No More Access to Google's Hadoop Cloud For Researchers
Google announced it is ending its Academic Cloud Computing Initiative, a joint program with IBM and the National Science Foundation that gave researchers access...
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Self-Healing Electronic Chip Tests May Aid Space Travel
Self-repairing electronic chips are one step closer, according to a team of U.S. researchers, creating a circuit that heals itself when cracked thanks to the...
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The Perfect Software Tester?
As Aspiritech and other companies are discovering, autistic individuals possess certain unique skills that make them ideal as software testers.
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Amazon Builds World's Fastest Nonexistent Supercomputer
The 42nd fastest supercomputer on earth doesn’t exist.
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The Tevatron's Enduring Computing Legacy
Few laypeople think of computing innovation in connection with the Tevatron particle accelerator, which shut down earlier this year. Mention of the Tevatron inspires...
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Mystery Men Forge Servers For Giants of Internet
If you drive down highway 880 from Oakland, Calif., take an exit about 30 miles south, and snake past a long line of car dealerships, you’ll find an ordinary...
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How the 10,000-Year Clock Measures Time
Ten thousand years is about the age of civilisation. Archaeologists have a few relics that have spanned this period, mostly stone tools and works of art. But...
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Why Apple's Acquisition of Anobit Matters
Apple reportedly acquired the Israeli flash memory design firm Anobit in a deal that cost the company $500 million.
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Quantum Computing with Holograms
Light is one of the most promising carriers of quantum information. It is robust against decoherence because it does not interact with stray electric and magnetic...
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Supercomputers Get Real
HPC designers, domain experts, and embedded chip makers are teaming up to create optimized applications.
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Rare, Last Look Inside Space Shuttle Atlantis
Space shuttle Atlantis, which only five months ago flew the final mission of NASA's 30-year shuttle program, is now being prepared for its public display at the...
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San Diego Supercomputer Center Welcomes 'gordon' Supercomputer as a Research Powerhouse
The San Diego Supercomputer Center's new Gordon supercomputer is designed to help researchers solve the most challenging data-intensive problems, including mapping...
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Sharpening the Lines
Researchers at MIT and the University of Utah have developed a technique that they say surpasses the fundamental limits of microchip design and could lead to more...
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Iran Hijacked .s. Drone, Says Iranian Engineer
Iran guided the CIA's "lost" stealth drone to an intact landing inside hostile territory by exploiting a navigational weakness long-known to the U.S. military...
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Did a U.s. Radar Research Station Disable Russia's Phobos Probe?
Soon after the ill-fated Phobos-Grunt spacecraft stalled in Earth orbit, a former Russian official implicated "powerful American radars" in Alaska. Is there a...
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