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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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The Crispr Quandary
One day in March 2011, Emmanuelle Charpentier, a geneticist who was studying flesh-eating bacteria, approached Jennifer Doudna, an award-winning scientist, at a...
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Google Aims to Make Vr Hardware Irrelevant Before It Even Gets Going
Google and Facebook are pushing virtual-reality technology along two different lines.
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Relearning to Speak
New systems can help you not only learn to understand a second language, but how to pronounce it correctly.
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Synthetic Biology Lures Silicon Valley Investors
In 2012, Emily Leproust was trying to raise money to start Twist Bioscience, a company that aimed to synthesize DNA more quickly and more cheaply than existing...
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Harvard Law Library Readies Trove of Decisions For Digital Age
Shelves of law books are an august symbol of legal practice, and no place, save the Library of Congress, can match the collection at Harvard's Law School Library...
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Artificial-Intelligence Institute Launches Free Science Search Engine
With Google Scholar, PubMed, and other free academic databases at their fingertips, scientists may feel they have plenty of resources to trawl through the ever-growing...
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Robots Can Now Teach Each Other New Tricks
Two robots operating in different academic research labs have demonstrated a rudimentary ability to exchange knowledge.
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Dartmouth Study Illustrates How Game Design Can Reduce Stereotypes and Social Biases
A new Dartmouth College study highlights how games can have beneficial societal effects.
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How Sensorimotor Intelligence May Develop
The emergence of self-directed behavior in robots can be grounded in the synaptic plasticity of their nervous systems, according to a new study.
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Designing Interactive Memory Joggers
Texts, photos, and videos are the fodder of memories, which require appropriate cues to materialize those memories from custom-designed hardware, says one researcher...
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Coding Bootcamp Grads Boost Their Salaries By 40 Percent on Average
Graduates of coding bootcamps found completing the programs helped boost their salaries by an average of 38 percent or $18,000, according to the Course Report.
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Relearning to Speak
New systems can help you not only learn to understand a second language, but how to pronounce it correctly.
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What It Will Take to Make Computer Science Education Available in All Schools
Marie desJardins of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, sees a great need to expand computer science education in the K-12 grades.
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How Your Device Knows Your Life Through Images
Researchers have designed an artificial neural network to identify scenes in photographs taken by people using wearable cameras or mobile phones.
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Brain Science Helps Computers Separate Speakers in a Crowded Room
People can listen to a single voice amid the hubbub of a cocktail party; algorithms can help computers do it, too.
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Companies Proactively Seek Out Internal Threats
Organizations must balance their concerns with the protection of employee privacy.
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John H. Holland 1929-2015
John Henry Holland, a pioneer in the study of complex adaptive systems and of what became known as genetic algorithms, died in August at the age of 86.
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Sorry, Einstein. Quantum Study Suggests 'spooky Action' Is Real.
In a landmark study, scientists at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands reported they have conducted an experiment they say proves one of the most...
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Academics Present New Breakthroughs For Fundamental Problems in Computer Science
Researchers this week presented papers on two fundamental problems in computer science at the IEEE symposium on Foundations of Computer Science.
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