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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 nlikely Tale of How Arm Came to Rule the World
This is a story about ARM Holdings, the mobile technology company.
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Consortium Aims to Boost Minority Faculty in STEM Fields
The California Alliance for Graduate Education and Professoriate is trying to solve the problem of having too few minority Ph.D. students in STEM fields.
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Nasa Responds to California's Evolving Drought
NASA is partnering with the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) to develop and apply new technology and products to better manage and monitor the state's...
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Syria War Stirs New .S. Debate on Cyberattacks
Not long after the uprising in Syria turned bloody late in the spring of 2011, the Pentagon and theNational Security Agency developed a battle plan that featured...
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Playing at Health
Developers try to tap the beneficial effects of video games.
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Telecom Firms Mine For Gold in Big Data Despite Privacy Concerns
Last year's revelations over the U.S. tapping of phone and internet data gave telecoms firms pause for thought over whether they should sell their "big data" for...
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Can AI Design a Video Game?
Researcher Michael Cook thinks his ANGELINA software can design a video game—and that's not all.
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A New System Accelerates Verification of Printed Electronic Documents
The new Valid@doc system accelerates online administrative procedures by automatically verifying and validating printed electronic documents.
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Mt. Gox Disappears From Web in New Setback
Bitcoin suffered a major setback Tuesday as the website of Mt.Gox, the once dominant trading platform for the virtual currency, was all but shut down.
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Taking European Expertise in Computing to Market
The European Commission hopes to complement academics with business expertise through Technology Transfer in Computing Systems.
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The Special Effects Firms Transforming the Film Industry
If you are looking for a sure thing at this year's Oscars look no further than Gravity to win the best visual effects category.
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Marginally seful
Bitcoin, a purely digital currency, is backed by no commodity and governed by no central bank, but it exists because a small number of humans have chosen to believe...
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Internationalizing STEM
There is growing interest in programs that allow students to double-major in a science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) field and a foreign language...
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The Joy of Teaching Computer Science in the Age of Facebook
Stanford University professor Mehran Sahami says students today understand computing's potential and are technology consumers.
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Smartphones May Be Our First Line of Defense Against Radiation
Smartphones could be used to detect gamma radiation.
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Willow Garage's Last Days
In 2006, Scott Hassan, a prolific software engineer, started a research lab dedicated to robotics called Willow Garage.
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Robots with Human-Like Brains to Take on Mars Unaided
It's second nature for us to follow an airplane across the sky, or to walk around a rock we see in our path.
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Eu Project to Build Lie Detector For Social Media
Researchers are leading a European Union-funded project to classify online rumors as speculation, controversy, misinformation, or disinformation.
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