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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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Google, Nasa Work Together on Disney Show to Inspire Girls Into Sciences
Disney Junior wants a new show it is developing to help bury media stereotypes about science and programmers.
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How Cooperative Research Is Shaping the Future Internet
European researchers are working with Japanese colleagues to build a framework for testing new network technologies.
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Soft Robot to Swim Through Europa's Oceans
Cornell University researchers have received a nine-month, $100,000 grant to develop a soft, swimming robot that can explore other worlds.
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Airport Security Advances Clash With Privacy Issues
At a mock airport in an underground laboratory here at Northeastern University, students pretending to be passengers head through a security exit in the right direction...
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Emotion Detection Software sed to Design Advertising
Mexican computer specialist Enrique Leon Villeda helped revolutionize advertising by developing software to assess the emotions of a person considering consumer...
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Google Embeds Engineers as Professors
Google is placing engineers at a handful of Historically Black Colleges and Universities, where they teach, mentor, and advise on curriculum.
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Wearable Technology Finds Its Place on Campus
Several universities are experimenting with wearable technologies as a way to improve classroom instruction.
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Does Artificial Intelligence Pose a Threat?
After decades as a sci-fi staple, artificial intelligence has leapt into the mainstream.
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Great Innovative Idea: Machine Teaching
Machine teaching is machine learning turned upside down.
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Rice Engineering Students Create Real-Time 3D Radar System
An impulse-based radar for real-time three-dimensional imaging recently was awarded the top prize at Rice University's annual Engineering Design Showcase.
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The Path to a Wearable Future Lies in Academia
Many of the innovative products now available to consumers are based on technologies developed in academic laboratories years ago.
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The Trouble with Reference Rot
The scholarly literature is meant to be a permanent record of science.
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Carnegie Mellon Project Divides Everyday Tasks, Expenses In Ways Scientifically Calculated to Make Everyone Happy
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed a free website that leverages decades of research on how to divide things equitably without resentment.
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To Invent the Future, You Must nderstand the Past
"You can't really understand what is going on now without understanding what came before."
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At the Heart of Facebook's Artificial Intelligence, Human Emotions
Facebook Inc. doesn't yet have an intelligent assistant, like the iPhone's Siri.
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What Is Being Learned From Moocs? New Report Takes Stock
A new report released this week lays out the current state of research into massive open online courses.
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A Google For Handwriting
A new digital platform offers a database of digitized works from cultural heritage collections, including handwritten works rendered searchable.
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In Memoriam: Paul Hudak, Computer Scientist and Saybrook College Master
Paul R. Hudak, professor of computer science and master of Saybrook College, died April 29 after a long battle with leukemia.
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