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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Uconn Voter Center Helps Ensure Accuracy of Voting Machines
The University of Connecticut's Voting Technology Research Center analyzes data from AccuVote Optical Scanners, which are electronic ballot-counting systems used...
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Obama's Win a Big Vindication for Nate Silver, King of the Quants
In the end, big data won.
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Why You Can't Vote Online
The lack of verifiable security in online voting systems due to unresolved fundamental problems is the main reason such systems are impractical, according to computer...
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Wrath of the Math: Obama Wins Nerdiest Election Ever
Congratulations, Barack Obama: You have prevailed in the nerdiest election in the history of the American Republic.
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Stanford Election Atlas Maps Votes, Polling Place By Polling Place
Researchers at Stanford and Harvard universities have developed the Stanford Election Atlas, an online interactive data visualization tool that enables users to...
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A Reboot in Recruiting Women Into Computer Science
U.S. government agencies, universities, and technology companies have contributed tens of millions of dollars to increase the number of female computer scientists...
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Computational Medicine Begins to Enhance the Way Doctors Detect and Treat Disease
The Johns Hopkins University Institute of Computational Medicine is using powerful computers to analyze and mathematically model disease mechanisms. The technique...
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Why You Can't Vote Online Tuesday
A decade and a half into the Web revolution, we do much of our banking and shopping online. So why can't we vote over the Internet? The answer is that voting presents...
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How Secure Is Your Electronic Vote?
In an era when shadowy hackers can snatch secret government files and humble big businesses with seeming ease, it's an unavoidable question as Election Day approaches...
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The States with the Riskiest Voting Technology
Next Tuesday's presidential election will likely be extremely close, magnifying the potential impact of vote-counting errors.
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Most U.s. Drones Openly Broadcast Secret Video Feeds
Four years after discovering that militants were tapping into drone video feeds, the U.S. military still hasn't secured the transmissions of more than half of its...
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When Is a Cyberattack an Act of War?
On the night of Oct. 11, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta stood inside the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, housed in a former aircraft carrier moored at a New...
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Tracking Voters' Clicks Online to Try to Sway Them
A few weeks ago, Thomas Goddard, a community college student in Santa Clara, Calif., and a devoted supporter of President Obama, clicked on mittromney.com to check...
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The 'copycat' War: Iran Strikes Back
The growing evidence that Iran was behind a number of recent cyber attacks against Western and Arab institutions has raised concerns in many quarters about how...
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.s. Looks to Replace Human Surveillance with Computers
Computer software programmed to detect and report illicit behavior could eventually replace the fallible humans who monitor surveillance cameras.
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A Spy-Gear Arms Race Transforms Modern Divorce
Danny Lee Hormann suspected his wife was having an affair.
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Automated Meter Reading Systems Make Life Easy For Intruders
Millions of analog meters that measure water, gas, and electricity consumption have been replaced by automated meter reading systems.
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In the Heart of Afghanistan, Entrepreneurs Innovate For Peace
Afghanistan's growing technology industry could be a way to help boost the economy and maintain peace, says INEX IT administrator Mahdi Rezaei, who recently established...
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The Consequences of Machine Intelligence
The question of what happens when machines get to be as intelligent as and even more intelligent than people seems to occupy many science-fiction writers.
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