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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Reauthorization of Competes Act Brings Changes to Nist
President Obama on Tuesday (Jan. 4) signed the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010, which provides several important updates to NIST funding, programs...
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IBM's Jeopardy Strategy: Divide and Conquer
When it comes tackling a challenge as tough as answering a human question, the best computational approach may be to break the job down into multiple parts and...
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Utah's $1.5 Billion Cyber-Security Center Under Way
Today's groundbreaking for a $1.5 billion National Security Agency data center is being billed as important in the short term for construction jobs and important...
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Can Cash Prizes For Innovation Get the Economy Rolling Again?
Contests for innovation are back in vogue and are a major component of the Obama administration's agenda for federal government support of private-sector R&D.
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Girls-Only Computer Class Hits Refresh on It's Geeky-Male Image
Canada's Cardinal Leger Secondary School teacher Dan Harmer put all the girls into a single computer science class, hoping that the single-sex environment would...
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Total Recall: Data Diaries Explain Who You Really Are
The collection, archival, and search of everyday personal experiences that are recorded by cameras and other devices could support the digital diaries envisioned...
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Interactive Window Shopping
Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications researchers have developed a three-dimensional camera system that enables consumers to interact with items inside window...
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3-D Steps Up to Decode Mobility
Stanford University researchers are using computer-generated 3-D simulations of human mobility to improve the lives of people with disabilities. The technique...
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Beyond Surveillance: Darpa Wants a Thinking Camera
It’s tough being an imagery analyst for the U.S. military: you’re drowning in pictures and drone video, with more pouring in endlessly from the tons of sensors...
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The American Wikileaks Hacker
Jacob Appelbaum fights repressive regimes around the world—including his own.
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Don't Track Me, Bro
Here is how Jon Leibowitz, chairman of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, describes the current state of affairs on the Internet: "Say I’m walking through a mall...
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Berkeley Lab To Help China Improve Energy Efficiency of Data Centers
The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has started working with China to improve the energy performance of its data centers.
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Computers That See You and Keep Watch Over You
Hundreds of correctional officers from prisons across America descended last spring on a shuttered penitentiary in West Virginia for annual training exercises...
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Rules of Engagement For Cyberwars See Slow Progress
Rules of cyberwar engagement are lagging behind world powers' development of their cyberwarfare capabilities. Meanwhile, cyberwarfare funding continues to rise...
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When Innovation, Too, Is Made in China
As a national strategy, China is trying to build an economy that relies on innovation rather than imitation.
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pcoming Auction Will Offer Space-Race Artifacts
RR Auction of Amherst, NH, is offering at auction this month approximately 500 unique space-themed artifacts, featuring high-quality pieces spanning the early...
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Inside Higher Ed to Carry Series of Commentaries by Academics
Beginning Monday (January 3), the Inside Higher Ed website will begin carrying The Academic Minute, a series of daily 90-second commentaries by scholars speaking...
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Earth Project Aims to 'simulate Everything'
An international group of scientists are aiming to create a simulator that can replicate everything happening on Earth—from global weather patterns and the spread...
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Rise of the Machines
With factories swapping technology for workers during the recovery, jobs may not come back for decades.
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