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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Web Giants Get Bigger, Location Takes Off
The easiest way to sum up the Web in 2010 is that it was a year of growth. The big got bigger and smaller companies came out of the woodwork with new plays on...
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Your Apps Are Watching You
A WSJ Investigation finds that iPhone and Android apps are breaching the privacy of smartphone users.
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The Top 11 Technologies of the Decade
The January 2011 issue of IEEE Spectrum reviews the most important innovations that came of age in the past 10 years, based on their influence, usefulness, and...
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Road to a Safer Future
EUREKA is sponsoring a collaborative research effort called E! 4160 VICATS, which is developing a traffic surveillance system that needs minimal human intervention...
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Stanford Professor Uses Social Media to Promote Bone Marrow Donations
Stanford professor Jennifer Aaker is leading One Hundred Thousand Cheeks, a campaign to encourage a sweeping search for bone marrow donors through social media. ...
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Jason: Science of Cyber Security Needs More Work
The JASON independent scientific advisory panel has produced a report on cyber security for the U.S. Department of Defense that says a fundamental understanding...
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Monitoring America
Nine years after the terrorist attacks of 2001, the United States is assembling a vast domestic intelligence apparatus to collect information about Americans,...
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The Clock Is Ticking on Encryption
Today's secure cipher-text may be tomorrow's open book.
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It Needs Fundamental Shift to Continue Rapid Advances in Computing
The pace of advances in information technology could slow unless the United States aggressively commits to fundamental research and development in parallel computing...
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Best Colleges For Women and Minorities in STEM
Westminster College ranked first for graduating women in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields, according to a Forbes study. The best school...
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President's Advisory Group Finds Most Federal IT Funds Being Misused
U.S. federal agencies are using only about 4 percent to 11 percent of the funds they receive for R&D of IT on advancing network communications within the agencies...
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Raising a Botnet in Captivity
Researchers created their own, imprisoned, network of zombie computers to better learn how to take down those at large on the Internet.
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'Synthetic Biology' Holds Promise, But Vigilance Needed
Far more promise than peril lurks in "synthetic biology," the emerging technology of man-made life, a presidential panel reports yesterday.
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Congress Hears Wikileaks Is 'fundamentally Different' From Media
The Justice Department would have no problem distinguishing WikiLeaks from traditional media outlets, if it decides to charge WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange...
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Tracking Trick Shows the Web Where You Are
A new technique from Microsoft Research Silicon Valley could be used to target advertising to users' surroundings without their knowledge.
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Word-Wide Web Launches
New Google database puts centuries of cultural trends in reach of linguists.
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To Attract the Next Google, the City Seeks a New College
Worried that New York City is not spawning enough technology-based start-up companies with the potential to become big employers like Google, city officials are...
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Obama Administration Calls For 'privacy Bill of Rights'
The Obama administration released recommendations Thursday to better protect consumer privacy on the Internet, creating baseline guidelines for how companies...
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Cyber Corps Enlists CS Students to Protect National Security
Nearly 60 Florida State University graduate students in computer science will serve on the front line of defense in protecting the United States' information infrastructure...
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