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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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How Good Is Tiger? Mathematician Knows By Number
Just how much does Tiger Woods dominate professional golf? Mathematician Roland Minton can put a number on it.
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Augmented Reality Brings Dibidogs Alive in 3D
The VTT Technical Research Center of Finland has been developing augmented reality technology, which superimposes digital information in the user's view, and uses...
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Robot Pruner May Cut Vineyard Labor Costs
Vino Farms is one of several farms in California that have invested in the development of a new machine that uses vision systems to mechanically prune vine spurs...
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3-D Tabletop Display Gets Rid of the Glasses
University of British Columbia researchers have developed a device called pCubee that offers all the thrills of the three-dimensional (3-D) experience without the...
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Playing 'pong' with the Blink of an Eye
Imperial College London students have developed an open source computer game where a player moves a bat to hit a ball using only eye movements.
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James Bond Spies Fail Social Networking
The director-general of MI5 says he's concerned the Britain's spy agency is being held back by some James Bond-generation agents who don't understand the world...
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Spies Among Us?
Governments' practice of electronic surveillance—and the growing use of warrantless wiretapping—has observers deeply concerned.
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Robots Gear Up For Disaster Response
After 15 years of research, robots for search and rescue may be nearing prime time.
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Data Streaming 2.0
In today's real-time Web, data streaming applications no longer have the luxury of making multiple passes over a recorded data set.
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Funding For Wwii Code-Breaking Centre Bletchley Park
The U.K. government has provided a 250,000-pound grant to repair Bletchley Park, where British mathematicians, including Alan Turing, worked to break Germany's...
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Swarms of Helicopter Robots Could Create Huge 3-D Displays
The Flyfire project at MIT's SENSEable City Laboratory is creating tiny LED-equipped helicopters that will move in concert to create dramatic, free-form displays...
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Experience Hubble's niverse in 3-D
Supercomputers and 3-D models helped visualization specialists at the Space Telescope Science Institute transformed Hubble Telescope 2-D images into 3-D environments ...
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Expert: Bracket Seedings Irrelevant After Sweet Sixteen Round
University of Illinois computer science professor Sheldon Jacobson recently completed a study on the NCAA's men basketball tournament showing that picking the higher...
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Msu Programmers Develop Land Mine Avoidance Game
Michigan State University (MSU) instructors and students are fine-tuning a computer video game designed to help unsuspecting children avoid land mines and other...
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Netflix Ditches Beat-Our-Recommendation-System Contest Due to Privacy Questions
Netflix's grassroots competition to best its recommendation algorithm was a big popularity booster for the company—but thanks to concerns over privacy (backed up...
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Annual Science Festival to Host 'excite Your Mind' Events
The San Diego Science Festival , the largest celebration of science on the West Coast, will be held March 20-27 to raise awareness of the importance of science,...
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Game Trains Soldiers in a Virtual Iraq or Afghanistan
University of Texas at Dallas researchers are developing First Person Cultural Trainer, a computer training tool designed to make it easier for military personnel...
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Take a Nanooze Break
A new exhibition at the Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, FL, will bring visitors face to face with the nanoworld. Take a Nanooze Break features interactive...
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Photos of the Future
Stanford University researchers are developing the Frankencamera, an open source digital camera that they hope will lead to a computational photography revolution...
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