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A Healthy Dose of AI
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Safety in Numbers
Mathematicians and computer scientists are working on equations and algorithms that exhibit potential as terrorism countermeasures. These include powerful algorithms...
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OSIRIS Project to Guide ICT Research Infrastructures
The OSIRIS project is developing an international strategy for open and sustainable ICT research infrastructures.
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DARPA Issues Call For Computer Science Devotees
DARPA wants university-based researchers to come up with the next big computer science idea—for the military.
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Touch-Sensitive Virtual Reality Tools Will Train and Test Tomorrow's Surgeons
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute researchers receive $2.3 million NIH grant to develop and validate virtual reality hardware, software for training and certifying...
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Cutting-Edge Medical Imaging System Will Employ Night Vision Technology
UTHealth has reached an agreement with other institutions that will allow it to take the next step in commercially developing an innovative medical imaging system...
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Geo-Tags Reveal Celeb Secrets
U.S. computer scientists have demonstrated that by using information from Internet images and videos it is possible to determine the addresses and locations of...
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How Twitter Could Better Predict Disease Outbreaks
Social media is particularly useful for anyone who wants to track the present—or predict the future.
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DARPA
Darpa’s leading advocate for crowdsourcing and other ways of tapping new talent is leaving to join Microsoft—after only a year at the Defense Department’s top R&D...
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Pnnl, Chinese Researchers Begin Cooperative Clean Energy Work
Researchers from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, the National Energy Technology Laboratory and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have formed a partnership...
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Entering the Secret World of Wikileaks
The Website Wikileaks publishes secret documents submitted by anonymous sources and makes them available to the public. The site, which went public in January 2007...
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China's Green Dam May Be Ready to Collapse
China's Green Dam software-filtering project has been staying afloat without government funds for the past year, but the project may now be in danger of collapse...
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The Challenge of China's Green Technology Policy
To remain competitive in the growing clean energy race, the United States must implement a new public investment strategy with the overarching goal of making...
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It Employment Jumps For First Time Since 2008
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' quarterly current population survey report shows that IT employment rose an estimated 5 percent during the second quarter,...
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ECS Releases All Public Data in Open Linked Data Format
The University of Southampton's School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) recently became the United Kingdom's first university department to release all...
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U.S. DOE Awards $2.04 Million to Rensselaer Nuclear Engineering Program
More than $2 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy will strengthen nuclear research and education, and help develop the next generation of nuclear...
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China Seeks to Reduce Internet Users' Anonymity
A leading Chinese Internet regulator has vowed to reduce anonymity in China's portion of cyberspace, calling for requirements that people use their real names when...
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China Loses Web Filter Battle
Green Dam, the company behind the controversial mandate to install filtering software on every computer in China, has closed its Beijing office and is running...
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nique Thz 'fingerprints' Will Identify Hidden Explosives from a Distance
A breakthrough in remote wave sensing by a team from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute opens the way for detecting hidden explosives, chemical or biological agents...
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