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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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Making Tv Social, Virtually
Researchers from Motorola, BT, and Intel are developing ways to combine social networking technology with TV viewing. The goal is to get as close as possible to...
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Queue ICPC Challenge
ACM Queue readers have an opportunity to compete in an online programming competition based on the 2009 ACM International Collegiate Programming Competition (ICPC)...
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Bringing Color to E-Readers
One of the hot topics at the Consumer Electronics Show this week in Las Vegas is color e-readers, with several companies showcasing new products. While E-Ink has...
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Binary Body Double: Microsoft Reveals the Science Behind Project Natal for Xbox 360
When Nintendo's Wii game console debuted in November 2006, its motion-sensing handheld "Wiimotes" got players off the couch and onto their feet. Now Microsoft...
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How Vegas Security Drives Surveillance Tech Everywhere
Las Vegas casinos are incubators of the world's most advanced surveillance tech. Here's how the spy gear that helps Sin City has taught everyone from government...
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Microsoft's Body-Sensing, Button-Busting Controller
A LONG-lived videogaming skill could be on the way out this year as Microsoft hones an add-on to its Xbox 360 console aimed at making button-studded games controllers...
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Despite Risks, Internet Creeps Onto Car Dashboards
LAS VEGAS — To the dismay of safety advocates already worried about driver distraction, automakers and high-tech companies have found a new place to put sophisticated...
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Do Computers nderstand Art?
Researchers from the University of Girona and the Max Planck Institute have demonstrated that certain mathematical algorithms can offer clues about a painting's...
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Computer Identifies Authentic Van Gogh
Tilburg University Ph.D. student Igor Berezhnoy has used artificial intelligence to develop new digital technology for analyzing the authenticity of paintings....
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ACM and India
ACM is in the process of establishing ACM India as a legal entity and will hold its first conference in late January....
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New Search Challenges and Opportunities
If search engines can extract more meaning from text and better understand what people are looking for, the Web's resources could be accessed more effectively.
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Automated Translation of Indian Languages
India faces a daunting task trying to manually translate among 22 official languages, but assistance, in the form of advanced technology enabled by a lot of hard...
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Amir Pnueli: Ahead of His Time
Remembering a legacy of practical and theoretical innovation.
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Rebuilding For Eternity
Buildings collapse. Wind and rain beat them, temperatures cycle from freezing to blistering, and random strikes of...
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New Game For Playstation 3: Crunching Numbers
Researchers and some government agencies are using Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) consoles to process data using the game machine's powerful Cell processor. For example...
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Racing, Shooting, and Zapping Your Way to Better Visual Cognition Skills
Regular video gamers are fast and accurate information processors, not only during game play, but in real-life situations as well, according to a new study in Current...
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Glasgow's Joking Computer
A computer that is capable of using simple language rules and a large vocabulary to generate cracker-style jokes, based on puns, is the subject of a new exhibit...
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A Deluge of Data Shapes a New Era in Computing
In a speech given just a few weeks before he was lost at sea off the California coast in January 2007, Jim Gray, a database software pioneer and a Microsoft researcher...
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So, That Explains the Headache
A new University of California, San Diego (UCSD) study found that the average U.S. citizen consumes 34 gigabytes of information per day outside of the workplace...
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