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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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Thermal Camera Turns Many Things Into Interactive Surfaces
Augmented reality company Metaio is developing technology that could enable people to use all kinds of objects as interactive touch surfaces.
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Online Marketing Schemes Can Still Lure Customers
Despite legislation and warnings, online consumers remain susceptible to post-transaction marketing schemes.
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The Complex Mathematics of Robot Wrestling
Researchers at Utsunomiya University in Japan have written a mathematical model for the sport of wrestling, which they have tested in a numerical simulation.
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Data, Data Everywhere
The MOOC Research Initiative has released the results of 22 projects pertaining to massive open online courses.
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N nveils Big Data Climate Change Challenge
The United Nations is hosting the Big Data Climate Challenge, a global competition to facilitate the use of big data to address issues related to climate change...
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Genes in the Cloud: Google Steps Into Autism Research
Google and Autism Speaks will house the sequencing of 10,000 complete genomes and other clinical data with the goal of accelerating research on autism.
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Modifying Behavior with Wearable Technologies
Created to monitor individuals’ activities, feedback from wearable technologies can help users learn from mistakes and behave better.
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How to Raise a Personable Robot
Social roboticist Heather Knight's research focuses on making robots socially expressive so they can interact with people on a more personable level.
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Social Media Garden Is First Step in Creating 'emotional' Buildings
Computer scientists and architects are exploring whether architecture is able to reflect and map human emotions.
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App Paired With Sensor Measures Stress and Delivers Advice to Cope in Real Time
ParentGuardian is a smartphone-based system designed to detect stress in parents and help decrease that stress during interactions with their children.
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Deeper Than Ancestry.com, 'evocor' Identifies Gene Relationships
EvoCor is a new search engine that identifies genes that are functionally linked.
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Computer Model Predicts Academic Success
The mantra "publish or perish" is drilled into every early-career scientist—and for good reason, a computer model suggests.
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50 College Diplomas with the Highest Pay
Students who recently graduated from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science are making a handsome average salary of $89,800.
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Navy Puzzle Challenge Blends Social Media, Cryptology
The U.S. Navy has announced the winners of its Project Architeuthis cryptology puzzle game challenge, designed for Navy cryptology technicians.
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Bake Your Own Robot
Printable robots—those that can be assembled from parts produced by 3-D printers—have long been a topic of research in the lab of Daniela Rus, the Andrew and Erna...
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A Rare Look Inside the Air Force's Drone Training Classroom
Learning how to drop bombs and fire Hellfire missiles is more like sitting in a regular college classroom than you might expect.
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.s. Schools Missing Opportunities For More CS Majors
Nearly half of U.S. college students majoring in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines change their majors.
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.s. Companies Seek Cyber Experts For Top Jobs, Board Seats
Some of the largest U.S. companies are looking to hire cybersecurity experts in newly elevated positions and bring technologists on to their boards, a sign that...
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Computer Scientists Study Other Computer Scientists
A study and data set from Brown University on computer science faculty at the 50 top U.S. schools yielded interesting findings.
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