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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Master's Degree Is New Frontier of Study Online
Next January, the Georgia Institute of Technology plans to offer a master’s degree in computer science through massive open online courses for a fraction of the...
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Gene Golovchinsky, 1965 2013
Gene Golovchinsky, senior research scientist at FX Palo Alto Laboratory, passed away last week at the age of 48.
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How Big Data Could Help Identify the Next Felon—or Blame the Wrong Guy
Think of it as big data meets "Minority Report."
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Among the Nsa's Own Tips For Securing Computers: Remove the Webcam
Seems like everything gets hacked these days. Baby monitors. White House employees' personal email. Toilets.
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Dragonflies Can See By Switching 'on' and 'off'
The vision systems for robots could benefit from research into the visual circuit in the brain of dragonflies.
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Why We’re a Long Way From Computers That Really Work Like the Human Brain
Significant work remains to be done before computers designed to simulate the human brain achieves that goal.
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Research Shows Precisely Which Strategies Help Players Win Team-Oriented Video Games
A new technique can determine which strategies give players an advantage at multi-player, real-time strategy games.
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Disney Researchers se Automated Analysis to Find Weakness in Soccer Coaching Strategy
Researchers applying artificial intelligence to the analysis of professional soccer have discovered a strategic error often made by coaches of visiting teams.
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Crowdsourcing Weather Using Smartphone Batteries
A team of app developers and weather experts have created a system that crowdsources hundreds of thousands of smartphone temperature readings.
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Here's What You Find When You Scan the Entire Internet in an Hour
Until recently, scanning the entire Internet, with its billions of unique addresses, was a slow and labor-intensive process.
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Nasa Rover Gets Movie as a Mars Moon Passes Another
The larger of the two moons of Mars, Phobos, passes directly in front of the other, Deimos, in a new series of sky-watching images from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity...
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Why Can’t My Computer Understand Me?
In a terrific paper just presented at the premier international conference on artificial intelligence, Hector Levesque, a University of Toronto computer scientist...
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It’s Time to Reform the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
A bill working its way through Congress is an opportunity to update an unfair, outmoded cybersecurity law
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An Inventor Wants One Less Wire to Worry About
Sometimes, there is an actual eureka moment.
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A New 'dawn' in Exchanges' War on Hackers
When prices on some U.S. stocks suddenly zoomed one day last month and others unexpectedly plunged, stock-market officials set out to detect a possible computer...
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Google Is Preparing For Screenless Computers
Google aims to fulfill its vision of a future in which people's primary interaction with computers is vocal by enabling voice commands in all of its products, and...
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Medical Hacking Poses a Terrifying Threat, in Theory
In the world of hypothetical cybercrime, not much is scarier than the hacked medical device.
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Nasa Details Software Algorithm That Could Precisely Guide Future Spacecraft Landings
Researchers at the NASA are developing algorithms designed to land spacecraft safely. One of the key algorithms under development is designed to incorporate a...
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Nasa Voyager Statement About Competing Models to Explain Recent Spacecraft Data
A newly published paper argues that NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has already entered interstellar space.
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