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Vanishing Electronics
Engineers are reinventing electronics by building safe devices that dissolve in the body or within the environment. The technology could redefine everything from...
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'Small Data' Enabled Prediction of Obama's Win, Say Economists
"Big data" from crowdsourcing resulted in more complex predictions.
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Making Sense of Medical Sensors
MIT's Imaging Group is studying the use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology to identify chemical compounds.
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Georgia Tech ses 'big Data' Algorithm to Customize Video Game Difficulty
A new algorithm forecasts player performance in video games and adjusts the challenge accordingly to help players learn new skills more quickly.
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Why Are Micro Movies So Popular These Days?
Online micro videos are enjoying a surge in popularity, despite a lack of advanced technology.
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New Computational Model Can Predict Breast Cancer Survival
A new computational model uses the presence of attractor metagenes to predict breast cancer survival.
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System Allows Multitasking Runners to Read on a Treadmill
A new system adjusts text on a monitor to counteract the bobbing motion of a the head of a runner on a treadmill, so the text appears still.
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Rock Snot Genomics
Researchers are using the Ranger supercomputer to analyze diatom DNA data to help them understand what the diatom's original ancestor might have looked like.
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Crowd Diagnosis Could Spot Rare Diseases Doctors Miss
A new Web-based tool uses crowdsourcing techniques to help solve difficult medical cases.
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The pc Builds a New High-Performance Cave Automatic Virtual Environment That Functions With Gesture Recognition
In a new multi-projector cave automatic virtual environment, users interact wirelessly with objects and the virtual environment through their gestures.
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Kissing Cousins? In Close-Knit Iceland, App Helps Prevent Incest
An app making the Islendingabok (Book of Icelanders) available to Android phones notifies Icelanders when people they meet are too closely related to date.
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Harvard Global Grid Computing Project Will Help Create Printable Solar Cells
Harvard University's Clean Energy Project soon will release a list of organic compounds that could be used to make inexpensive, printable photovoltaic cells.
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Battery Backups Can Lower Datacenter Energy Costs
Researchers at Penn State say that datacenters can cut up to 40 percent off their energy costs by provisioning UPS battery backup devices to meet peak energy requirements...
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Software Engineer David Notkin, 1955 – 2013
David Notkin, professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle, recently passed away after a long battle with cancer.
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A Digital Eye to Watch Soccer's Trouble Spots
The organization at the heart of international soccer’s technological advancement is located in a generic two-story building just off the A4 highway here, a few...
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The Digital Public Library of America: Adding Gravitas to Your Internet Search
One year ago, a group of professors, librarians, and futurists gathered in San Francisco to discuss how they would go about building a Digital Public Library of...
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Security Holes in Smartphone Apps
Popular Android apps have security flaws that could expose private information or allow forged fraudulent messages to be posted.
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Wireless 'smart Skin' Sensors Could Provide Remote Monitoring of Infrastructure
Wireless technology under development will monitor structures for strain, stress, and early crack formation using low-cost, low-power wireless sensors.
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Future Challenges of Large-Scale Computing
Similar processor requirements in high-performance computing, Web servers, and big data will lead to a convergence on heterogeneous multicore processors.
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