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Google Puts Its Virtual Brain Technology to Work
Google's recently developed learning software, which can identify specific objects by watching YouTube videos, is now being used to make Google's products smarter...
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Better Tools For Better Software
Northeastern University professor Matthias Felleisen recently received the 2012 Achievement Award from ACM's SIGPLAN for his work on Racket, which enables programmers...
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Virginia Tech to Tackle the 'Big Data' Challenges of Next-Generation Sequencing With HokieSpeed
The U.S. NSF and the National Institutes of Health recently announced about $15 million in new big data fundamental research projects that aim to develop tools...
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University of Minnesota Engineers Invent New Device That Could Increase Internet Download Speeds
A device that controls light could lead to faster Internet downloading speeds, more affordable Internet transmission costs, and lower power consumption.
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Alan Turing's Cyber-Legacy Praised By Gchq Chief
GCHQ director Iain Lobban recently gave a speech noting the many enduring lessons that could be drawn from Alan Turing's work.
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Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century
When Jonathan Goldman arrived for work in June 2006 at LinkedIn, the business networking site, the place still felt like a start-up.
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Why Trifacta Is Teaching Humans and Data to Work Together
Ask a group of data scientists the toughest part of their job, and many will probably tell you–it's not the math but the work required to turn raw data into something...
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NASA Mars Curiosity Rover Prepares to Study Martian Soil
NASA's Curiosity rover is in a position on Mars where scientists and engineers can begin preparing the rover to take its first scoop of soil for analysis.
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In Europe, Speed Cameras Meet Their Technological Match
When Marc Guerin, a software salesman, drives the 38 kilometers from his home west of Paris to Roissy Charles de Gaulle Airport, he seeks out the fastest route...
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New Tracking Frontier: Your License Plates
For more than two years, the police in San Leandro, Calif., photographed Mike Katz-Lacabe's Toyota Tercel almost weekly.
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Acoustic Cell-Sorting Chip May Lead to Cell Phone-Sized Medical Labs
Researchers have created a device that uses acoustic waves to sort a continuous flow of cells on a chip, and they believe it could lead to more efficient and less...
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DDoS Attacks on Major U.S. Banks Are No Stuxnet—Here's Why
The attacks that recently disrupted website operations at Bank of America and at least five other major U.S. banks used compromised Web servers to flood their targets...
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Artificial Intelligence For Developing Technology For Older Adults
The role of AI in the development of technologies that promote safe independent living for older adults will be the focus of an upcoming symposium titled AI for...
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Home-Based Assessment Tool For Dementia Screening
Georgia Tech researchers have developed ClockMe, a home-based software tool that allows adults to screen themselves for early signs of dementia.
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The Real Tron: It Security as a Shoot 'em Up
MIT researchers have developed an approach that allows IT security professionals to patrol their assigned environments as if they were playing a first-person shooter...
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High Schools Not Meeting STEM Demand
There are more than 42,000 public and private high schools in the United States, but just 2,100 of them offered the Advanced Placement test in computer science...
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Nasa's Infrared Observatory Measures Expansion of Universe
Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have announced the most precise measurement yet of the Hubble constant, or the rate at which our universe is stretching...
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The Real Tron: It Security As a Shoot 'em p
Alert to a sudden threat, you race down a virtual corridor of servers, hot on the tail of malicious software.
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Information Nation: Digital Social Experiment to Put a Human Face on Big Data
Imagine seeing life through one eyeball but then being given the ability to view the world through two or even three eyeballs at once.
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