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Predicting the Fate of Stem Cells
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute professor Badri Roysam and University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee professor Andrew Cohen are using computer vision technology to predict...
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Conquering the Chaos in Modern, Multiprocessor Computers
A group of computer scientists have found a way to tame multiprocessor computers, which behave in wildly unpredictable ways even as they become widespread in the...
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Emotional Computer Tutor Improves Girls' Math Scores
Students in Massachusetts will help fine-tune a computer-based, emotionally perceptive mathematics tutoring software developed by University of Massachusetts Amherst...
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Institute Says It Can Mass-Produce Graphene
Scientists have leaped over a major hurdle in efforts to begin commercial production of graphene, a form of carbon that could rival silicon in its potential for...
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Research Streamlines Data Processing To Solve Problems More Efficiently
Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new analytical method that opens the door to faster processing of large amounts of information,...
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New 'hearing' Maps Are Real Conversation Starters
Cardiff University researchers have developed software that creates audibility maps of proposed room designs that show hotspots where conversations would be inaudible...
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Japan Baby-Robot Teaches Parenting Skills
Tsukuba University engineering students have developed Yotaro, a baby humanoid robot designed to teach young people about parenting.
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Speech Technology on Cell Phones Getting Better but Still Not Perfect
"Cat got your tongue?" my wife asked as we bumped along the freeway one recent afternoon. "I wonder where that phrase comes from?" she added a moment later. Now...
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Developing Web Technologies to Share Secure Information
Semantic Web technology will be a key tool in the development of a standard policy language for sharing information between agencies, countries, and organizations...
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Assessing the State of .s. Science and Engineering
Physicist Louis Lanzerotti, chairman of the National Science Board's Science and Engineering Indicators committee, says the board's recent report to the White House...
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Could This Be The Robot Servant Who Will Serve You Breakfast In Bed?
Tokyo University researchers have created Kojiro, a humanoid robot that is learning to mimic how people walk.
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Context Is Ev . . . Well, Something, Anyway
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed a way to improve object recognition systems by using information about their context.
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Nsf Selects Theoretical Computer Scientist For its Highest Honor
The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced Tuesday (March 9) the selection of New York University's Subhash Khot, an associate professor at the Courant Institute...
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A Little Black Box to Jog Failing Memory
On a cold, wet afternoon not long ago, Aron Reznick sat in the lounge of a home for the elderly here, his silver hair neatly combed, his memory a fog. He couldMicrosoft’s...
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Wide Web of Diversions Gets Laptops Evicted from Lecture Halls
On a windy morning in downtown Washington, a hundred Georgetown Law students gathered in a hall for David Cole's lecture on democracy and coercion. The desks were...
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Google
In a meeting at Google in 2004, the discussion turned to an e-mail message the company had received from a fan in South Korea. Sergey Brin, a Google founder, ran...
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Cyber Crooks Leave Traditional Bank Robbers in the Dust
Organized cyber criminals stole more than $25 million from small to mid-sized businesses in brazen e-banking heists in the third quarter of 2009 alone, federal...
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Silicon-on-Silk Electronics Developed For Potential Biomedical Applications
University of Illinois researcher John Rogers has collaborated with a team at Tufts University to develop silicon-on-silk electronics, which could one day function...
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