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Winners Announced for the Zillow Prize
The Zillow Prize competition pitted nearly 4,000 teams against one another in an effort to develop a computerized system that could predict the future sale price...
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Self-Taught Robot Figures Out What It Looks Like, What It Can Do
Columbia University researchers have developed a robot that learns what it looks like without any outside help.
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Scientists Connect Human Brain, 'Rat Cyborg' Brain Together
Chinese researchers have constructed a wireless brain-to-brain interface that enables a human to direct a rat through a maze.
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'Hamlet' in Virtual Reality Casts the Viewer in the Play
Boston’s Commonwealth Shakespeare Company and Google have created a virtual reality (VR) version of "Hamlet" in which the viewer plays the ghost of Hamlet’s father...
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How Facebook Has Changed Computing
Because of Facebook's openness, many of its technologies have become industry standards.
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The Rise of the Robot Reporter
As reporters and editors find themselves the victims of layoffs at digital publishers and traditional newspaper chains alike, journalism generated by machine is...
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5 Reasons Why Autonomous Cars Aren't Coming Anytime Soon
In the world of autonomous vehicles, Pittsburgh and Silicon Valley are bustling hubs of development and testing. But ask those involved in self-driving vehicles...
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Data Scientists Face Off in LSST Machine-Learning Competition
An international machine learning challenge hosted on the Kaggle.com platform asked participants to identify which of 15 classifications was the best fit for each...
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Volvo's Self-Driving Car Venture Gets Nod to Test on Swedish Roads
A joint venture between Volvo Cars and Veoneer has won approval to begin hands-free testing of its software for self-driving cars on Swedish highways.
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This Video Game Tournament Will Test the Wits of Computers
Unity Technologies has announced the Obstacle Tower game and challenge, a video game tournament intended to contribute to artificial intelligence research.
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Computing Touch
Research groups working independently are closing in on imbuing limbs with a sense of touch via "e-dermis."
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Drones Help Rid Galapagos Island of Rats
Drones flying over the Galapagos island of North Seymour dropped rat poison in an effort to eliminate invasive black and brown rats.
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Most People Overlook AI Despite Flawless Advice
U.S. Army researchers and colleagues have found a persistent gap in basic knowledge about the use of artificial intelligence.
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Amazon Scout Robots Take to Pavements in Washington State
Amazon is pilot-testing a wheeled electric robot that travels on pavements to deliver packages to customers in Snohomish County, WA.
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Digital Design, QB Investments Could Aid Football Helmets
Major football helmet manufacturers are funding and refining new digitally designed models with enhanced safety features.
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Putting Neural Networks nder the Microscope
Researchers have developed a method of identifying individual nodes in neural networks that capture specific linguistic features.
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Deep Learning 'Godfather' Bengio Worries About China's se of AI
Yoshua Bengio, a Canadian computer scientist who helped pioneer the techniques underpinning much of the current excitement around artificial intelligence, is worried...
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“This Guy’s Arrogance Takes Your Breath Away”
Letters between John W. Backus and Edsger W. Dijkstra, 1979.
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Do Data Scientists Need Certification?
The Open Group information technology consortium has announced the establishment of a data scientist certification program to address the shortage of data scientists...
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