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Stanford Bioengineers Encourage Virtual Competitors to Vie For a Different Kind of Athletic Title
Researchers have built precise models of how individual muscles and limbs move in response to neural control signals, and organized a contest to develop models...
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Pitt Researchers Control Supercomputers in Space
Researchers are conducting high-performance computing operations in space.
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Artificial Intelligence Helps to Keep Tired Drivers Awake
Researchers at Panasonic have developed an artificial intelligence platform to keep tired drivers comfortably alert at all times.
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$2-Million Donation Supports Launch of Theoretical Machine Learning Program
The donation comes from Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google, and Wendy Schmidt, president of The Schmidt Family Foundation and cofounder of the Schmidt Ocean...
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Caltech, Cornell Create Creature-Cataloging Contest For Computers
Researchers have created the iNaturalist Challenge, a competition to produce the best machine-learning algorithm for identifying the world's plant and animal species...
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Barbara Grosz Receives 2017 ACL Life Time Achievement Award
Grosz is Higgins Professor of Natural Sciences in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University.
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Clarifying Complex Chemical Processes With Quantum Computers
Researchers at ETH Zurich in Switzerland say they have demonstrated a concrete example of a future application for quantum computers.
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The Future Takes Flight at Du
Researchers at the University of Denver's Unmanned Systems Research Institute are attempting to improve unmanned aerial vehicle technology.
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Sneaky Attacks Trick Ais Into Seeing or Hearing What's Not There
A new technique could be used by hackers to trick autonomous cars into ignoring stop signs or prevent surveillance cameras from spotting a suspect.
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Argonne Goes Deep to Crack Cancer Code
Scientists are advancing an exascale computing framework for a deep neural network code designed to tackle key challenges to accelerate cancer research.
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An App For the Perfect Selfie
Researchers at the University of Waterloo in Canada say they have developed a smartphone application to help people learn how to take better selfies.
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Are the World's Highest Paid Football Players Overpaid? Big Data Says Yes
Researchers have used machine learning and data science to analyze the salaries of 6,082 professional European football (soccer) players.
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Robots Could Act as Ethical Mediators Between Patients and Caregivers
Researchers hypothesize that robots that understand ethical issues would be able to observe interactions between patients and caregivers, and intervene when needed...
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How Apps Can Motivate You By Tapping Into Your Personality
Rita Orji at the University of Waterloo in Canada is designing interactive persuasive computer games customized to the player's motivational style.
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Wsu Physicists Write With Light, Turn Crystal Into an Electrical Circuit
Researchers at Washington State University have developed a method for writing an electrical circuit into a crystal.
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Teaching Robots Right From Wrong
Artificial intelligence is outperforming the human sort in a growing range of fields—but how do we make sure it behaves morally?
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Chip Technology Could Help the Blind, Robots, See
Bio-inspired designs that encode light as time are ushering in systems as efficient as human neurology.
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Storing Data in Dna Brings Nature Into the Digital niverse
Researchers at the University of Washington currently hold the record for the amount of information stored in and retrieved from DNA molecules.
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Crispr Fixes Disease Gene in Viable Human Embryos
An international team of researchers has used CRISPR–Cas9 gene editing—a technique that allows scientists to make precise changes to genomes with relative ease—to...
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