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Brown/hasbro Team to Design Smart Robotic Companions to Assist Seniors
Researchers are using a U.S. National Science Foundation grant to enhance Hasbro's Joy for All Companion Pets into smart robots that can help older adults with...
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Researchers Develop Data Bus For Quantum Computer
Researchers at the University of Innsbruck in Austria have developed a technique to transfer quantum information between systems that are encoded in different ways...
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The Computer Scientist Who Prefers Paper
For years, Barbara Simons was the loneliest of Cassandras—a technologist who feared what technology had wrought. Her cause was voting: Specifically, she believed...
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Choreography With Computers
Singapore Management University professor Akshat Kumar is developing computational methods for choreographing the movements of autonomous cars and ships.
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Touch-Sensitive Avatar-Robotic Arm Based on Real-Time Haptics
Researchers say they have developed a "real-time-avatar-robotic arm" that transmits sound, vision, and tactile sensations to remotely located users.
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Nanoscale 'abacus' ses Pulses of Light Instead of Wooden Beads to Perform Calculations
Researchers have developed a nanoscale optical "abacus" that uses light signals to perform arithmetic computation.
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Powering Saturn's Active Ocean Moon
Heat from friction could power hydrothermal activity on Saturn's moon Enceladus for billions of years if the moon has a highly porous core, according to a new modeling...
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System ses 'deep Learning' to Detect Cracks in Nuclear Reactors
Purdue University researchers are developing an artificial intelligence system to detect cracks captured in videos of a nuclear reactor.
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Johns Hopkins-Led Team Aims to Turn Computer Systems Into Digital Detectives
An international team of researchers is using an $11-million U.S. Department of Defense grant to streamline investigations by developing algorithms for extracting...
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Broadening the CS Cohort
Innovative programs are drawing women and minority students to computer science, and giving them the support they need to succeed.
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How to Ensure AI Is Good For Girls: A Robot For Every Child
Rapid progress is being made in the field of artificial intelligence and robotics, as milestones are being passed in a wide range of areas.
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Stanford Researchers Seek Citizen Scientists to Contribute to Worldwide Mosquito Tracking
Researchers are seeking citizen scientists to contribute to a mosquito-monitoring platform.
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Building A.i. That can Build A.i.
They are a dream of researchers but perhaps a nightmare for highly skilled computer programmers: artificially intelligent machines that can build other artificially...
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A Better Technique For Spotting Bugs in Self-Driving AI Could Save Lives
Most software bugs won't kill you.
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Captcha Is Dying. This Is How It's Being Reinvented For the AI Age
Completely Automated Public Turing Tests to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHAs) appear to be heading toward obsolescence.
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Crowdsourcing Big-Data Analysis
FeatureHub is a new collaboration tool designed to make feature identification more efficient and effective.
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Smart Access to Homes and Cars sing Fingers
Researchers at Rutgers University have developed a low-cost, minimal-power smart access system that can authenticate users by sensing their finger vibrations.
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Humans Are Still Better Than AI at Starcraft--For Now
Professional player Song Byung-gu won a recent "StarCraft" tournament in South Korea, beating four artificial intelligence programs in less than 30 minutes.
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Graphene Enables High-Speed Electronics on Flexible Materials
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have used graphene transistors on plastic substrates to develop a flexible detector for terahertz frequencies...
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