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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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AI For the Common Good
Considering guiding principles for artificial intelligence with regard to privacy and security.
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How to Build Software For a Computer 50 Times Faster Than Anything in the World
Argonne National Laboratory scientists aim to produce exascale-enabled software by surmounting problems in memory, power, and computational resources.
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Bots and Trolls Are Swaying Opinions on Facebook, Twitter
A new study shows bots and trolls are using the biggest social media sites to manipulate your views.
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Top500: .s. Knocked Out of 'top Three Most Powerful' List
The U.S. is no longer among the top three in the Top500's latest ranking of the world's fastest supercomputers.
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Data-Mining 100 Million Instagram Photos Reveals Global Clothing Patterns
Researchers applied data-mining technology to determine the global variance of clothing styles from 100 million Instagram photos taken in 44 cities.
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New Prospects For niversal Memory
Researchers have found a way to control the oxygen concentration in tantalum oxide films produced by atomic layer deposition.
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Cars Could Soon Negotiate Smart Intersections Without Ever Having to Stop
Researchers have developed a model of a system in which smart cars do not have to stop at red lights at intersections.
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Facebook Teaches Bots How to Negotiate. They Learn to Lie Instead
Newly released code purportedly will enable bots to negotiate.
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Jennifer Rexford Announced as the 2017 Ncwit Harrold and Notkin Award Recipient
The award recognizes faculty members from non-profit institutions who distinguish themselves with outstanding research and excellent graduate mentoring.
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Envisioning the Car of the Future as a Living Room on Wheels
Swiveling seats? Movies projected across the windshield? Social media feeds on the windows?
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Github Survey: Open Source Is Popular, Plagued By Poor Docs and Rude People
A new GitHub survey found open source development's popularity is tempered by poor documentation and provocation, mainly rudeness, among developers.
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Russian Researchers Developed a Reliable Forward Error Correction Method For Digital Data
Researchers at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University have proposed a new channel coding method for the fifth generation of wireless systems.
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ta-Led Interdisciplinary Team to Construct Computer Program to Identify Fake News
Researchers say they are developing computer tools to detect social bots within the World Wide Web that create and spread fake news.
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Face Recognition System 'k-Eye' Presented By Kaist
Researchers have developed a semiconductor chip that runs artificial intelligence algorithms using ultra-low power.
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Agencies 'flying Blind' Without More Data
U.S. government agencies require better tools and datasets to assess how artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies will impact the private-sector...
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The Pentagon Looks to Videogames For the Future of War
The first real computer, the ENIAC, was built in 1946. The first computer war game appeared two years later.
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Deepmind's Neural Network Teaches AI to Reason About the World
Google's DeepMind has developed a neural network that gives computers the ability to understand how different objects are related to each other.
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A Hybrid of Quantum Computing and Machine Learning Is Spawning New Ventures
Researchers think the field of merging quantum computing with machine learning may soon be ripe for commercialization.
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