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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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A Search Service that Can Peer into the Future
Showing news stories on a timeline has been tried before. But Time Explorer, a prototype news search engine created in Yahoo's Barcelona research lab, generates...
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Supercomputers Supermodel Supermassive Black Holes
What happens when two black holes smash into each another? They form an even larger black hole while driving jets of relativistic matter into the far reaches...
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Virtual Router Smashes Speed Records
Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have developed a networking router that transmits data at nearly 40 gigabytes per second,...
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Yahoo! Labs Competition Yields Better Ranking Model
The Learning to Rank Challenge showed Yahoo! that its approach to search is on target, but there’s still room for improvement.
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Hacker
On the Internet, he was known as BadB, a disembodied criminal flitting from one server to another selling stolen credit card numbers despite being pursued by...
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Kyoto Prize and Other CS Awards
László Lovász, Vinton G. Cerf, and other researchers are honored for their contributions to computer science.
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ACM China Nearing Launch
ACM's expansion into China will support local professionals and increase Chinese involvement in ACM's international activities.
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alr Model to Help Organize, Keep Private 'vast Ocean' of Social Network Data
Researchers from the College of Engineering and Information Technology at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock have developed a new model to manage the "vast...
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Mining Mood Swings on the Real-Time Web
Many companies are turning to social-media sites to gauge the success of a new product and service. The latest activity on Facebook, Twitter, and countless other...
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Ready for 2020? Advice for Every Career Stage
Information technology has always been a fast-changing field. But nothing compares to the expected sea changes in the next decade that will impact the career...
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Scientists Help Explain Graphene Mystery
Nanoscale simulations and theoretical research performed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are bringing scientists closer to realizing...
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Android Phones Can Substitute For Supercomputers
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Texas Advanced Computing Center have developed an Android application that can take simulations...
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Researcher Cracks Recaptcha
Independent researcher Chad Houck recently released algorithms that can crack Google's reCAPTCHA program, even after the company's recent improvements to the security...
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Virtual Router Smashes Speed Records
Software-driven networking will enable new Internet protocols.
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Scientists Hack Into Cars' Computers
It sounds like a Hollywood movie: cybercriminals in a van use a laptop to hack wirelessly into the computer-controlled systems of the car on the road ahead. In...
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Oracle's Android Lawsuit: A Pandora's Box of Serious Evils
A deeper look at Oracle's legal claims show how an Oracle win or a Google give-in could destroy Android and even open source.
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Malware Implicated in Fatal Spanair Plane Crash
Authorities investigating the 2008 crash of Spanair flight 5022 have discovered a central computer system used to monitor technical problems in the aircraft was...
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The MIT Roots of Google
Google’s App Inventor, which lets people with no previous programming experience build applications for mobile phones, draws on decades of MIT research.
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Nist Is Nearly Ready to Pick the Next Hash Algorithm
Developers of the 14 semifinalist algorithms for the new SHA-3 Secure Hash Algorithm standard will defend their work at a U.S. National Institute of Standards and...
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