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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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Artificial Life Forms Evolve Basic Intelligence
For generations, the Avidians have been cloning themselves quietly in a box. They're not perfect, but most of their mutations go unnoticed. Then something remarkable...
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Can't Place That Face?
Tel Aviv University researcher Galit Yovel is combing cognitive psychology with brain imaging and electrophysiology to study how the brain processes information...
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nraveling the Matrix
Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Gilbert Strang has developed a way to split certain types of matrices into simpler ones, which could help produce...
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Team-Working Robots Huddle Together to Boost Comms
When you are in hostile territory, it pays to stick together—especially if you are a robot. Falling into line will be easier with an innovative communication system...
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Ornl, Allinea Prep Debugging Tool For Petascale Supercomputers
A collaboration between ORNL and software toolmaker Allinea Software has produced a formidable weapon in the fight against software application bugs.
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Customizing Science Instruction With Digital Libraries
Middle and high school teachers participating in the Curriculum Customization Service program use animations, images and interactive media to help engage Denver...
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Group Devises New Method For Securing Location-Sensitive Data
UCLA computer scientists have shown that cryptography based solely on physical location is possible by using quantum mechanics. The method enables users to encrypt...
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Machine Science
Manually tracking all the published science relevant to a scientist's research is an impossible task, but it is predicted that computers capable of generating many...
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A Smoother Street View
Microsoft researchers have developed Street Slide, street-level imaging software that could help people find locations more quickly on the Web, as well as leave...
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A Smoother Street View
Microsoft's new toy allows for a more seamless walk down an online avenue.
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So Many Bugs, So Little Time
Tools that find serious bugs automatically could lead to safer, more stable software.
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Perfecting Synthetic Sounds For Animated Worlds
If computers can generate the imagery in animated movies like Toy Story 3 and Despicable Me, why can't they also generate the sound effects to go with them?
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Cut-and-Paste Simplicity For Computer Animation
Tools developed by European researchers bring cut-and-paste simplicity to gaming and animation. Users will be able to cut-and-paste complex elements like emotion...
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Xml Pioneer Pitches Functional Programming For Concurrency
XML co-inventor Tim Bray says that functional programming, rather than threads, is the best option for programmers developing code for multicore processors.
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New Languages, and Why We Need Them
Creators of two dozen new programming languages—some designed to enable powerful new Web applications and mobile devices—presented their work last week in Portland...
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Gödel Prize and Other CS Awards
Sanjeev Arora, Joseph S.B. Mitchell, and other researchers are recognized for their contributions to computer science.
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Ads that Match a Web Page's Images
Using the contents of images or videos to target Web ads could improve click-through.
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Fewer Ads, More Clicks
Search engines get smarter at predicting when we'll respond to a pitch.
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A Trip Beyond the Edge of the Observable Universe
If you want to see what outer space looks like, there may be no better way to do so than to have Carter Emmart take you on a ride there.
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