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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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Robin Milner: The Elegant Pragmatist
Remembering a rich legacy in verification, languages, and concurrency.
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Mine Your Business
Researchers are developing new techniques to gauge employee productivity from information flow.
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Beyond the Smart Grid
The electrical grid isn't the only utility acquiring intelligence, as water and gas meters throughout the U...
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Straightening Out Heavy Tails
A better understanding of heavy-tailed probability distributions can improve activities from Internet commerce to the design of server farms.
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Software Helps Researchers Find Meaning in Massive Scientific Data Sets
Researchers at Indiana University's Data to Insight Center have released XMC Cat, software that makes sorting the massive amounts of data produced by advanced scientific...
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The Automotive Internet, From Vision to Reality
The European Union-funded CVIS project aims to deploy an advanced communications infrastructure that can facilitate new ways to drastically upgrade the safety,...
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Researchers Design & Test Microfabricated Planar Ion Traps
Georgia Tech Research Institute is designing, fabricating and testing planar ion traps that can be more readily combined into large, interconnected trap arrays....
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An Invisible Touch For Mobile Devices
A simple gesture-sensing interface could add new meaning to mobile-phone conversations.
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Researchers Turn to Supercomputing to Find Malaria's Soft Spot
Intellectual Ventures builds computer simulations to better understand how malaria spreads and how it responds to eradication efforts.
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Eye Tracking For Mobile Control
It's hard sending a text message with arms full of groceries or while wearing winter gloves. Voice control is one alternative to using your fingers, but researchers...
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Researchers Build Mathematical Models For Cancer Treatment
South Dakota State University mathematicians are helping doctors of the Mayo Clinic build mathematical models to fine-tune an innovative strategy to treat cancer...
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3-D Model of Blood Flow By Supercomputer Predicts Heart Attacks
The Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne has used the Cadmos supercomputer to develop software that can create an accurate model of an individual's cardiovascular...
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MIT Gestural Gloves Bring Back the '80s
Somewhere in your closet there's a pair of gloves straight out of "Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo." Well, if you dust them off and fire up your Webcam, you'll have...
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Google and Vmware Wed at the App Engine
Google has formed an intriguing partnership with VMware, as the company looks to build out its online business software services for companies.
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James Bond-Style Tech Ready For Emergencies
Instantly deployable James Bond-style information and communication technologies are now available to coordinate disaster response among diverse agencies and NGOs...
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Software Tool Helps Tap Into The Power Of Graphics Processing
A research team from North Carolina State University has developed software that could make it easier for traditional software programs to take advantage of powerful...
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As Attention Wanders, Rethinking the Autopilot
A captain returned to the cockpit after taking a bathroom break and found the first officer facing away from the instruments and talking to a flight attendant....
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Software that Learns By Watching
Overworked and much in demand, IT support staff can't be in two places at once. But software designed to watch and learn as they carry out common tasks could soon...
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Fantastic Journey to Next-Generation Virtual Reality Cave
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have received a grant to develop the "next-generation" CAVE virtual environment, a 3-D research tool for use...
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