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Professor's Research Lights p Scientific, Media Interest
University of Wyoming computer science professor Jeff Clune is the director of the Evolving Artificial Intelligence Lab, which conducts research on deep learning...
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a Receives $1.9m Nsf Award to Test Computer-Assisted Surgical Training
University of Arizona researchers are using a $1.9-million grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation to develop a computerized surgical training tool that...
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How to Steal the Mind of an AI
Machine-learning models can be reverse engineered, and basic safeguards are little help in ameliorating attacks, according to a paper presented at the 25th Annual...
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SC Demos How Wearable Technology Can Improve Cancer Treatment
USC researchers participating in the Cancer Moonshot exhibit led by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, demonstrating a project that aims to provide doctors with real...
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How to Steal an AI
In the burgeoning field of computer science known as machine learning, engineers often refer to the artificial intelligences they create as "black box" systems:...
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Why Apple Can Be Forced to Turn Logs of Your Imessage Contacts Over to Police
When a user sends someone a message through Apple's iMessage feature, Apple encrypts that message between Apple devices so that only the sender and recipient can...
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The Computer Voting Revolution Is Already Crappy, Buggy, and Obsolete
Six days after Memphis voters went to the polls last October to elect a mayor and other city officials, a local computer programmer named Bennie Smith sat on his...
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Researchers Make Progress Toward Computer Video Recognition
Google researchers are working to advance video-recognition technology, which Rajat Monga on Google's Brain team says is due to progress in deep-learning models...
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A Combination of Machine Learning and Game Theory Helps Fight Elephant Poaching in ganda
Technology that integrates machine learning and game theory, called Protection Assistant for Wildlife Security (PAWS), is being tested in Uganda as a way to fight...
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White House to Bolster STEM Education, Close Skills Gap
The Obama administration has launched a new advanced placement computer science course as part of an interdisciplinary approach to improve STEM education for underrepresented...
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Contract Expiration to End .s. Authority Over Internet Ip Addresses
Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016, officially marked the end of the U.S. government's control over the Internet's most basic functions with the expiration of its contract...
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Drone Learns 'to See' in Zero-Gravity
A small drone has learned how to determine distances using only one camera during an experiment aboard the International Space Station.
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Will Driverless-Car Makers Learn to Share?
Last Monday, the Obama Administration released a hundred-and-twelve-page policy tome, "Federal Automated Vehicles Policy," which, despite its sleep-inducing title...
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Mission Complete: Rosetta's Journey Ends in Daring Descent to Comet
ESA's historic Rosetta mission has concluded as planned, with the controlled impact onto the comet it had been investigating for more than two years.
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Building a Sustainable, Intelligent, and Power-Efficient Cloud
The European Union-funded CLOUDLIGHTNING project seeks to construct a more efficient, heterogeneous, and user-centric cloud.
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Removing Gender Bias From Algorithms
Machine-learning systems taught interesting patterns from data and documents fed into them could also pick up gender stereotypes from those sources.
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Iarpa to Develop Early-Warning System For Cyberattacks
The U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has launched a multi-year initiative to create technologies that could provide early warning of cyberattacks...
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Deep Learning Boosts Google Translate Tool
Google's online translation service, Google Translate, will soon be using a new algorithm that is entirely based on deep learning, the company announced on 27 September...
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