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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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Overcoming Structural Uncertainty in Computer Models
Researchers have developed a technique for incorporating judgments into a model about structural uncertainty that stems from building an "incorrect" model.
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Big Data Reaches to the Stratosphere
A position paper developed at the recent Big Data and Extreme-scale Computing workshop emphasizes the goals and challenges of big data analytics.
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Inside the Presidential Innovation Fellows Program
The White House Office of Science and Technology's Jennifer Pahlka discusses the Presidential Innovation Fellows program, which she helps oversee.
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As Human Laws Grapple with Robots, There Are No Easy Answers
There's been a lot of buzz about robots lately.
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The Complexonaut
When he was in elementary school, Scott Aaronson, like many mathematically precocious kids of his generation, dreamed of making his own video games.
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A Veteran Programmer Explains How the Stock Market Became "Rigged"
A small group of financial firms are using their technological superiority to skim the top off the market, Michael Lewis claims in his new book "Flash Boys."
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Explore Angkor Wat with Google Street View
Angkor, what remains of the capital of the Khmer Empire, is an incredibly beautiful place, but it's also very remote: tucked in the Cambodian jungle, at the intersection...
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How Your Location Data Is Being Used to Predict the Events You Will Want to Attend
Researchers are tapping data from location-based social media network Foursquare to learn what makes people more likely to attend one event rather than another.
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Harnessing the Power of Hashtags to Tackle Climate Change
The #Climate mobile app is designed to help build momentum for climate change policies by connecting influential persons to nonprofits via a social network model...
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A Fundamental Theory to Model the Mind
In 1999, the Danish physicist Per Bak proclaimed to a group of neuroscientists that it had taken him only 10 minutes to determine where the field had gone wrong...
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UW Gesture Technology Increases Efficiency of Hands-Free Use
AllSee is a new gesture-recognition system that brings the technology to mobile devices for the first time.
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Wanna Build a Rocket? NASA's About to Give Away a Mountain of Its Code
NASA plans to publish a list of more than 1,000 software projects it has developed, with instructions on how users can acquire the associated software code for...
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Google Glass Hackathon Spawns Bizarre No-Touch Apps
At a recent Google Glass hackathon, which developers used a new language called Wearscript to create a wide range of new applications for the wearable technology...
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If You Like Immersion, You'll Love This Reality
The news that Facebook paid $2 billion for a virtual reality start-up, Oculus VR, might strike you as a bit zany.
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Cheaper Joints and Digits Bring the Robot Revolution Closer
The Atlas humanoid robot, unveiled last year by Boston Dynamics, a company later acquired by Google, is a marvel.
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Cerf: Classified Nsa Work Mucked p Security For Early Tcp/ip
Internet pioneer Vint Cerf says that he had access to cutting edge cryptographic technology in the mid 1970s that could have made TCP/IP more secure – too bad the...
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Orienteering For Robots
Suppose you're trying to navigate an unfamiliar section of a big city, and you’re using a particular cluster of skyscrapers as a reference point.
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The Story of Cortana, Microsoft's Siri Killer
Technically, Cortana isn't supposed to exist for at least another 500 years, but that's not stopping Microsoft from bringing her to life this week.
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NASA Space Assets Detect Ocean inside Saturn Moon
NASA's Cassini spacecraft and Deep Space Network have uncovered evidence Saturn's moon Enceladus harbors a large underground ocean of liquid water, furthering scientific...
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