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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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Researchers Struggle to Measure Big Data's Impact
The impact of big data on the U.S. economy is huge, but how huge isn’t easily determined.
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Mobile App Puts Brakes on Texting While Driving
Everyone knows that texting while driving kills, but that’s not enough to incentivize many people, especially teens, to keep their eyes on the road. Now a new mobile...
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New Pcs That Ship With Preloaded Malware
Open the bubble wrap on a new PC and the one thing you don't expect to find is preloaded malware.
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Ethical Robots: Let Their Artificial Consciences Be Their Guides
When lethal autonomous robots take their place on the field of battle and function independent of human control, what will govern the decisions of these next-gen...
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Super-Fast Broadband: Build It and They will Come–Maybe
When the Internet pipelines in cities like Chattanooga and Kansas City are accelerated to super-fast broadband, the leading-edge technology is expected to generate...
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In Honor of Alan Turing
Thirty-two of the 39 living A.M. Turing Award laureates gathered in San Francisco to pay tribute to "the father of CS" and discuss the past, present, and future...
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The Technology Race For Intelligent E-Textbooks
The next-generation college textbook will undoubtedly be an "intelligent e-textbook."
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Success of Wpi’s Robotics Program Inspires Other niversities
The success of the nation’s first undergrad robotics engineering program has inspired two universities that are now experiencing the very same challenges.
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Software Enables Pcs to Solve Problems That Once Required the Cloud
A new software program running on a single laptop or PC can, in some cases, solve bigger problems in less time than other available distributed frameworks.
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Five Reasons Why It's A Great Time to Major in Computer Science
While computer science always seems to be an excellent career choice, this happens to be a particularly great time to pursue a CS major, say experts.
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Turing Awardees Pay Tribute to
The Turing Centenary Celebration featured the first gathering, in one place, of 33 of the 39 living ACM A.M. Turing Award laureates.
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Lost and Found
Researchers discover computer pioneer Konrad Zuse's long-forgotten Z9, the world's first program-controlled binary relay calculator using floating-point arithmetic...
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Flame Malware Required World-Class Crypto Abilities
Flame appears to be the first public example of malware “in the wild” using a cryptanalytic attack on digital signatures using the MD-5 hash function.
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Georgia Tech Launches Malware Intelligence Project
Got malware? If so, the Georgia Tech Research Insititute is interested in hearing from you.
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An Influential Theoretician
Sanjeev Arora, winner of the 2011 ACM-Infosys Award, discusses his pivotal role in theoretical computer science.
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Adaptive Networks Aim to Thwart Cybercriminals
Cybercriminals who take aim at computer networks will find it more difficult to hit their mark if their target is a constantly moving one.
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niversity of Florida Endangers CS Department
Four weeks into the academic tussle between computer science students and the administration of the University of Florida, the controversy surrounding a drastic...
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Americans
It is taking Americans a bit longer than the rest of the world to catch on to the idea of “mobile wallets.”
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A Workshop Revival
The success of Germany's Dagstuhl Seminars has inspired a proliferation of Dagstuhl-like venues, especially in India.
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