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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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Infosys Foundation sa, Acm, and Csta Announce Awards For Teaching Excellence in CS
ACM, the Computer Science Teachers Association, and Infosys Foundation announced the rollout of the Awards for Teaching Excellence in Computer Science.
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Quantum Teleportation Was Just Achieved Over More Than 7 Km of City Fibre
Quantum teleportation just moved out of the lab and into the real world, with two independent teams of scientists successfully sending quantum information across...
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Scientific Visualizations: A Bridge to Knowledge
A conversation with Chris Johnson, founding director of the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute.
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New 'gel' May Be Step Toward Clothing That Computes
A team of researchers from the University of Pittsburgh has designed a model of a material capable of computational pattern recognition using an oscillating gel...
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It's Official: You're Lost in a Directionless niverse
Ever peer into the night sky and wonder whether space is really the same in all directions or if the cosmos might be whirling about like a vast top?
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Xsede 2.0: The Nsf Doubles Down
The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded $110 million to the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment.
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Machine Learning Techniques Enable Models From Partial Image Data
Researchers say they have developed a method to automatically generate complete three-dimensional building models of a given area by using partial images.
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Flood Forecasting Gets Major pgrade
Researchers have created the National Water Model, which provides forecasts, data, and decision support to emergency services and water management personnel.
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sing Data to Better nderstand Climate Change
A University of Minnesota-led research team is using data-driven approaches to better understand the environmental and social impacts of climate change.
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New Robot Overcomes Obstacles
Researchers at Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences have developed Ourobot, a robotic system that looks like a bicycle chain consisting of 12 fist-sized segments...
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How to Make Democracy Harder to Hack
With voting machines and related tools under threat by cybercriminals, the pressure is on to bolster the security of democratic infrastructure.
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Machines v. Hackers: Cybersecurity's Artificial Intelligence Future
Experts predict machines will perform increasingly complex cybersecurity operations over time, reducing the need for humans and facilitating a paradigm shift in...
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Robots Could Hack Turing Test By Keeping Silent
The Turing test, the quintessential evaluation designed to determine if something is a computer or a human, may have a fatal flaw, new research suggests.
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Tackling Intractable Computing Problems
Princeton University researchers used a $10-million U.S. National Science Foundation Expeditions in Computing award to find the sources of intractability.
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A Bug in Fmri Software Could Invalidate 15 Years of Brain Research
The past 15 years of human brain research could be invalidated by a recently discovered bug in functional magnetic resonance imaging software.
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This Sculpture Was Designed and 3-D Printed By an AI Artist
Information Technology University of Copenhagen professor Joel Lehman and colleagues have created an artificial intelligence that can design and generate physical...
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Creating Printable, Programmable Machines
Daniela Rus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is pioneering the science of printable, foldable, and do-it-yourself robotics.
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Barbara Liskov, Weizmann Women and Science Award
"I didn’t even know computers existed."
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Service Robots Are Coming to Help US
A U.S. National Science Foundation program aims to advance and integrate robotics into people-centered service systems in homes, hospitals, and elder-care facilities...
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