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Smart Phones Could Be sed to Detect Earthquakes
Researchers have demonstrated it is possible to use smartphone global-positioning system data to detect tremors in the earth.
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Space Scientists Create Common Data Hub, Universal Language For Mission Data
A consortium of European researchers have debuted a new common data hub that allows space scientists to compare data from different space missions.
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Teaching Tykes to Program Robots
Tufts University professor and Scratch Jr. creator Marina Umaschi Bers has developed a kit to teach programming to students in pre-kindergarten through second grade...
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How Robots Can Help Build Better Doctors
A team at the University of Notre Dame is developing an improved human patient simulator, a mannequin exhibiting lifelike behaviors to help train medical personnel...
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Do Girls Like Math? The Answer Matters
Although the gender imbalance in science and technology is a major issue in affluent countries such as the U.S., it is almost non-existent in many less developed...
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New U.s.-Japan Collaborations Bring Big Data Approaches to Disaster Response
The U.S. National Science Foundation and the Japan Science and Technology Agency will jointly fund six collaborative big data projects to enhance disaster management...
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Hoax-Detecting Software Spots Fake Papers
Software programs that generate nonsense computer science papers have become sources of embarrassment for major academic publishers.
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One Thousand Genes You Could Live Without
Researchers have unveiled the largest ever set of full genomes from a single population: Iceland.
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Smarter Smart Grids
North Carolina State University researchers are using cloud computing resources to analyze smart grid data.
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Developing Infrastructure For Data Sharing Around the World
Twice a year, members of the Research Data Alliance meet face-to-face at plenary meetings worldwide to coordinate activities and advance their efforts.
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Just in Time: Tips For Computer Science Teachers When They Need It
Researchers are developing online professional development resources to provide "just-in-time" support for computer science teachers .
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From Massive Supercomputers Come Tiniest Transistors
Purdue University researchers have created a set of software tools that can predict the future behavior of nanoscale transistors. The software simulates the phenomena...
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Rise of the Fembots: Why Artificial Intelligence Is Often Female
A disproportionate percentage of artificial intelligence systems have female personas, and researchers have struggled to determine why this phenomenon occurs.
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Artificial Intelligence Bests Humans at Classic Arcade Games
A recent article recounts how a team of artificial intelligence researchers trained a computer to play, and in some cases beat, human players in several arcade...
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A Coast-to-Coast Picture of America's Cacophony of Sounds
The U.S. National Park Service used algorithms to predict the loudness of a typical summer day from coast to coast.
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An Exclusive Look Inside Darpa's Plan to Visualize Cyberoperations
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is working on a new project that would visualize the often highly abstract world of cyberoperations.
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Walking, Driving, and Riding in a Winter Wonderland
A geographer at the University of Maryland is using big data culled from social media to develop better models of the ways people behave when snow begins to fall...
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Monkey Mustaches and Beards Help Algorithm Recognize Faces
New York University researchers have developed an algorithm that can correctly identify colorful monkeys called guenons by their faces.
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Programming Safety Into Self-Driving Cars
University of Massachusetts, Amherst professor Shlomo Zilberstein has been investigating ways of helping semi-autonomous systems to better make decisions.
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