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How Computers Can Teach Themselves to Recognize Cats
In June 2012, a network of 16,000 computers trained itself to recognize a cat by looking at 10 million images from YouTube videos. Today, the technique is used...
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Could a Computer Predict the Next Pandemic?
In a new study, researchers used machine learning to make accurate forecasts of whether animals carry dangerous pathogens.
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Exploring a New Frontier of Cyber-Physical Systems: The Human Body
The U.S. National Science Foundation recently announced $8.75 million in awards to two programs developing state-of-the-art medical and cyber-physical systems.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Mathematician Tries to Solve Wave Equations
University of California, Los Angeles professor Terence Tao is using computers to help him solve a tricky mathematical question.
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This Computer Knows When to Hold 'em, Knows When to Fold 'em
Card sharks, beware. A new program cannot be beaten at a variety of poker called heads-up limit Texas Hold 'em—at least in a human lifetime—a team of computer scientists...
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Firmer Footing For Robots With Smart Walking Sticks
The SupraPed robotic platform uses "smart staffs" inspired by walking sticks to better balance and move over uneven terrain.
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Investments Boost Neurotechnology Career Prospects
Mark Cembrowski was a graduate student in applied mathematics with a taste for neurobiology at Northwestern University when he discovered a way to marry his two...
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Advances in Computer Mobility, Connectivity, and Networks
Researchers are developing programs and platforms that will ensure systems work despite power outages and other issues associated with mobility and connectivity...
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