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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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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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Business Secretary Cable Announces Partners in the Alan Turing Institute
The U.K.'s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has selected five universities to lead the Alan Turing Institute.
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Have We Found Alien Life?
Kenneth Nealson is looking awfully sane for a man who’s basically just told me that he has a colony of aliens incubating in his laboratory.
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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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Diamond Defect May Lead to a Qubit Computer
A research group is looking to exploit a special kind of diamond defect in a project that could benefit those working to design a quantum computer.
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Sciserver: Big Data Infrastructure For Science
Researchers are adapting tools developed for massive astronomy data sets into online big data storage and analytics tools that can be used across scientific disciplines...
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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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European Genetic Identity May Stretch Back 36,000 Years
Europeans carry a motley mix of genes from at least three ancient sources: indigenous hunter-gatherers within Europe, people from the Middle East, and northwest...
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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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Experts Identify Easy Way to Improve Smartphone Security
Purdue University researchers recently led a U.S. National Science Foundation-funded project investigating computer security.
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Taking the Census, With Cellphones
A new study by Belgian researchers demonstrates that big data analytics can turn cellphone records into highly granular population density data.
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Virtual Reality Could Let Astronauts 'go to the Beach'
The Virtual Space Station is a virtual reality system that could provide an escape for astronauts on long space missions.
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Geospatial Data Project Puts Major Issues on the Map
A project funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation aims to create a Web-based system for hosting, processing, analyzing, and sharing geospatial data.
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A Peek Inside the Internet's Favorite File-Sharing Network
A new study takes a deep look at the behavior of users of the BitTorrent peer-to-peer file-sharing network. Researchers were able to track what sorts of media...
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