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How AI Helped the FCC Auction Off $19-Billion Worth of Radio Spectrum
Researchers in March organized a $19-billion auction of 84 megahertz of radio spectrum using artificial intelligence.
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Government Researchers Hope to Teach New Robots Some of the Old Tricks of Etiquette
Researchers are working to enable robots to learn human etiquette.
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Russian Researchers Developed a Reliable Forward Error Correction Method For Digital Data
Researchers at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University have proposed a new channel coding method for the fifth generation of wireless systems.
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Virtual Reality Eases Phantom Limb Pain
A new system uses virtual reality technology to relieve sufferers of phantom limb pain.
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Artificial Intelligence Prevails at Predicting Supreme Court Decisions
A study led by the Illinois Institute of Technology suggests artificial intelligence can outperform legal scholars in the prediction of U.S. Supreme Court rulings...
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Computers Learn to Cooperate Better Than Humans
Computers have for the first time trained themselves to cooperate in games in which the goal is to achieve the best possible outcome for all players.
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Research Teaches Machines to Decipher the Dawn Chorus
The U.K. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is supporting research on deciphering the timing and sequences of bird calls.
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Brainlike Computers Are a Black Box. Scientists Are Finally Peering Inside
Researchers say they have developed a method for examining neural networks as they operate and visualizing how they reach conclusions.
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In the Twinkling of an Eye
The process of automatically tracking the direction of a person's gaze is making significant progress.
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Your Next Nurse Could Be a Robot
Researchers from Italy's Polytechnic University of Milan led an international team that trained a robot to imitate natural human actions.
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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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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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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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Robots to Provide a Steadying Hand at the Right Time
The U.S. National Science Foundation is funding several robotics-related projects across the U.S. designed to improve people's safety and well-being.
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Bringing Programming--and Social Change--to Girls
A group of eighth-grade girls participating in the U.S. National Science Foundation's Co-Robots for CompuGirls event programmed a pair of humanoid robots.
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Flight of the Robobee
Researchers recently demonstrated their "RoboBees" aerial microrobots now can perch during flight to save energy, in the same way as bats, birds, and butterflies...
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