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AI-Powered Search Engine Makes It Easier to Find Information in the Fight Against COVID-19
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AI-Powered Search Engine Makes It Easier to Find Information in the Fight Against COVID-19

Researchers have developed a dedicated search engine for researchers fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.

How Computers Can Teach Themselves to Recognize Cats
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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...

Careers in Statistics Evolve and Expand
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Careers in Statistics Evolve and Expand

Workers with statistics backgrounds have long been in healthy demand for academic, actuarial, pharmaceutical, or government jobs.

Mining Electronic Records Yields Connections Between Diseases
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Mining Electronic Records Yields Connections Between Diseases

Danish scientists have devised a new way to connect the dots between diseases.

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Computer Scientists Create a Multilingual Search Engine

Universidad Politecnica de Madrid researchers have developed a multilingual search engine that can query a data repository written in Interlingua using questions...

World Champion in Automatic Image and Video Search
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World Champion in Automatic Image and Video Search

A search system developed by researchers at the University of Amsterdam has the potential to make it easier to find an image or video on the Internet or in large...

Dispute Finder: Making the Call on Web 'facts'
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Dispute Finder: Making the Call on Web 'facts'

Intel Labs researcher Rob Ennals has developed Dispute Finder, software that highlights inaccurate online information in pink with a link pointing toward a reliable...

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Personal Discrimination on the Web

Researchers in India and Japan say they have discovered an automatic way of differentiating between Web sites that express personal opinions and corporate marketing...
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