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'big Data' Means Business Needs Mathematicians
The proliferation of ways to measure things—point-of-service terminals, Web analytics, geographic and temporal records, even semantic information—means businesses...
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Mining Data For Better Medicine
The antidepressant Paxil was approved for sale in 1992, the cholesterol-lowering drug Pravachol in 1996. Company studies proved that each drug, on its own, works...
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Replacing Lost Abilities With a Robot
Researchers at Georgia Tech and Willow Garage have developed a special user interface that enables a mute and partially paralyzed stroke victim to control a robot...
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Workplace Robots Need a Better View
Robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks says a new generation of industrial robots could be enabled by better machine vision.
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App-Specific Processors to Fight Dark Silicon
University of California, San Diego researchers working on the GreenDroid project have developed software that scans the Android operating system and its most popular...
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Tools For Better Web Design
Stanford University's Human Computer Interaction group creates tools to help Web designers take advantage of open source programs to improve and adapt designs more...
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Designs With a Deeper Purpose
Microsoft software design specialist Bill Buxton wants developers to focus on innovations that can improve humans' quality of life.
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Like Europa, Titan May Have a Giant Subsurface Ocean
In the seven years Cassini has spent orbiting Saturn, the spacecraft has sent back mountains of data that has changed our view of the ringed planet and its moons...
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A Search Engine for the Human Body
Microsoft researcher Antonio Criminisi has led the development of a search tool that indexes medical images of the human body and automatically finds organs and...
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Turning Augmented Reality Into an Open Standard
A research team at Georgia Tech hopes to make augmented reality on smart phones more useful by developing an open standard for it.
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A Tangled Web of Shortened Links
Link-shortening services may be slowing down parts of the Internet, according to the Foundation for Research and Technology and Microsoft Research. And it might...
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Your Next Wallet Is Calling
"Contactless" hardware lets phones and gadgets pay with a tap, but the coming plethora of apps that use it may confuse users.
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Adding Human Intelligence to Software
MIT researchers have developed TurKit, a toolkit that enables users to write algorithms to coordinate online workers using Javascript and create human intelligence...
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Mapping the Brain on a Massive Scale
Scanning 1,200 brains could help researchers chart the organ's fine structure and better understand neurological disorders.
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How to Remake Life
Venter Institute researchers have made the first viable cell with a synthetic genome.
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Google Offers Cloud-Based Learning Engine
Providing developers with machine learning on tap could unleash a flood of smarter apps.
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What Does 'p vs. Np' Mean For the Rest of Us?
A proposed "proof" is probably a bust—but even failed attempts can advance computer science.
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An Implantable Antenna
A prototype silk biosensor could someday alert doctors to signs of disease.
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New Focus For Digital Photography
Software that gives users more control of a camera could revolutionize photography.
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