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Computer Brain Escapes Google's X Lab to Supercharge Search
Two years ago Stanford professor Andrew Ng joined Google's X Lab, the research group that's given us Google Glass and the company's driverless cars. His mission...
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Thought Experiment: Build a Supercomputer Replica of the Human Brain
Henry Markram believes his Human Brain Project can simulate all 86 billion neurons in the human brain as well as the 100 trillion connections among them.
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Why Even Google Will Embrace Cellphone Chips in the Data Center
Jason Mars is a rarity. He's an outsider with regular access to Google's data centers.
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New Android Boss Finally Reveals Plans For World's Most Popular Mobile Os
For the past few years, Sundar Pichai has been part of a tag-team routine staged at Google's annual I/O developer conference.
From ACM TechNews
Why Even Google Will Embrace Cellphone Chips in the Data Center
A recent research paper suggests Google can achieve significant cost savings by using specific processors for particular software tasks.
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The Man Behind the Google Brain: Andrew Ng and the Quest For the New AI
There's a theory that human intelligence stems from a single algorithm.
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Google's Chief Internet Evangelist on Creating the Interplanetary Internet
Google chief Internet evangelist and ACM president Vint Cerf has been working on an interplanetary Internet, with protocols capable of handling a space environment...
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Google's Chief Internet Evangelist on Creating the Interplanetary Internet
When some future Mars colonist is able to open his browser and watch a cat in a shark suit chasing a duck while riding a roomba, they will have Vint Cerf to thank...
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How Ray Kurzweil Will Help Google Make the ltimate AI Brain
Google has always been an artificial intelligence company, so it really shouldn't have been a surprise that Ray Kurzweil, one of the leading scientists in the field...
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Bioengineers Build Open Source Language For Programming Cells
Drew Endy wants to build a programming language for the body.
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Smoke Color Is Key Clue to Analyzing Boston Marathon Bombs
As a team of investigators led by the FBI begins deciphering the bombs that killed three people and wounded 150 more in Boston this week, a key clue is already...
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'chinese Google' Opens Artificial-Intelligence Lab in Silicon Valley
It doesn't look like much.
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Mathematicians Predict the Future With Data From the Past
In Issac Asimov's classic science fiction saga Foundation, mathematics professor Hari Seldon predicts the future using what he calls psychohistory.
From ACM TechNews
Tech Titans Plot to Reprogram Internet of the Future
Many tech firms are collaborating to develop an open source software-defined networking project known as OpenDaylight.
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This Material Will Power the Future--If Somebody Can Profit From It
Researchers are working to prove that graphene will enable significant advances in material science, although skeptics question its commercial potential.
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How Google Remade the Computer Science Researcher
John Wilkes spent a year negotiating his move to Google, and when he finally agreed to join the company, he still didn’t know what he’d be working on.
From ACM TechNews
Hackers Compete to Create the Most Insidious Code
The Underhanded C Conference calls on developers to create software that performs some kind of malicious activity but looks innocuous even under scrutiny.
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A Leader of Obama's New Brain Initiative Explains Why We Need It
Neuroscientist William Newsome of Stanford University is one of two scientists tapped by President Obama to lead a new brain research initiative, which the administration...
From ACM Opinion
You'll Never Believe the Data 'wiped' Smartphones Store
Few things are more precious, intimate, and personal than the data on your smartphone.
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