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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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New Mathematical Framework Formalizes Oddball Programming Techniques
MIT researchers have developed a mathematical framework that enables developers to reason rigorously about sloppy computation, providing mathematical guarantees...
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An Influential Theoretician
Sanjeev Arora, winner of the 2011 ACM-Infosys Award, discusses his pivotal role in theoretical computer science.
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Game Changer
Judea Pearl's passionate advocacy of the importance of probability and causality helped revolutionize artificial intelligence.
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Welcome to the Multiverse
"What really interests me is whether God had any choice in creating the world." That's how Albert Einstein, in his characteristically poetic way, asked whether...
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Meet the Man Who Invented the Instructions For the Internet
Steve Crocker was there when the Internet was born.
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New Research Could Mean Faster Computers and Better Smart Phones
University of Gothenburg researchers have found that graphene and carbon nanotubes could help reduce the size and power consumption of electronic circuits.
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Intel Futurist on Why We Should Not Fear the Future
Much of Intel's success as a microprocessor manufacturer over the past four decades has come from the company's ability to understand and anticipate the future...
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Daniela Rus's Robotic Sand
History holds lessons, even for those designing futuristic robots.
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Picking the Brains of Strangers Improves Efforts to Make Sense of Online Information
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft Research recently presented their findings on distributed sensemaking at CHI 2012.
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Researchers Demonstrate New Way to Control Nonvolatile Magnetic Memory Devices
The spin Hall effect is useful for memory applications because it can switch magnetic poles back and forth, according to researchers at Cornell University.
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Thomas Sterling: 'i Think We Will Never Reach Zettaflops'
As supercomputing makes its way through the petascale era, the future of the technology has never seemed so uncertain.
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DARPA Wants Gamers to Design Medical Training Software
DARPA is seeking proposals for a game-based interactive system to train medical first responders.
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Graphene-Based Terahertz Devices: The Wave of the Future
University of Notre Dame researchers have been able to manipulate terahertz (THz) electromagnetic waves using atomically thin graphene layers, which they say sets...
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A Brief History of Warnings About the Demise of Moore's Law
Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku rekindled a perennial discussion last week by saying Moore's Law, the pacesetter of technological advancement over the last half...
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Hovering Drones Flock Together Using 3D Vision
If you're going to have a group of drones flying around each other, it would probably be wise to have each of them know where the other is.
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Google Spdy Accelerates Mobile Web
The SPDY protocol can help provide much faster access to mobile Web sites, according to Google engineers.
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Moore's Law Lives Another Day
"[Gordon] Moore is my boss, and if your boss makes a law, then you'd better follow it," says Mark Bohr, who leads Intel's efforts to make advances in microchip...
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Nist Physicists Benchmark Quantum Simulator With Hundreds of Qubits
U.S. NIST researchers have developed a quantum simulator that can engineer interactions among hundreds of qubits, which is 10 times more than previous devices....
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California Chosen as Home for Computing Institute
The Simons Foundation, which specializes in science and math research, has chosen the University of California, Berkeley, as host for an ambitious new center for...
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