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Jean Sammet, Co-Designer of a Pioneering Computer Language, Dies at 89
Jean E. Sammet, an early software engineer and a designer of COBOL, a programming language that brought computing into the business mainstream, died on May 20 in...
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Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor of the Web, Plots a Radical Overhaul of His Creation
On the better web Berners-Lee envisions, users control where their data is stored and how it's accessed.
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Third Gravitational Wave Detection, From Black-Hole Merger 3 Billion Light Years Away
The void is rocking and rolling with invisible cataclysms.
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Curiosity Peels Back Layers on Ancient Martian Lake
A long-lasting lake on ancient Mars provided stable environmental conditions that differed significantly from one part of the lake to another, according to a comprehensive...
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Learning About Nutrition From 'food Porn' and Online Quizzes
Researchers at Harvard and Columbia universities conducted a study to determine whether popular online quizzes and food imagery could be leveraged for nutrition...
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Wearable System Helps Visually Impaired sers Navigate
A new system to help visually impaired users navigate employs a three-dimensional camera, a belt with vibrational motors, and a refreshable Braille interface.
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Random Numbers: Hard Times Ahead For Hackers
Researchers at the University of Geneva have developed a new random-number generator based on the principles of quantum physics.
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Robot Design For Dummies
A interactive design tool enables novices and experts to build customized legged or wheeled robots using three-dimensionally-printed components and commercially...
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20 Years After Deep Blue: How AI Has Advanced Since Conquering Chess
Twenty years ago IBM's Deep Blue computer stunned the world by becoming the first machine to beat a reigning world chess champion in a six-game match.
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Mummy Dna nravels Ancient Egyptians' Ancestry
The tombs of ancient Egypt have yielded golden collars and ivory bracelets, but another treasure—human DNA—has proved elusive.
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How a Gene Editing Tool Went From Labs to a Middle-School Classroom
On a Saturday afternoon, 10 students gather at Genspace, a community lab in Brooklyn, to learn how to edit genes.
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Got a Face-Recognition Algorithm? ncle Sam Wants to Review It
The nation's top-level intelligence office, the Director of National Intelligence, wants to find "the most accurate unconstrained face recognition algorithm."
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Mind-Controlled Device Helps Stroke Patients Retrain Brains to Move Paralyzed Hands
Researchers have developed a hand-worn device connected to a brain-computer interface to help stroke patients retrain their brains to recover hand movements.
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Software Simplified
In 2015, geneticist Guy Reeves was trying to configure a free software system called Galaxy to get his bioinformatics projects off the ground.
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Cassini Finds Saturn Moon May Have Tipped Over
Saturn's icy, ocean-bearing moon Enceladus may have tipped over in the distant past, according to recent research from NASA's Cassini mission.
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Faster, More Nimble Drones on the Horizon
Researchers have developed an algorithm to tune a Dynamic Vision Sensor camera to detect only specific changes in brightness that matter for a particular system...
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Here's How to Track the Smartphone Apps That Are Tracking You
Two complementary research projects plan to cooperate further to help smartphone users monitor how apps handle their personally identifiable information.
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High-Silica 'halos' Shed Light on Wet Ancient Mars
Pale "halos" around fractures in bedrock analyzed by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover contain copious silica, indicating that ancient Mars had liquid water for a long...
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Is China Outsmarting America in A.i.?
Sören Schwertfeger finished his postdoctorate research on autonomous robots in Germany, and seemed set to go to Europe or the United States, where artificial intelligence...
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