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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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IBM's Jeopardy Strategy: Divide and Conquer
When it comes tackling a challenge as tough as answering a human question, the best computational approach may be to break the job down into multiple parts and...
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The Power of 'convergence'
In white paper, MIT scientists discuss potential for revolutionary advances in biomedicine and other fields.
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Nanowriting a Big Step in Electronics
The ability to write metal lines that are less than 5 nanometers wide has been demonstrated by a University of Illinois research team, and this could impact the...
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Graphics Ability Is the New Goal For Chip Makers
In the good old days, it was all about speed.
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Computers That See You and Keep Watch Over You
Hundreds of correctional officers from prisons across America descended last spring on a shuttered penitentiary in West Virginia for annual training exercises...
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Android Programming's ps and Downs
As smartphones using Google's Android operating system become mainstream, James Steele and Nelson To are in a pretty good position.
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Electric Currents Move Racetrack Memory Bits with Precision
The moving bits in the proposed data-storage scheme do not stop and start instantaneously, but their motion is easy to quantify.
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Earth Project Aims to 'simulate Everything'
An international group of scientists are aiming to create a simulator that can replicate everything happening on Earth—from global weather patterns and the spread...
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Massive Collider Churning Out Data
This year the world's largest science experiment roared to life. Deep beneath the French-Swiss border, the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, has spent the year accelerating...
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Ibm Expects Holographic Phone Calls, Air-Powered Batteries By 2015
By 2015, your mobile phone will project a 3D image of anyone who calls and your laptop will be powered by kinetic energy. At least that’s what International Business...
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Intel: Why a 1,000-Core Chip Is Feasible
Chipmaker Intel has been investigating the issue of scaling the number of cores in chips through its Terascale Computing Research Program, which has so far yielded...
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Can Washington Get America's Economy Moving Again with Cash Rewards?
In the flurry of activity at the end of the 111th Congress, the reauthorization of the "America COMPETES Act" went mostly unnoticed. But it is a little bill that...
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Nonlinear Systems Made Easy
Pablo Parrilo has discovered a new approach to convex optimization that creates order out of chaos in complex nonlinear systems.
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The Clock Is Ticking on Encryption
Today's secure cipher-text may be tomorrow's open book.
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Sun's Gravity Could Be Tapped to Call E.t.
Since massive stars cause light to bend, focal points may be found.
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'Synthetic Biology' Holds Promise, But Vigilance Needed
Far more promise than peril lurks in "synthetic biology," the emerging technology of man-made life, a presidential panel reports yesterday.
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Computer Spin Memory: Physicists Read Data Stored in Atomic Nuclei
University of Utah physicists stored data for 112 seconds in the "spins" of atomic nuclei. Their work is a step toward using spin memory for faster conventional...
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An Exhibition That Gets to the (square) Root of Sumerian Math
Papyrus, parchment, paper ... videotape, DVDs, Blu-ray discs—long after all these materials have crumbled to dust, the first recording medium of all, the cuneiform...
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Wireless at the Speed of Plasma
A new type of antenna could dramatically change high-speed wireless communications, miniature radar, and energy weapons. The antenna consists of thousands of diodes...
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