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ta Work to Safeguard Cyber-Physical Systems Made With Legacy Subsystems
University of Texas at Arlington professor has received a $397,907 U.S. Air Force grant to develop formal methods for identifying cyber-physical system mismatches...
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Artificial Neuronal Network Learns to se Human Language
Researchers have developed a cognitive model which is able to learn to communicate using human language.
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Georgia Tech Trains Watson AI to "chat," Spark More Creativity in Humans
Georgia Institute of Technology researchers are using IBM's Watson to advance how computers could help humans creatively solve problems.
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The Dream Life of Driverless Cars
On a brisk afternoon in October, an oddly equipped Honda CR-V inched through London traffic.
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Single Artificial Neuron Taught to Recognize Hundreds of Patterns
Artificial intelligence is a field in the midst of rapid, exciting change. That's largely because of an improved understanding of how neural networks work and the...
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Edward Snowden Explains How to Reclaim Your Privacy
Last month, I met Edward Snowden in a hotel in central Moscow, just blocks away from Red Square.
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Bringing Iphone-Style Medical Research to the Android World
Weill Cornell Medical College professor Deborah Estrin says the ResearchStack project seeks to introduce an open source software framework similar to ResearchKit...
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.s. Government Lab Dabbles in New Computer Designs
The Los Alamos National Laboratory is seeking to replace conventional computer systems by developing and obtaining new computer designs.
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Court Says Tracking Web Histories Can Violate Wiretap Act
Federal courts have long given the government leeway to surveil and collect so-called "non-content" data—records of the senders and recipients of calls and emails...
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The Gene Hackers
At thirty-four, Feng Zhang is the youngest member of the core faculty at the Broad Institute of Harvard and M.I.T.
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The 116 Photos Nasa Picked to Explain Our World to Aliens
When Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 launched into space in 1977, their mission was to explore the outer solar system, and over the following decade, they did so admirably...
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To Infinity: How Pixar Brought Computers to the Movies
Ed Catmull's office could be a window into the brain of Pixar.
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Baidu, the 'chinese Google,' Is Teaching AI to Spot Malware
Andrew Ng picks up his iPhone and opens an app called FaceYou.
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pgrade Helps Nasa Study Mineral Veins on Mars
Scientists now have a better understanding about a site with the most chemically diverse mineral veins NASA's Curiosity rover has examined on Mars, thanks in part...
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Mars' Moon Phobos Is Slowly Falling Apart
The long, shallow grooves lining the surface of Phobos are likely early signs of the structural failure that will ultimately destroy this moon of Mars.
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The Nsa School: How the Intelligence Community Gets Smarter, Secretly
Leonard Reinsfelder's wife found a note on her car as she was leaving a shopping center one day: "Have your husband give us a call. We think we could use him."
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The Crispr Quandary
One day in March 2011, Emmanuelle Charpentier, a geneticist who was studying flesh-eating bacteria, approached Jennifer Doudna, an award-winning scientist, at a...
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Researchers Take Two Big Steps Toward Quantum Computing
Two related teams of Austrian researchers have made a pair of discoveries related to quantum entanglement they describe in two new papers.
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To Study the Brain, a Doctor Puts Himself Under the Knife
Phil Kennedy no longer saw any other way to get the data.
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