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Back to Self-Driving School: The Simulator Teaching Vehicle Ais Road Sense
Researchers have developed a simulator employing convolutional neural networks and deep learning to enhance how vehicle artificial intelligence systems manage environmental...
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Pcast Releases Report on Ensuring .s. Leadership in Semiconductors
The Computing Research Association has been involved in shaping public policy of relevance to computing research for more than two decades.
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Complexity Theory Problem Strikes Back
The legendary graph isomorphism problem may be harder than a 2015 result seemed to suggest.
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Your Home Planet, as Seen From Mars
From the most powerful telescope orbiting Mars comes a new view of Earth and its moon, showing continent-size detail on the planet and the relative size of the...
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CLA Mathematicians Bring Ocean to Life For Disney's 'moana'
University of California, Los Angeles researchers applied their knowledge of math, physics, and computer science to help animate "Moana," a three-dimensional computer...
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States Wire p Roads as Cars Get Smarter
To prepare for the day when self-driving cars will travel on technology-aided roads, U.S. state transit planners aim to outfit those roadways with fiber optics,...
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Tech Trends in 2017: Energy Harvesting
Some experts see energy harvesting technology as essential to successfully realizing the Internet of Things, and research into micro-scale energy harvesting has...
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Man vs. AI Machine in Texas Hold'em Matchup
Four top professional poker players will challenge an artificial intelligence system in a 20-day Heads-Up No-Limit Texas Hold'em poker tournament billed as an "epic...
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Cyberwar For Sale
On the morning of May 18, 2014, Violeta Lagunes was perplexed by a series of strange messages that appeared in her Gmail inbox.
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Nasa Chooses Two Asteroid Missions Instead of a Venus Return
For the planetary science community, the day when NASA makes the final call on new Solar System exploration missions always feels bittersweet.
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The Biggest Digital Map of the Cosmos Ever Made
On the summit of Haleakala, a dormant volcano on the island of Maui in Hawaii, a telescope began clicking pictures of the night sky in 2010.
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Drones Inspired By Insects Could Keep Flying Even When Damaged
Researchers at Wageningen University in the Netherlands programmed a robotic fly to mimic insects with different levels of wing damage, enabling them to examine...
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Nanowire 'inks' Enable Paper-Based Printable Electronics
Electrons zip through films made of silver nanowires much easier than films made from other shapes, such as nanospheres or microflakes, according to Duke University...
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Supercomputing Subatomic Particle Research on Titan
Joint research by the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility and NVIDIA is aimed at developing improved quantum chromodynamics codes for graphics-processing...
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Google Reveals Secret Test of AI Bot to Beat Top Go Players
A mystery player causing a stir in the world of the complex strategy game Go has been revealed as an updated version of AlphaGo, the artificial-intelligence program...
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In the Twinkling of an Eye
The process of automatically tracking the direction of a person's gaze is making significant progress.
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5 Big Predictions For Artificial Intelligence in 2017
Among the expected advancements in artificial intelligence for 2017 is progress in applying deep reinforcement learning to real-world challenges such as automated...
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Streamlining the Internet of Things and Other Cyber-Physical Systems
Researchers at Michigan Technological University (Michigan Tech) and other institutions have developed a framework to enhance research on cyber-physical systems...
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Can Paint Strokes Help Identify Alzheimer's?
Researchers at Maynooth University in Ireland and the University of Liverpool in the U.K. found it may be possible to use fractal analysis to detect neurodegenerative...
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