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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Mars Panorama: Next Best Thing to Being There
From fresh rover tracks to an impact crater blasted billions of years ago, a newly completed view from the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA's Mars Exploration...
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Computing Grid Built For Physics Benefits a Wide Range of Science
The University of California, San Diego houses the Open Science Grid, a network that connects processors and data storage owned by an alliance of universities and...
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Minitel: The Rise and Fall of the France-Wide Web
Many years ago, long before the birth of the Web, there was a time when France was the happening-est place in the digital universe.
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Graph500 Adds New Measurement of Supercomputing Performance
The Graph500 executive committee recently announced new specifications for a more representative way to rate large-scale data analytics in high-performance computing...
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Bot With Boyish Personality Wins Biggest Turing Test
The chatbot Eugene Goostman fooled Turing test judges 29 percent of the time into thinking it was human to take first place in the recent contest in the United...
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You Will Want Google Goggles
At first glance, Thad Starner does not look out of place at Google. A pioneering researcher in the field of wearable computing, Starner is a big, charming man with...
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What Nasa's Next Mars Rover Will Discover
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory is on its way. In a little more than a month, the 1-ton rover, whichlaunched in November, will descend to the Martian surface.
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Exascale Computing: The View From Argonne
In an interview, U.S. Argonne National Laboratory directors Rick Stevens, Michael Papka, and Marc Snir contextualize the challenges and advantages of developing...
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Intel Reveals Neuromorphic Chip Design
The brain is the most extraordinary of computing machines. It carries out tasks as a matter of routine that would fry the circuits of the most powerful supercomputers...
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P2p Comes to the Rescue of Internet Video
VTT Technical Research Center of Finland researchers, working with a consortium of 20 industrial partners on the P2P-Next project, have developed NextShare, an...
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Degrees of Separation
Researchers now have the capability to look at the small-world problem from both the traditional algorithmic approach and the new topological approach.
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Lost and Found
Researchers discover computer pioneer Konrad Zuse's long-forgotten Z9, the world's first program-controlled binary relay calculator using floating-point arithmetic...
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Quantum Computers Could Help Search Engines Keep Up With Internet
University of Southern California researchers have demonstrated the feasibility of using quantum computers to accelerate the process of executing a search engine's...
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Honeynet Project Tackles Usb-Carried Malware Like Flame
The Honeynet Project has launched an initiative to build technology that traps malware spread from PC to PC via USB storage.
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.s. Needs Another 600 Humans to Fly Its Robot Planes
The Pentagon doesn't have nearly enough people to operate its growing fleet of flying robots. Right now, the U.S. Air Force is short nearly 600 drone pilots and...
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Touch and Go: Fondling the Digital World
A new generation of touchscreens on the brink of commercialization use tactile illusions to trick the brain into feeling texture, and could transform how users...
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Robotic Assistants May Adapt to Humans in the Factory
MIT researchers have developed an algorithm that enables a robot to quickly learn an individual's preference for a certain task and adapt accordingly to help complete...
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Pandemic Preparedness
University of Texas at Austin researcher Lauren Ancel Meyers is working with the Texas Advanced Computing Center to enhance data-driven science.
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Researchers Predict Advent of 'resource-as-a-Service' Clouds
The cloud model of rented virtualized servers and storage on demand could be sold in a much more efficient and granular manner, with specific resources rented for...
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