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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Machines Can Learn to Respond to New Situations Like Human Beings Would
KU Leuven researchers have shown machines can learn to respond to unfamiliar objects like a human would.
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Scientists Teaching Machines to Make Clinical Trials More Successful
Researchers at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center are using machine-learning technology to find better ways to recruit patients for clinical trials.
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Claude Shannon, the Father of the Information Age, Turns 1100100
Twelve years ago, Robert McEliece, a mathematician and engineer at Caltech, won the Claude E. Shannon Award, the highest honor in the field of information theory...
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The Struggle with Image Glut
As the fruit-fly larva wriggles forwards in the video, a crackle of neural activity shoots up its half-millimetre-long body.
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Thinking Outside the Sample
Researchers have developed a framework they say could help computers learn how to process and identify images faster and more accurately.
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Inspired By Nature
University of Washington researchers are collaborating with Microsoft to encode, store, and retrieve digital text and images using DNA molecules.
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Curiosity Mars Rover Crosses Rugged Plateau
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has nearly finished crossing a stretch of the most rugged and difficult-to-navigate terrain encountered during the mission's 44 months...
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Ai, Md: How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing the Way Illness Is Diagnosed and Treated
Frost & Sullivan's Venkat Rajan observes the concept of artificial intelligence in healthcare has entered reached "early-stage commercialization, adoption, and...
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Maiden Voyage of Stanford's Humanoid Robotic Diver Recovers Treasures From King Louis Xiv's Wrecked Flagship
Stanford University researchers are calling the maiden voyage of the OceanOne humanoid diving robot a significant astonishing success.
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Asc16 Student Supercomputer Challenge Results Are In
The top prize in the Asia Supercomputer Community's 2016 Student Supercomputer Challenge went to the Huazhong University of Science and Technology team.
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Software Error Doomed Japanese Hitomi Spacecraft
Japan's flagship astronomical satellite Hitomi, which launched successfully on 17 February but tumbled out of control five weeks later, may have been doomed by...
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Nist Kicks Off Effort to Defend Encrypted Data From Quantum Computer Threat
A new report from the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology focuses on how to protect encrypted data from quantum decryption via a long-term plan. ...
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Aerial 'fire Drone' Passes Homestead Test
University of Nebraska-Lincoln researchers have designed an aerial drone to ignite prescribed fires in grasslands and forests.
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Security Breach in Israeli-Made Waze Lets Hackers Stalk sers
University of California, Santa Barbara professor Ben Zhao and colleagues have demonstrated a way to breach the popular Waze road navigation application.
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Bu Researchers Investigate World's Oldest Human Footprints With Software Designed to Decode Crime Scenes
Bournemouth University researchers have developed a software technique to uncover "lost" tracks at the world's oldest human footprint site in Laetoli, Tanzania. ...
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Digital Genies
University of California, Berkeley professor Stuart Russell emphasizes the need to ensure artificial intelligence understands fundamental human values.
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This Top Scientist Offers a Solution For the Havoc Driverless Cars May Wreck on Workers
Proponents of autonomous vehicles are in a sticky situation.
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Cassini Explores a Methane Sea on Titan
Of the hundreds of moons in our solar system, Titan is the only one with a dense atmosphere and large liquid reservoirs on its surface, making it in some ways more...
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How a Woman Trapped in Her Body 'spoke' Once Again
Around six years have now passed since Waltraut Faehnrich last opened and closed her eyes without assistance.
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