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DARPA Wants Gamers to Design Medical Training Software
DARPA is seeking proposals for a game-based interactive system to train medical first responders.
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10 Years of Aqua Satellite's Incredible Images of Earth From Space
The view of Earth from space has transformed our understanding of, as well as our admiration for, the planet.
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Turning Big Ideas Into Solutions
Student teams' development of innovative tools has earned them awards in the University of California Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest...
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London to Test 'smart City' Operating System
London is preparing to test an operating system designed to power the smart cities of the future.
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Carnegie Mellon Researchers Create Dynamic View of City Based on Foursquare Check-in Data
A dynamic view of a city's activities and character that reflects the ever-fluctuating patterns of city life can be generated by the millions of check-ins produced...
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What Makes Heroic Strife
For the past decade or so, generals commanding the world's most advanced armies have been able to rely on accurate forecasts of the outcomes of conventional battles...
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Americans
It is taking Americans a bit longer than the rest of the world to catch on to the idea of “mobile wallets.”
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CLA Researchers Combat Global Disease With a Cell Phone, Google Maps and a Lot of Ingenuity
UCLA researchers say they have developed a compact and cost-effective rapid diagnostic test-reading device that works with standard cell phones.
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Scanning the Brain For Impending Error
University of Arizona researchers are using new technology to predict in advance when people will make a mistake on the standard math section of the College Board's...
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Nasa's Space Apps Competition Takes on Big Ideas
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration recently held its first International Space Apps Challenge, attracting participants from 24 countries for...
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An Algorithm For Preserving Art
Technology ReviewThe Metropolitan Museum of Art's Paolo Dionisi and IBM researchers have deployed 120 low-power temperature and humidity sensors in an attempt to...
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Automating Scientific Discovery
Computer scientists are teaching machines to run experiments, make inferences from the data, and use the results to conduct new experiments.
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Robots Like Us
Thanks to new research initiatives, autonomous humanoid robots are inching closer to reality.
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Digitally Possessed
Virtual possessions play an increasingly important role in our daily lives. How we think about them and deal with them is changing the way we think and interact...
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Network Science Reveals the Cities That Lead the World's Music Listening Habits
Clique Research Cluster scientists recently analyzed data from Last.fm, a social Web site for music, to determine which cities set the world's listening trends.
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Programming Project Comes to Primary Schools
A volunteer project in the United Kingdom is writing session plans for teaching the basics of computer programming to children between the ages of 10 and 11.
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Nancy Lynch Named 2012 Athena Lecturer
MIT's Nancy Lynch was named the 2012 Athena Lecturer for her advances in distributed systems that enable dependable Internet and wireless network applications.
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Mu Researchers Find Identical Dna Codes in Plant Species Providing Insights Into Plant and Animal Evolution
University of Missouri researchers recently solved a biological mystery by using a computer algorithm to find identical DNA sequences in different plant and animal...
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From Beaker to Bits: Unique Collaboration Between Biologists and Computer Scientists Creates Computational Model of Human Tissue
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute researchers have developed a computational model called cell graphs that links the structure of human tissue to its corresponding...
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