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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Ocean Currents Likely to Carry Oil Along Atlantic Coast
A detailed computer modeling study released today indicates that oil from the massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico might soon extend along thousands of miles of...
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sing Neural Networks to Classify Music
University of Hong Kong students trained a convolutional neural network built for image recognition to classify music.
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New Automated Tool 'debugs' Nuclear Weapon Simulations
Purdue University researchers, working with high-performance computing experts at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, have created an automated program to "debug"...
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Cellphone in New Role: Loyalty Card
Loyalty cards--those little paper cards that promise a free sandwich or coffee after 10 purchases, but instead get lost or forgotten--are going mobile.
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Found in Translation: A Global Village
European scientists have developed groundbreaking technology to enable machine translation using statistical analysis. Now linguistic diversity can be found in...
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Spinoffs Reveal Earth Benefits of Nasa Technologies
Congressional staffers in the Rayburn House Office Building on May 20 were wondering why a robot was roaming the halls. Those who followed the robot were led to...
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Mine Your Business
Researchers are developing new techniques to gauge employee productivity from information flow.
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Straightening Out Heavy Tails
A better understanding of heavy-tailed probability distributions can improve activities from Internet commerce to the design of server farms.
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The Automotive Internet, From Vision to Reality
The European Union-funded CVIS project aims to deploy an advanced communications infrastructure that can facilitate new ways to drastically upgrade the safety,...
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The Doctor Is Out, but New Patient Monitoring and Robotics Technology Is In
A new generation of medical devices using wireless communications, sophisticated software and data center-driven "cloud" computing promises to deliver health care...
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Researchers Turn to Supercomputing to Find Malaria's Soft Spot
Intellectual Ventures builds computer simulations to better understand how malaria spreads and how it responds to eradication efforts.
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Researchers Build Mathematical Models For Cancer Treatment
South Dakota State University mathematicians are helping doctors of the Mayo Clinic build mathematical models to fine-tune an innovative strategy to treat cancer...
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3-D Model of Blood Flow By Supercomputer Predicts Heart Attacks
The Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne has used the Cadmos supercomputer to develop software that can create an accurate model of an individual's cardiovascular...
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Synthetic Genome Reboots Cell
In the culmination of a project spanning 15 years, scientists at the J. Craig Venter Institute have engineered the first cell controlled by a synthetic genome.
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Hp Researchers Say Manure Could Help Power Data Centers
Hewlett-Packard researchers have proposed a biogas recovery system that converts livestock waste into methane, which can be used as fuel to generate electricity...
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Giving New Meaning to 'smart Car'
McMaster University computer and software engineers are studying how one IBM multicore processor can be used to connect a vehicle's automotive systems.
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Computers Could Make Better Drugs
Using the NSF-funded Ranger supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center, University of Texas at Austin professor Pengyu Ren is working to develop faster...
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Can Cameras and Software Replace Referees?
Tennis has adopted Hawk-Eye's line-calling technology with (mostly) open arms. Why are other sports resisting the more accurate, high-tech refs?
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Student Researchers Advance Emergency Alert Technology
A group of Northeastern University student researchers have developed a wireless wrist device that monitors a user's vital signs and may serves as an automated...
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