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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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How Ray Kurzweil Will Help Google Make the ltimate AI Brain
Google has always been an artificial intelligence company, so it really shouldn't have been a surprise that Ray Kurzweil, one of the leading scientists in the field...
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In the Virtual Cockpit: What It Takes to Fly a Drone
Drone pilots escape the physical demands and dangers of a traditional cockpit. There's no g-force pinning them to their seats, no uncomfortable pressure suit to...
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Making Sense of Medical Sensors
MIT's Imaging Group is studying the use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology to identify chemical compounds.
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New Computational Model Can Predict Breast Cancer Survival
A new computational model uses the presence of attractor metagenes to predict breast cancer survival.
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Crowd Diagnosis Could Spot Rare Diseases Doctors Miss
A new Web-based tool uses crowdsourcing techniques to help solve difficult medical cases.
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Kissing Cousins? In Close-Knit Iceland, App Helps Prevent Incest
An app making the Islendingabok (Book of Icelanders) available to Android phones notifies Icelanders when people they meet are too closely related to date.
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Harvard Global Grid Computing Project Will Help Create Printable Solar Cells
Harvard University's Clean Energy Project soon will release a list of organic compounds that could be used to make inexpensive, printable photovoltaic cells.
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Software Engineer David Notkin, 1955 – 2013
David Notkin, professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle, recently passed away after a long battle with cancer.
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A Digital Eye to Watch Soccer's Trouble Spots
The organization at the heart of international soccer’s technological advancement is located in a generic two-story building just off the A4 highway here, a few...
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The Digital Public Library of America: Adding Gravitas to Your Internet Search
One year ago, a group of professors, librarians, and futurists gathered in San Francisco to discuss how they would go about building a Digital Public Library of...
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Wireless 'smart Skin' Sensors Could Provide Remote Monitoring of Infrastructure
Wireless technology under development will monitor structures for strain, stress, and early crack formation using low-cost, low-power wireless sensors.
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Tech-Savvy Public Plays Key Role in Hunt For Bombing Suspects
Since the bombs went off in Boston's Copley Square on Monday, the FBI and Boston Police Department have been enlisting the public's help with what may be the world's...
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Competition Designed to Spread Basic Technologies
The World Bank's Sanitation Hackathon is designed to identify solutions to address the discrepancy in access to technologies in developing countries.
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Virtual Traveller: Beam a Live, 3D You Into the World
A new virtual reality system combines 3D glasses and a hack of Microsoft's Kinect to enable life-sized images of people to be recreated in a virtual space.
From ACM Opinion
We Need More Cameras, and We Need Them Now
On Thursday afternoon, the FBI released photos and video of two persons of interest in the Boston Marathon bombing.
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Drone Medal Dumped; High-Tech Troops to Be Honored with Device
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has decided to scrap the controversial Distinguished Warfare Medal that was intended to honor drone pilots and other high-tech troops...
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How Wireless Carriers Are Monetizing Your Movements
Wireless operators have access to an unprecedented volume of information about users' real-world activities, but for years these massive data troves were put to...
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The Internet Archive's Trove of Historical Software Dwarfs All Others, Archivist Claims
The Internet Archive now offers the largest collection of historical software in the world, incorporating terabytes of data.
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Is High-Tech Security at Public Events Counterproductive?
Which is more intrusive: security screening and metal detectors every few blocks, or a drone flying high above it taking video of every little thing you do?
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