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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Thomas Sterling: 'i Think We Will Never Reach Zettaflops'
As supercomputing makes its way through the petascale era, the future of the technology has never seemed so uncertain.
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Bill Would Have Businesses Foot Cost Of Cyberwar
Business executives and national security leaders are of one mind over the need to improve the security of the computers that control the U.S. power grid, the financial...
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Algorithm Weighs Up Strategies For Bridge Management
Concordia University engineers have developed an algorithm designed to help public officials decide how to manage bridges.
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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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The Man Who Started the Hacker Wars
In the summer of 2007, Apple released the iPhone, in an exclusive partnership with A.T. & T. George Hotz, a seventeen-year-old from Glen Rock, New Jersey, was a...
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How to Muddy Your Tracks on the Internet
Legal and technology researchers estimate that it would take about a month for Internet users to read the privacy policies of all the Web sites they visit in a...
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The Giants Among S
The patent world is quietly undergoing a change of seismic proportions. In a few short years, a handful of entities have amassed vast treasuries of patents on an...
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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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Struggle Continues to Plug Embedded Programming Gap
Critics say the growing embedded programming gap can be attributed to university curriculums for introductory computer science courses, which recently have focused...
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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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Look Ma No Hands, in 140 Characters or Less...
Clifford Nass, founder of Stanford University's Communications Between Humans and Interactive Media Lab, says future automobiles will boast full automation and...
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A 100-Gigbit Highway For Science
The U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) is laying the foundation for a high-speed network that can transport an increasing amount of scientific...
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Tempering the Rise of the Machines
A report written by former Tufts University president Lawrence S. Bacow and former Princeton University president William G. Bowen analyzes the state of online...
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A Stock Exchange For Your Personal Data
The creation of a marketplace for personal information would be a way for people to regain control of their data in the information age, says Hewlett-Packard Labs...
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A Ride on MIT Media Lab's Digital Bandwagon
Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab recently hosted its annual Inside Out conference where speakers from several projects discussed the future of...
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Data Engineer in Google Case Is Identified
At the center of the uproar over a Google project that scooped up personal data from potentially millions of unsuspecting people is the company software engineer...
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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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