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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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Wanted: Technical Women
"Especially at a time when unemployment is high and our economy is weak, we cannot afford to lose anyone with the technical skills to create a sustainable future...
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It's a Man vs. Machine Recovery
The U.S. produces almost one-quarter more goods and services today than it did in 1999, while using almost precisely the same number of workers.
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Pentagon Fears Iran's Access to F-22 Technology Through Hijacked Spy Drone
Reports coming out from the Pentagon revealed that the United States' military experts and officials are deeply worried about Tehran's access to the RQ-170 Sentinel...
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Military Academies Look to Fill Nation's Cybersecurity Gaps
U.S. military academies have been developing potential cyberwarriors for years, but has difficulty finding them positions that use their cyberskills. Most graduates...
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Gartner Slashes 2012 Global IT Spending Forecast
Happy New Year. IT market-research outfit Gartner has some sour news to start off 2012: It has just slashed its growth forecast for global on tech spending.
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Hackers Plan Space Satellites to Combat Censorship
An organization of computer hackers is planning to launch its own communication satellites and bypass satellites controlled by governmental bodies and used to censor...
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Teachers Resist High-Tech Push in Idaho Schools
Ann Rosenbaum, a former military police officer in the Marines, does not shrink from a fight, having even survived a close encounter with a car bomb in Iraq.
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Your Connected Vehicle Is Arriving
The networking of vehicles to the Internet and each other over the next decade will spark new technological and societal trends, such as lower accident rates, reduced...
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So, What's Your Algorithm?
The beginning of a transformation in day-to-day business decisions informed by real-time analytics mined from immense databases is in store for this year, as computers...
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Japanese Govt Working on Defensive Cyberweapon
Researchers at Japan's Defense Ministry are developing a computer virus that can track, identify, and disable sources of cyberattacks. Since the launch of the...
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Explaining Why Computing Is Important
IBM fellow Grady Booch recently launched a transmedia project that he says will "teach the essential science of computing, present the stories of the people, events...
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Social Robotics: Beyond the ncanny Valley
Social roboticists are developing ways to make robots seem more human like and overcome the uncanny valley, which is the reaction humans have to robotic appearance...
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The Next Big Thing(s) in Tech
The next big advances in technology include the replacement of desktop computers with smartphones, the emergence of nanotech batteries, and the rise of augmented...
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Stuxnet Weapon Has at Least 4 Cousins: Researchers
The Stuxnet virus that damaged Iran's nuclear program was likely one of at least five cyber weapons developed on a single platform whose roots trace back to 2007...
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Rise of the Drone: From Calif. Garage to Multibillion-Dollar Defense Industry
In 1980, Abraham Karem, an engineer who had emigrated from Israel, retreated into his three-car garage in Hacienda Heights outside Los Angeles and, to the bemusement...
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Computer Cop Humble About His Success
The Saint John Police Force's computer scientist James Stewart has developed software that ranks every criminal violation based on severity, taking into account...
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Apropos Appropriation
One recent afternoon in the offices of the Midtown law firm run by David Boies and his powerful litigation partners, a large black clamshell box sat on a conference...
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Beijing Launches Its Own Gps Rival
China has begun operating a homegrown satellite navigation service that is designed to provide an alternative to the U.S. Global Positioning System and, according...
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John McCarthy, 1927 - 2011
Winner of the 1971 A.M. Turing Award, John McCarthy was a founder of artificial intelligence and inventor of the Lisp programming language.
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