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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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First Robotics Competitions Attract Students to STEM Education
An international youth organization challenges and encourages students to stick with science, technology, engineering, and math.
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Preventing Software From Causing Injury
The Self-Report Ergonomic Assessment Tool is being designed to help develop safer software by ascertaining how much stress computer programs put on users.
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Can We Quantify Machine Consciousness?
The argument that consciousness is computable--and instillable within machines--cannot be verified or refuted until a measurable theory of consciousness becomes...
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The Soft Side of Quantum Computing
Future quantum computers will need software tailored to their specific ways of operating.
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How a Supreme Court Ruling on Printer Cartridges Changes What It Means to Buy Almost Anything
Last week, the Supreme Court dealt a major blow to corporations that try to use patent law as a weapon against other firms, saying that companies can only be sued...
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When Hatred Goes Viral: Inside Social Media's Efforts to Combat Terrorism
On New Year's Eve in 2015 local and federal agents arrested a 26-year-old man in Rochester, N.Y., for planning to attack people at random later that night using...
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Silicon Valley's Big Three vs. Detroit's Golden-Age Big Three
Over the last 20 years, the technology industry has become the most powerful industry in the world, boasting seven of the 20 most profitable companies.
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Parasitic Robot System For Turtle's Waypoint Navigation
Researchers have developed a parasitic robot system, a hybrid animal-robot interaction that mimics the natural relationship between parasites and hosts.
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Weaving the Web
Sir Tim Berners-Lee created a paradigm shift that changed the world with his invention of the World Wide Web, Hypertext Transport Protocol, and Hypertext Markup...
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In Memoriam: Jean E. Sammet 1928-2017
Sammet was the first female president of ACM, and a pioneer in programming languages.
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Earth-Observing Companies Push For More-Advanced Science Satellites
Never have so many private eyes looked down at Earth.
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Google Researchers Are Teaching Their AI to Build Its Own, More Powerful AI
Google has unveiled a new approach to machine learning in which neural networks are used to build better neural networks.
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New Computation Tools Enable Much Faster and Cheaper Product Development
Researchers at the VTT Technical Research Center of Finland have developed faster, more accurate, and agile computation tools and methods.
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Microsoft Has a Plan to Add Dna Data to its Cloud
Microsoft Research plans to have a DNA-based data storage system functioning within a data center by 2020.
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Google Program Inspires Kids to Learn Coding
Google's Code in the Community Program aims to help 3,000 underprivileged children develop computational skills for possible technology careers.
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Internet of Things Made Simple: One Sensor Package Does Work of Many
Researchers have developed a plug-in sensor package that tracks multiple phenomena in a room.
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A Robot Revolution, This Time in China
Even a decade ago, car manufacturing in China was still a fairly low-tech, labor-intensive endeavor.
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Father of the Internet: 'ai Stands For Artificial Idiot'
Google chief Internet evangelist Vint Cerf said modern artificial intelligence systems are only as smart as the people who interact with them.
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Teaching Robots to Teach Other Robots
C-LEARN is a system designed to let users teach robots skills that they can pass along to other robots.
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