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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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Top Brain Scientist Is 'philosopher at Heart'
d Boyden tilts his head downward, remaining still except for his eyes, which dart back and forth between blinks for a full 10 seconds. Then, as if coming up for...
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Obama to nveil Initiative to Map the Human Brain
President Obama on Tuesday will announce a broad new research initiative, starting with $100 million in 2014, to invent and refine new technologies to understand...
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How the Science of Swarms Can Help s Fight Cancer and Predict the Future
The first thing to hit Iain Couzin when he walked into the Oxford lab where he kept his locusts was the smell, like a stale barn full of old hay.
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Shrinking Blob Speeds Traveling Salesman on His Way
Computer scientists have discovered that a virtual shrinking blob might help find a solution to the renowned traveling salesman quandary.
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Artificial Connections
Scientists at the Blue Brain Project are using supercomputers to simulate neural connections in a 3-D model of a slice of mammalian brain.
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So It Begins: DARPA Sets Out to Make Computers That Can Teach Themselves
The Pentagon's blue-sky research agency is readying a nearly four-year project to boost artificial intelligence systems by building machines that can teach themselves—while...
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Can Control Theory Make Software Better?
Researchers recently demonstrated the application of control theory principles to formal verification, in a method that could benefit approximate computation.
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Cyberwar Manual Lays Down Rules For Online Attacks
Even cyberwar has rules, and one group of experts is putting out a manual to prove it.
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'metasurfaces' to sher in New Optical Technologies
Purdue University researchers are developing optical technologies that could enable planar photonics devices and optical switches small enough to be integrated...
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Finally, A Robot Chimp that Turns Into a Tank
The harrowing Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown, the catastrophic Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the Chilean Copiapó mine collapse: extraordinarily dangerous circumstances...
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Physicists Say They Have Found a Higgs Boson
It helps solve one of the most fundamental riddles of the universe: how the Big Bang created something out of nothing 13.7 billion years ago.
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10 Extraordinary Pentagon Mind Experiments
It’s been 30 years since the first message was sent over initial nodes of the Arpanet, the Pentagon-sponsored precursor to the internet. But this month, researchers...
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Quantum Computing Moves Forward
Technologies under development aim to exploit quantum behavior for computing and other applications.
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Controversial Quantum Computer Aces Entanglement Tests
A few days ago, I held a quantum computer in my hand—or did I?
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How to Predict the Progress of Technology
Moore’s Law and Wright’s Law offer the best predictions of the pace of technological progress, researchers say.
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Disentangling Photons and Atoms to Keep Quantum Systems Clean
In quantum physics, the divisions between object and observer—the systems and environment—become blurred.
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Moore's Law Is Not Just for Computers
Predicting the future of technology often seems a fool's game.
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Connecting the (Quantum) Dots
Researchers have developed a method that better preserves qubits for use in quantum computers.
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