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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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'part-Time' Scientists Aim to Develop Autonomous Rover to Compete For Lunar X Prize
Some people try to make the most of their spare time by exercising, volunteering, or simply recharging their batteries. Others like to use that time to build robots...
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Craig Venter Wants to Solve the World's Energy Crisis
There is one version of Craig Venter's life story where he would’ve been a dutiful scientist at the National Institutes of Health, a respected yet anonymous researcher...
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sing Machine Learning to Discover Ancient Middle East Settlements
An archeologist and a computer scientist have developed a new technique to analyze satellite images of wide swaths of land to discover ancient settlements in the...
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Jonathan Ive: Simplicity Isn't Simple
"Design is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing. We don't really talk about design, we talk about developing ideas...
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Telerobotics Offers Third Way For Space Exploration
Space exploration may have a new direction. In the 1960s, humans did the exploring but since the last moon landing in 1972, NASA's only explorers beyond low Earth...
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New Mathematical Framework Formalizes Oddball Programming Techniques
MIT researchers have developed a mathematical framework that enables developers to reason rigorously about sloppy computation, providing mathematical guarantees...
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An Influential Theoretician
Sanjeev Arora, winner of the 2011 ACM-Infosys Award, discusses his pivotal role in theoretical computer science.
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Game Changer
Judea Pearl's passionate advocacy of the importance of probability and causality helped revolutionize artificial intelligence.
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Welcome to the Multiverse
"What really interests me is whether God had any choice in creating the world." That's how Albert Einstein, in his characteristically poetic way, asked whether...
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Meet the Man Who Invented the Instructions For the Internet
Steve Crocker was there when the Internet was born.
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New Research Could Mean Faster Computers and Better Smart Phones
University of Gothenburg researchers have found that graphene and carbon nanotubes could help reduce the size and power consumption of electronic circuits.
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Intel Futurist on Why We Should Not Fear the Future
Much of Intel's success as a microprocessor manufacturer over the past four decades has come from the company's ability to understand and anticipate the future...
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Daniela Rus's Robotic Sand
History holds lessons, even for those designing futuristic robots.
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Picking the Brains of Strangers Improves Efforts to Make Sense of Online Information
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft Research recently presented their findings on distributed sensemaking at CHI 2012.
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Researchers Demonstrate New Way to Control Nonvolatile Magnetic Memory Devices
The spin Hall effect is useful for memory applications because it can switch magnetic poles back and forth, according to researchers at Cornell University.
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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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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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Graphene-Based Terahertz Devices: The Wave of the Future
University of Notre Dame researchers have been able to manipulate terahertz (THz) electromagnetic waves using atomically thin graphene layers, which they say sets...
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A Brief History of Warnings About the Demise of Moore's Law
Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku rekindled a perennial discussion last week by saying Moore's Law, the pacesetter of technological advancement over the last half...
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