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Meet the 'bots' that Edit Wikipedia
Wikipedia is written and maintained by tens of thousands of volunteers across the world. Those, in turn, are assisted by hundreds of "bots"—autonomous computer...
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Advertising Gets Personal
Online behavioral advertising and sophisticated data aggregation have changed the face of advertising and put privacy in the crosshairs.
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DARPA Shredder Challenge Solved
The eight-person winning team used original computer algorithms to narrow the search space and then relied on human observation to move the pieces into their final...
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Cosmic Simulations
With the help of supercomputers, scientists are now able to create models of large-scale astronomical events.
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Software Detects Motion That the Human Eye Can't See
MIT researchers have developed the Eulerian video magnification process, a set of software algorithms that can amplify certain aspects of a video and reveal what...
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First GraphLab Workshop on Large-scale Machine Learning
The recent First GraphLab Workshop on Large-scale Machine Learning brought together industry and academic professionals to explore the state-of-the-art on the development...
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Can Data Mining Stop the Killing?
Would Total Information Awareness have stopped James Eagan Holmes?
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Million-Year Storage Solution Is Set in Stone
Patrick Charton of the French nuclear waste management agency ANDRA presented a sapphire storage data solution at a recent forum. Information engraved on a sapphire...
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Nothing But Net? Basketball Science Has More Answers
In a multibillion-dollar sport like basketball, one might expect that trainers had figured out every nuance of aerodynamics, mechanics and all things Newtonian...
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Nsf Announces New Savi at Intersection of It, Disasters
U.S. and Japanese researchers will collaborate on developing fundamental advances in information technology to support disaster management under a new Science Across...
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College Degrees, Designed By the Numbers
Colleges are starting to tap opportunities inherent in big data, using insights mined from information about students' performance to tailor courses and degrees...
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Minister Stresses Iran's Ability to Confront All Spy Malwares
Iran's Minister of Communication and Information Technology Reza Taqipour announced that Iran has successfully confronted sophisticated spy malwares and thwarted...
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Robot Swarms Aim to Bring Buildings to Life
Meet the man who wants to create architecture that understands everything about us — down to our emotional states — and learns from its mistakes.
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In First, Software Emulates Lifespan of Entire Organism
Scientists at Stanford University and the J. Craig Venter Institute have developed the first software simulation of an entire organism, a humble single-cell bacterium...
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Coning In: New Ways to Tap Old Data Boost Hurricane Forecast Accuracy
Despite advances in weather prediction technology, meteorologists must still qualify any hurricane forecasts with a "cone of uncertainty," which depicts just how...
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Study: Wikileaked Data Can Predict Insurgent Attacks
Insurgencies are amongst the hardest conflicts to predict. Insurgents can be loosely organized, split into factions, and strike from out of nowhere. But now researchers...
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Your Laptop Can Now Analyze Big Data
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed GraphChi, a framework for running large-scale computations on one personal computer.
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Nasa's Car-Size Rover Nears Daring Landing on Mars
NASA's most advanced planetary rover is on a precise course for an early August landing beside a Martian mountain to begin two years of unprecedented scientific...
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How Google Is Becoming an Extension of Your Mind
It's time to think of Google as much more than just a search engine, and that should both excite and spook you.
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