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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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It's Time to Start 3d Scanning the World
When Microsoft was developing its Kinect 3D sensor, a critical task was to calibrate its algorithms to rapidly and accurately recognize parts of the human body,...
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A Wireless Road Around Data Traffic Jams
The vast data centers that process information for the Facebooks and Amazons of the Web work at a brisk clip. But even so, they can't always keep up.
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Google's Data Center Engineer Shares Secrets of 'warehouse' Computing
Luiz André Barroso doesn't see Google's data centers as data centers. He sees them as computers the size of warehouses.
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New Storage Device Is Very Small, at 12 Atoms
Researchers at I.B.M. have stored and retrieved digital 1s and 0s from an array of just 12 atoms, pushing the boundaries of the magnetic storage of information...
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Should Computers Have Their Own Web Sites?
Organizations could use a new top-level domain, .data, to share data in a standard form, writes Stephen Wolfram, creator of the computational knowledge engine Wolfram...
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Galaxy Hosts 100 Billion Planets, in New Estimate
Astronomers said Wednesday that each of the 100 billion stars in the Milky Way probably has at least one companion planet, adding credence to the notion that...
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Encrypting Pictures Using Chaotic Cellular Automata
Marina Jeaneth Machicao and colleagues at the University of San Paul in Brazil are using chaos to encrypt images. Their approach generates a pseudo-random signal...
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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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Revamping Storage Performance
Great strides are being made in finding fast alternatives to the slow disks that dominate storage systems, but fast media are not nearly enough.
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Better Medicine Through Machine Learning
Computers that tease out patterns from clinical data could improve patient diagnosis and care.
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No More Access to Google's Hadoop Cloud For Researchers
Google announced it is ending its Academic Cloud Computing Initiative, a joint program with IBM and the National Science Foundation that gave researchers access...
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Amazon Builds World's Fastest Nonexistent Supercomputer
The 42nd fastest supercomputer on earth doesn’t exist.
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The Tevatron's Enduring Computing Legacy
Few laypeople think of computing innovation in connection with the Tevatron particle accelerator, which shut down earlier this year. Mention of the Tevatron inspires...
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Bouncing Data Would Speed Up Data Centers
Inside the huge data centers operated by Internet companies like Google, Amazon, and Facebook, information is processed at blistering speed, but it still has to...
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Mystery Men Forge Servers For Giants of Internet
If you drive down highway 880 from Oakland, Calif., take an exit about 30 miles south, and snake past a long line of car dealerships, you’ll find an ordinary...
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Need a New Material? New Tool Can Help
Thanks to a new online toolkit developed at MIT and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, any researcher who needs to find a material with specific properties—whether...
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Improving Security in the Cloud
Weizmann Institute and MIT researchers are moving closer to developing a method for working with data while it is still encrypted, providing an encrypted result...
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Data Mining Without Prejudice
A new technique for finding relationships between variables in large data sets makes no prior assumptions about what those relationships might be.
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Scientists Break World Record For Data-Transfer Speeds
Researchers are claiming a new world record for data transfers over long distances.
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