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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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How to Teach Self-Driving Cars Ethics of the Road
A large truck speeding in the opposite direction suddenly veers into your lane.
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Researchers Announce Advance in Image-Recognition Software
Two groups of scientists, working independently, have created artificial intelligence software capable of recognizing and describing the content of photographs...
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Stanford Cyber Initiative Will Tackle Internet Technology Concerns From Many Angles
The Stanford Cyber Initiative is a program applying broad Stanford University expertise to cybersecurity, cyberspace, and networked information.
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Silicon Valley Turns Prisoners Into Programmers at San Quentin
A San Francisco-based programming boot camp has launched a program in which inmates at San Quentin State Prison will learn the basics of computer coding.
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Hour of Code to Feature 'frozen' Characters
Educational nonprofit Code.org is collaborating with Disney to open its week-long "Hour of Code" event during Computer Science Education Week Dec. 8-14.
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Nasa Issues 'remastered' View of Jupiter's Moon Europa
Scientists have produced a new version of what is perhaps NASA's best view of Jupiter's ice-covered moon, Europa.
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Researchers Advance 'quantum Teleportation'
The world at the quantum level, at the scale of particles too small for the eye to see, is very strange.
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Sculptor Offers Another Clue in 24-Year-Old Mystery at C.i.a.
The artist who created the enigmatic Kryptos, a puzzle-in-a-sculpture that has driven code breakers to distraction since it was installed 24 years ago in a courtyard...
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Mathematical Time Law Governs Crowd Flow
Walking in crowds means predicting the future.
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Faculty Research Reveals Software Improving in Ability to Analyze, Score Writing
Software for evaluating human writing is improving and expanding in use.
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Evolution Software Looks Beyond the Branches
PhyloNet is an open source Java-based program that accounts for both the horizontal and vertical inheritance of genetic material among genomes.
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Software to Automatically Outline Bones in X-Rays
Researchers at the University of Manchester are developing software that can automatically pick out the shapes of bones in X-rays.
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Supercomputational Thinking at Sc14
Considering how computational scientists have developed supercomputing technologies, and where it is helping take everyone else.
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Dell Research Works at Intersection of Technology, Customer Needs
The goal of Dell's research unit is to take a long-term view of trends in the industry and decide which ones to act on based on what makes sense.
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Researchers Test First 'smart Spaces' sing Light to Send Data
Dartmouth College professor Xia Zhou and colleagues are experimenting with "smart spaces" featuring ceiling-mounted light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and light sensors...
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Scientists Build a Better Eye on Our World
The University of Illinois at Chicago's Electronic Visualization Laboratory will work to develop a video camera that can capture images in 360 degrees.
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Magic Tricks Created sing Artificial Intelligence for the First Time
Artificial intelligence researchers have taught a computer to create magic tricks.
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Window Washing Skills Beyond a Robot's Reach
As a pair of window washers clung to a scaffold dangling outside the 68th floor of 1 World Trade Center on Wednesday, the captivating drama left some below wondering...
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Three Touchdowns For Rosetta's Lander
After achieving touchdown on a comet for the first time in history, scientists and engineers are busy analysing this new world and the nature of the landing.
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