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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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Photo Project Aims to Preserve Time in 3D
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology researchers have developed a method to preserve the world's treasures in three-dimensional life-like models using...
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India's Elephantine Effort
An ambitious biometric ID project in the world's second most populous nation aims to relieve poverty, but faces many hurdles.
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The Touchy Subject of Haptics
After more than 20 years of research and development, are haptic interfaces finally getting ready to enter the computing mainstream?
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Virtual Spheres Speed Up Skimming Through Mobile Video
With more than 35 hours of video uploaded to YouTube each minute, finding the right video without downloading it first is difficult. And video searching on mobile...
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Word-Wide Web Launches
New Google database puts centuries of cultural trends in reach of linguists.
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Computer Spin Memory: Physicists Read Data Stored in Atomic Nuclei
University of Utah physicists stored data for 112 seconds in the "spins" of atomic nuclei. Their work is a step toward using spin memory for faster conventional...
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UCLA Receives $5.5m For Work on High-Speed, High-Capacity Memory
UCLA researchers recently received a $5.5 million U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency grant to continue developing technology that could lead to low-power...
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How Rare Is that Fingerprint? Computational Forensics Provides the First Clues
University at Buffalo researchers have developed a method to computationally determine how rare a particular fingerprint is and how likely it is to belong to a...
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Panel Set to Study Safety of Electronic Patient Data
Almost two years ago, President Obama pledged $19 billion in stimulus incentives to help convert the nation’s doctors and hospitals to using a paperless system...
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Privacy Project ses Cryptography to Reduce Shared Info
An electronic wallet that encrypts the owner's personal information is being developed by IBM researchers. The device will only allow the sharing of information...
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Task Force Praises Bowles-Simpson Report's Commitment to Research and Education
The Task Force on American Innovation commends the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform for recommending that the United States make predictable...
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New Application Allows Scientists Easy Access to Government Data
Computer scientists within the Tetherless World Research Constellation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed an application that provides scientists...
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Tiny Laser Light Show Illuminates Quantum Computing
With similarities to the light-show projectors used at planetariums, a new laser-beam steering system that aims and focuses bursts of light onto single atoms for...
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Math Puzzles
I met a man with seven wives. ...” You may know this singsong quiz, But what you might not know is this: That it began with ancient Egypt’s Early math-filled manuscripts...
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A European Network of Excellence for Large-Scale Data Management Over the Internet Is Launched
The Universidad Politecnica de Madrid is participating in PlanetData, a European project to help researchers publish their data in a more serviceable form on a...
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Parc Readies Printed Electronics For Market
Early 2011 will see printed memory devices in toys and printed sensors in packages used to ship drugs.
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Spaf on Security Education in 2011
Purdue University professor Eugene Spafford says that both industry and government are focusing more on the need for students to receive training in information...
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A Brain Boost For Information Overload
Columbia University professors Paul Sajda and Shih-Fu Chang have developed a computer vision system that they say could revolutionize how huge amounts of visual...
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Assange on Secrecy, China, and Wikileaks' Growth
"Secrecy is important for many things," said WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in an interview with Time over Skype on Monday. Managing editor Richard Stengel...
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