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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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Ibm Speeds p Data Analysis With New Algorithm
Researchers at IBM's laboratories in Zurich have developed a new algorithm that can sort, correlate, and analyze millions of random data sets in minutes.
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Professors Find Ways to Keep Heads Above 'exaflood' of Data
Researchers remain optimistic about the prospect of keeping track of the exaflood of data, from gene sequences and distant pulsar signals to YouTube videos and...
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Making Sense of Mountains of Data
"How do you take a big collection of things and make sense out of it?" asks Gary Flake, founder and director of Microsoft Live Labs, a division of the softwarePivot...
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Tracking Garbage
Researchers are focusing on the so-called "removal chain" in an attempt to save landfill space, improve recycling rates, and trim the flow of toxic materials into...
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Engineering the Web's Third Decade
As Web technologies move beyond two-way interactive capabilities to facilitate more dynamic and pervasive experiences, the Web is quickly advancing toward its third...
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CS and Biology's Growing Pains
Biologists can benefit from learning and using the tools of computer science, but several real-world obstacles remain.
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Augmented Identity
An application that lets users point a smart phone at a stranger and immediately learn about them premiered last Tuesday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona...
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Computers Turn Flat Photos Into 3-D Buildings
Rome wasn’t built in a day, but in cyberspace it might be. Computer science researchers at the University of Washington and Cornell University are deploying a...
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Is That a 'black Box' in Your Car?
Just a few miles east of Los Angeles International Airport, a Chevy Tahoe barreled its way through a residential neighborhood on a Sunday evening. The driver lost...
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For Chip Makers, the Next Battle Is in Smartphones
The going rate for a state-of-the-art chip factory is about $3 billion. The plants typically take years to build. And the microscopic size of chip circuitry requires...
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Stanford Software Is Gaining the Sophistication to Comprehend What Humans Write
Stanford University professor Chris Manning is working to enable computers to process human language well enough to use the information it conveys. Manning says...
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Truly Random Numbers
German researchers have developed a random number generator that uses a computer memory element, a flip-flop, to create an extra layer of randomness.
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sb Fingerprints Identify 'pod Slurping' Data Thieves
Intellectual property thieves who engage in so-called pod-slurping attacks leave a "USB fingerprint," according to Vasilios Katos and Theodoros Kavallaris of the...
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What tilities Have Learned From Smart-Meter Tests...
Utilities have learned a lot about how smart meters can compel consumers to save electricity. Unfortunately, too often they aren't putting the knowledge to good...
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Searching For Saddam
Traffic had slowed to a crawl in Baghdad's Azamiyah district as drivers stopped to ogle the president. It was April 2003, and Saddam Hussein cheerily greeted his...
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Swarm of Micro-Helicopters Could Create a Giant 3-D Display
Mechanical fireflies could help create a new kind of 3-D display, say researchers at MIT. Standing in for the bioluminescent beetles will be LED-fitted, remotely...
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Robot Provides 3-D Images of Dangerous Locations
Soldiers and first responders may soon have a better way to evaluate the interior of dangerous structures. Students at Missouri S&T, in a joint project with the...
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Internet Making Our Brains Different, Not Dumb
A decade from now, Google won't make us "stupid," the Internet may make us more literate in a different kind of way, and efforts to protect individual anonymity...
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Cashing in on Internet Censorship
A growing number of software companies are capitalizing on an unexpected business opportunity: Internet censorship. In countries where governments continue to...
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