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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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Weaving the Web
Sir Tim Berners-Lee created a paradigm shift that changed the world with his invention of the World Wide Web, Hypertext Transport Protocol, and Hypertext Markup...
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Potential and Peril
The outlook for artificial intelligence-based autonomous weapons.
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Optimization Search Finds a Heart of Glass
Analog computing could provide greater efficiency, improved digital algorithms.
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Curiosity May Be Vital For Truly Smart AI
A computer algorithm equipped with a form of artificial curiosity can learn to solve tricky problems even when it isn't immediately clear what actions might help...
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Earth-Observing Companies Push For More-Advanced Science Satellites
Never have so many private eyes looked down at Earth.
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Smart Machines Pick p the Pace
Massachusetts Institute of Technology principal research scientist Andrew McAfee says the pace of machine-learning advancement is often underestimated.
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Google Researchers Are Teaching Their AI to Build Its Own, More Powerful AI
Google has unveiled a new approach to machine learning in which neural networks are used to build better neural networks.
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Making Machines Make Sense
Researchers are working to imbue computing devices with sophisticated object recognition and tactile capabilities that could take computer sensing to an entirely...
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A Brief History of Seti@home
The year was 1999, and the people were going online. AOL, Compuserve, mp3.com, and AltaVista loaded bit by bit after dial-up chirps, on screens across the world...
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New Computation Tools Enable Much Faster and Cheaper Product Development
Researchers at the VTT Technical Research Center of Finland have developed faster, more accurate, and agile computation tools and methods.
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Deep Learning Algorithm Rewrites Traditional Recipes For New Regions, Ingredients
A team of researchers says a new machine-learning algorithm can take a recipe and transform it into an alternative dietary style.
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Researchers Look to Add Statistical Safeguards to Data Analysis and Visualization Software
New software is designed to eliminate multiple hypothesis testing errors in interactive data exploration and visualization systems using real-time statistical safeguards...
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Microsoft Has a Plan to Add Dna Data to its Cloud
Microsoft Research plans to have a DNA-based data storage system functioning within a data center by 2020.
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FCC Votes to Start Rolling Back Landmark Net Neutrality Rules
The Republican-led Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday to begin undoing a key decision from the Obama era that could relax regulations on Internet...
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Imec Demonstrates Self-Learning Neuromorphic Chip That Composes Music
Researchers say they have created the world's first self-learning neuromorphic chip, based on OxRAM technology, that demonstrates the ability to compose music. ...
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Microrobots Inspired By Nature
Researchers have developed microrobots that mimic the rowing action of the cilia present in the single-celled paramecium.
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What This Apple-Picking Robot Means For the Future of Farm Workers
Robots are replacing human workers at a faster pace than any other point in history. Most of these robots are in factories, but a new kind of mechanized worker...
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A Chinese Genome Giant Sets Its Sights on the itimate Sequencer
The world's largest genetics research center isn't at Harvard or Stanford or even the NIH. It's a 20-mile drive from Hong Kong International Airport, in the bustling...
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Patching the Electric Grid
Electric grids worldwide are increasingly vulnerable to attack as new technologies like smart meters and analytical software are added to them, with mature systems...
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