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Nmsu Team Wins International Competition For Software to Help Emergency Responders
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Nmsu Team Wins International Competition For Software to Help Emergency Responders

Competitors in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Icehouse Challenge were tasked with creating software for emergency responders.

In Pursuit of Planes That Think For Themselves
From ACM Opinion

In Pursuit of Planes That Think For Themselves

Just how smart can an airplane be?

How to Stay Anonymous Online
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How to Stay Anonymous Online

Anonymity networks protect people living under repressive regimes from surveillance of their Internet use. But the recent discovery of vulnerabilities in the most...

How Artificial Intelligence Could Help Warn ­S of Another Dallas
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How Artificial Intelligence Could Help Warn ­S of Another Dallas

As the country reels from the spasm of gun violence that killed two black men and five police officers this week, a prominent digital vigilante is using an online...

Artificial Intelligence Is Setting ­p the Internet For a Huge Clash With Europe
From ACM News

Artificial Intelligence Is Setting ­p the Internet For a Huge Clash With Europe

Neural networks are changing the Internet.

If a Driverless Car Goes Bad We May Never Know Why
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If a Driverless Car Goes Bad We May Never Know Why

Two recent accidents involving Tesla's Autopilot system may raise questions about how computer systems based on learning should be validated and investigated when...

Microsoft's Project Malmo Public Release Brings AI to Minecraft
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Microsoft's Project Malmo Public Release Brings AI to Minecraft

Microsoft announced the open source code underlying its Project Malmo is now publicly available, enabling artificial intelligence experimentation by Minecraft users...

Uw, Microsoft Researchers Break Record For Dna Data Storage
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Uw, Microsoft Researchers Break Record For Dna Data Storage

Researchers believe they have set a new world record for the amount of digital data successfully stored in and retrieved from DNA molecules.

Eu Researchers Saw Brexit Coming
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Eu Researchers Saw Brexit Coming

The European Union-funded SENSEI project accurately anticipated Britain's Brexit decision based on analysis of more than 6 million social media conversations.

Team Begins Powering Up Science Instruments
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Team Begins Powering Up Science Instruments

The engineers and scientists working on NASA's Juno mission have been busying themselves, getting their newly arrived Jupiter orbiter ready for operations around...

­se of Police Robot to Kill Dallas Shooting Suspect Believed to Be First in ­S History
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­se of Police Robot to Kill Dallas Shooting Suspect Believed to Be First in ­S History

For what experts are calling the first time in history, US police have used a robot in a show of lethal force.

No Need For Supercomputers
From ACM TechNews

No Need For Supercomputers

Researchers have developed a method for calculating complex quantum-mechanical equations with personal computers that is much faster than using supercomputers.

Robot Eyes and Humans Fix on Different Things to Decode a Scene
From ACM TechNews

Robot Eyes and Humans Fix on Different Things to Decode a Scene

Researchers are determining the differences between human minds and artificial intelligence-based machines by mapping human and AI visual attention.

Are Face Recognition Systems Accurate? Depends on Your Race
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Are Face Recognition Systems Accurate? Depends on Your Race

The U.S. Government Accountability Office issued a report finding the Federal Bureau of Investigation has not properly tested the accuracy of its face-matching...

Makers of Self-Driving Cars Ask What to Do With Human Nature
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Makers of Self-Driving Cars Ask What to Do With Human Nature

The push by some automakers to make fully autonomous vehicles a commercial reality is being tempered by others arguing against elimination of human driver intervention...

Mars Canyons Study Adds Clues About Possible Water
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Mars Canyons Study Adds Clues About Possible Water

Puzzles persist about possible water at seasonally dark streaks on Martian slopes, according to a new study of thousands of such features in the Red Planet's largest...

Makers of Self-Driving Cars Ask What to Do With Human Nature
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Makers of Self-Driving Cars Ask What to Do With Human Nature

Even before Tesla revealed that a fatal accident had occurred while one of its cars was in semiautonomous driving mode, a debate was well underway between researchers...

How Juno Will Peer Deep Below Jupiter's Roiling Clouds
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How Juno Will Peer Deep Below Jupiter's Roiling Clouds

When ground controllers begin powering up the Juno spacecraft's science instruments on July 6, one of their most important goals will be to get the microwave radiometer...

Control Your Smartphone with Your Eyes
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Control Your Smartphone with Your Eyes

In an effort to make eye tracking cheap, compact, and accurate enough to be included in smartphones, a group of researchers is crowdsourcing the collection of gaze...

Machine Learning Method Differentiates Between Healthy Male, Female Microbiomes
From ACM TechNews

Machine Learning Method Differentiates Between Healthy Male, Female Microbiomes

Researchers have used Topological Data Analysis as an unsupervised learning and data exploration tool to identify changes in microbial states.
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