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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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What the Digital Brains of the Future Might Be Like
It is the rare entrepreneur who hits it truly big twice. Those who do—such as Ev Williams, Ted Turner, and Elon Musk—tend to stay within the original industry that...
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Seeing Data
Computer scientists, artists, and designers discussed the emerging science of big-data visualizations during a recent symposium.
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Seeing the Human Pulse
Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have developed a new algorithm that can accurately measure the heart rates of people...
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Sizing p Big Data, Broadening Beyond the Internet
In his young career, Jeffrey Hammerbacher has been a scout on the frontiers of the data economy.
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Nvidia's Graphics Brawn Powers Supercomputing Brains
Nvidia, trying to move its graphics chips into the supercomputing market, has found a niche helping engineers build brain-like systems called neural networks.
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Where Rich People Live (AKA Maps of iPhone Use)
Our stuff often says a lot about us, whether we own a hybrid car or a station wagon, a MacBook Pro or an ancient desktop.
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Fast Fiber: Apps Coming at 70 Percent the Speed of Light
The speed of data transfer will rise dramatically as Gigabit Ethernet grows increasingly available.
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Secret to Prism Program: Even Bigger Data Seizure
In the months and early years after 9/11, FBI agents began showing up at Microsoft Corp. more frequently than before, armed with court orders demanding information...
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NASA Issues Grand Challenge, Calls for Public, Scientific Help in Tracking Threatening Asteroids
NASA announced two programs that call on organizations around the world to help spot, track, and possibly alter the direction of asteroids headed for Earth.
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A New Era For Signatures
The market for e-signature software and services is poised for dramatic growth.
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Billion-Pixel View of Mars Comes From Curiosity Rover
A billion-pixel view from the surface of Mars, from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, offers armchair explorers a way to examine one part of the Red Planet in great...
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3D Printing Powered By Thought
It's definitely not a bird. Nor is it a plane. The garish orange piece of plastic, small enough to hold in the palm of a hand, could pass for a missing limb of...
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.s. and Russia Sign Pact to Create Communication Link on Cybersecurity
The United States and Russia have agreed to use real-time communications about national security incidents to lower the risk of conflict in cyberspace.
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Nasa Announces Asteroid Grand Challenge
NASA announced Tuesday a Grand Challenge focused on finding all asteroid threats to human populations and knowing what to do about them.
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Drones in Science: Fly, and Bring Me Data
The Tempest—wingspan 3.2 metres, cruising speed 75 knots—was designed to fly into severe storms.
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The Limitations Of Crowdsourcing: On The Hunt For The Boston Bombers
Crowdsourcing demonstrated some of its limitations after the Boston Marathon bombing.
From ACM TechNews
Neuroscience to Benefit From Hybrid Supercomputer Memory
Researchers are studying how to combine different types of memory for less expensive and optimal supercomputing performance.
From ACM Careers