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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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Meet the Incredible Woman Who Massively Improved the Internet
Princeton University professor Jennifer Rexford recently was awarded the Athena Lecturer award by ACM's Council on Women in Computing.
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DARPA Is Looking For the Perfect Encryption App, and It's Willing to Pay
The Pentagon's blue-sky research program is looking for someone to create the ultimate hacker-proof messaging app.
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Can Technology Help Teach Literacy in Poor Communities?
Three studies have found tablet use effective in improving performance on standardized tests of reading preparedness by children in economically disadvantaged countries...
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Researchers Explain How Stereotypes Keep Girls Out of Computer Science Classes
Educators need to start earlier and set a strong foundation to resolve the gender gap in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields.
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Brain Cartography: Modern-Day Explorers Are Mapping the Wiring of the Human Mind
The brain can be both best friend and worst enemy.
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Silicon Photonics: Ready to Go the Distance?
Processes for making CMOS chips are adapted for optical components.
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Coding as Sport
Programming competitions help identify and reward those who excel in coding.
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For Michigan Professor, Computer Science Is Much More Than a Job
University of Michigan researchers have developed Sirius, an open platform for intelligent assistants such as Siri, Cortana, and Google Now.
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Regenstrief, Iu Study Finds Machine Learning as Good as Humans' in Cancer Surveillance
Researchers say algorithms and open source machine-learning tools are as effective as human reviewers in detecting cancer cases using data from free-text pathology...
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This Battery-Free Computer Sucks Power Out of Thin Air
The new Wireless Identification and Sensing Platform is a combination sensor and computing chip that can operate without a battery or a wired power source.
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On This Waterfront, Robot Longshoremen Are the New Contenders
On one end of a dock at America's busiest port, tractor-trailers haul containers through dense, stop-and-go traffic. Sometimes they collide.
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Long After His Accident, Sam Schmidt Takes the Wheel Again Thanks to Project Sam
In the late 90s, Sam Schmidt had a promising career as an IndyCar driver, finishing fifth in the championship in 1999 after taking his first win in Las Vegas.
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Atomic Memory Could Store S Library of Congress in a Dust Speck
It's a memory so small you'll forget where you left it. A new data storage system uses single atoms as computer bits, and could hold the contents of the US Library...
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sing Data to Explore Poetic Sound
Michigan State University researcher Sean Pue is studying the role of sound in modern South Asian poetry.
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Ready, Set, Think! Mind-Controlled Drones Race to the Future
The University of Florida last week hosted what it called the world's first drone race involving brain-computer interfaces.
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A New Number Format For Computers Could Nuke Approximation Errors For Good
Computers have a persistent problem representing fractional numerical values, but high-performance computing scientist John Gustafson has proposed a solution.
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Computers That Crush Humans at Games Might Have Met Their Match: 'starcraft'
The next frontier for game-playing artificial intelligence could be the popular real-time strategy game "StarCraft."
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Computers That Crush Humans at Games Might Have Met Their Match: 'starcraft'
Humanity has fallen to artificial intelligence in checkers, chess, and, last month, Go, the complex ancient Chinese board game.
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New Maps Make Aftershocks Look Scarier Than the Main Quake
Aftershocks continue shaking the cities of Kumamoto, Japan and Muisne, Ecuador, almost a week after earthquakes rocked the two cities, frightening residents still...
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