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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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Helmet Camera Technology Enables Live Front-Line Video
Helmet-mounted cameras mean live video can be sent direct from the front line back to headquarters. This technology enabled military and intelligence chiefs to...
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Failure Cascading Through the Cloud
Two major cloud computing services, Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud and Sony's PlayStation Network, recently suffered extended outages. Though the circumstances...
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Information Sharing at the Quantum Limit
Led by Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics director Gerhard Rempe, researchers have successfully transferred quantum information encoded in a single photon onto...
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Voyager Set to Enter Interstellar Space
More than 30 years after they left Earth, NASA's twin Voyager probes are now at the edge of the solar system.
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Researchers Create Functioning Synapse sing Carbon Nanotubes
Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines circuit design with nanotechnology, University of Southern California researchers have built a circuit that acts...
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Quantum Computer Scientist's Aim
University of Arkansas physicist Jak Chakhalian is seeking a new miniature building block for quantum computers, using a new class of nanomaterials known as topological...
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Chemical Computers Solve Shapely Puzzles
Chemical computers can solve certain problems in computational geometry, according to University of West England professor Andrew Adamatzky and colleagues.
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Cybersecurity System Mimics Human Immune Response
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Bruce McConnell recently released a white paper about a healthy ecosystem of computers that can automatically recognize...
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Web Science Meets Network Science
A pair of divergent scientific communities discusses their similarities and differences, and search for common ground.
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I, Domestic Robot
With recent advances in laser rangefinders, faster algorithms, and open source robotic operating systems, researchers are increasing domestic robots' semantic and...
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European E-Science Group Extends Cloud Focus
The e-Infrastructure Reflection Group (e-IRG), which consists of more than 100 members from European institutions, has issued a draft report illustrating how cloud...
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Remembering Jean Bartik
Jean Bartik, notable to computer historians as one of the original six programmers on the ENIAC project, died on March 23, 2011.
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New Global Portal For Cyber-Physical Systems Research Launched
Vanderbilt University's Institute for Software Integrated Systems recently launched the Cyber-Physical Systems Virtual Organization, a U.S. National Science Foundation...
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New Kde Project Aims at Tablets, Mixed is
KDE is developing two open source projects designed to provide a consistent user interface across a variety of touchscreen interfaces and to advance data integration...
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Facebook Opens Up Its Hardware Secrets
Facebook plans to open the designs and specifications of its new super-efficient data center. The company wants to encourage software-style openness for hardware...
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High-Performance Computing Cluster Will Aid Research
Temple University has a new high-performance computer cluster comprised of more than 100 nodes that will significantly enhance the high-speed computing capabilities...
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Supercomputers Let p on Speed
Smarter rather than faster design appears to be coming into vogue as a gauge of a supercomputer's success. A federal report urges a more balanced portfolio of...
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A Glimpse of the Archives of the Future
The National Archives and Records Administration enlisted the Texas Advanced Computing Center to find innovative and scalable solutions to large-scale electronic...
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Ut Debuts Its Newest Supercomputer
The University of Texas at Austin, along with the Texas A&M University, Texas Tech, the University of Texas System, and others, has built the Lonestar 4 supercomputer...
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