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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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.K. Researchers Tap Semantic Web for Business Intelligence Innovation
SAP is leading a European research project that will combine semantic technologies with business intelligence in a system to help business users make better sense...
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Researchers Work to Protect, Restore Vulnerable Networks
The University of Arizona is collaborating with researchers at Columbia University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on a project which is developing...
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China's Secure Communications Quantum Leap
A team of 15 Chinese researchers in May published a research paper announcing a successful demonstration of "quantum teleportation" over 16 kilometers of free...
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ACM China Nearing Launch
ACM's expansion into China will support local professionals and increase Chinese involvement in ACM's international activities.
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Degrees, Distance, and Dollars
The Internet is making higher education accessible to a whole new class of students—but not necessarily at a lower cost.
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Cycling Through Data
Sensor-equipped bicycles are providing valuable data to cyclists, city planners, and computer scientists.
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Brains and Bytes
Computational neuroscientists are learning that the brain is like a computer, except when it isn't.
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alr Model to Help Organize, Keep Private 'vast Ocean' of Social Network Data
Researchers from the College of Engineering and Information Technology at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock have developed a new model to manage the "vast...
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Alien Hunters 'should Look For Artificial Intelligence'
A senior astronomer has said that the hunt for alien life should take into account alien "sentient machines."
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Location-Based Applications Driving Innovation in Wireless Communications Industry
Fifty experts recently attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute's second International Workshop on Opportunistic Radio Frequency Localization for Next Generation...
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The Future of the Web Is a Matter of Semantics
Researchers at Athens Information Technology and the National Technical University of Athens say there are three main issues to overcome before the semantic Web...
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Cool! Researchers Find Way to se Hvac Ducts For Wireless Monitoring Technology
North Carolina State University researchers have developed a system based on RFID tags that uses a building's heating, ventilating, and air conditioning ducts for...
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How Wikileaks Keeps Its Funding Secret
The controversial website WikiLeaks, which argues the cause of openness in leaking classified or confidential documents, has set up an elaborate global financial...
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Virtual Router Smashes Speed Records
Software-driven networking will enable new Internet protocols.
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Scientists Hack Into Cars' Computers
It sounds like a Hollywood movie: cybercriminals in a van use a laptop to hack wirelessly into the computer-controlled systems of the car on the road ahead. In...
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Tech Industry Holds Closed Door Talks on Open Internet
The Information Technology Industry Council, representing leading technology industry firms, recently held a closed-door meeting to discuss the future of the open...
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Web Could Be Stylized By New W3c Font Platform
The World Wide Web Consortium's Web Fonts Working Group has launched version 1.0 of the Web Open File Format (WOFF), compression technology that will provide a...
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.s. Takes Aim at China Cyber Threat
The U.S. for the first time is publicly warning about the Chinese military's use of civilian computer experts in clandestine cyber attacks aimed at American companies...
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Dual-Core Smartphones on the Horizon
Smartphones with dual-core Arm processors could add faster processing, video capabilities.
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