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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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Michigan Students Develop Rfid-Enabled Blind Cane
The Smart Cane is a prototype device developed by Central Michigan University (CMU) engineering students to help visually-impaired people navigate and avoid obstacles...
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k's Centre For Cyber-Security Opens at Queen's
The Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT) recently opened at Queen's University Belfast. CSIT will create 80 new positions and serve as the United...
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State Educators Call For Technology Investment
In his first State of Education Address Thursday (Sept 24), Wisconsin State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Evers touched on budget cuts and problems...
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The Sum of Knowledge
European researchers are creating new technology that could, ultimately, make accessible the sum of humankind’s knowledge. Hundreds of organisations and millions...
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Pentagon
The creation of a cyborg insect army has just taken a step closer to reality. A research team at the University of California Berkeley recently announced thatFrontiers...
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Control of Internet Is at Issue
The U.S. Commerce Department's Joint Project Agreement (JPA) with ICANN is set to expire on Sept. 30. As that date approaches, Commerce is under increasing pressure...
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Mobile Phones Present Improved, Augmented Reality
New mobile phones could make it possible for augmented reality (AR) — real-world views overlaid with digital information — to trump virtual reality, which lacks...
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Rfid Technology May Help in Keeping Foods Safe
RFID technology has led to better safety handling of raw materials and finished products in the food industry, which is also using the technology to speed up the...
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How the Netflix Prize Was Won
The secret to the success of BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos and The Ensemble, first- and second-place winners of the Netflix Prize, was teamwork. The Netflix Prize...
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President Obama Touts Role of Basic Research in Innovation
In his recent address at Hudson Valley Community College in Troy, N.Y., U.S. President Barack Obama cited the need for the United States to strengthen its commitment...
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Controlling the Language of Security
A security policy specification that guarantees the reliability and availability of home networks has been developed by computer scientists at Kyungpook National...
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Moving Toward a New Vision of Education
Researchers from the University of Basque Country have finished a 10-year study examining the effects of information and communications technologies (ICT) in the...
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'Triple Space' Offers Web for Web Services
What the World Wide Web is to humans, the Triple Space could become for machines, say European researchers who have helped lay the foundations for this innovative...
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Shaping the Future
To create shape-shifting robotic ensembles, researchers need to teach micro-machines to work together.
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Debating Net Neutrality
Advocates seek to protect users from potential business practices, but defenders of the status quo say that concerns are overblown.
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Managing Data
Dealing with terabytes of data is not the monumental task it once was. The difficult part is presenting enormous amounts of information in ways that are most useful...
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Robots Get Smarter By Asking For Help
Willow Garage researchers are developing robots that ask human for help when they cannot recognize objects. Willow Garage computer scientist Alan Sorokin has designed...
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Netflix Awards $1 Million Prize and Starts a New Contest
Netflix, the movie rental company, has decided its million-dollar-prize competition was such a good investment that it is planning another one. The company’srecommendation...
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Project 'gaydar' Computes Orientation
Two students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) sought to determine whether online social network users were unknowingly revealing sensitive details...
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