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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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Future Scenarios Show How Easily Ebola Could Explode
Just how bad will the Ebola outbreak in West Africa get?
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Data Mining Reveals How News Coverage Varies Around the World
Researchers have analyzed news agendas in different parts of the world to see how the coverage reflects actual international events.
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sing Cash and Pressure, China Builds Its Chip Industry
China wants to transform its chip industry into a world leader by 2030 and become less reliant on foreign-sourced technology.
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Google Teams p With Oxford Academics to Bring Human-Like Robots Closer to Reality
Google is collaborating with Oxford University researchers to help machines better understand users, and to improve visual-recognition systems using deep learning...
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Is the City of the Future Finally Here?
A presentation during the Argonne OutLoud series considered how computer technologies can help mitigate challenges associated with increased urbanization.
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Ghosts in the Machine Language
Four of this year's most dangerous software exploits were examples of vulnerabilities that lay undiscovered in widely utilized code for years.
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Keeping Online Reviews Honest
As online reviews become increasingly important to e-commerce and social media sites, computer scientists work on ways to ensure their authenticity.
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sing Drones to Make Peace, Not War
Amin Rigi says drones should be used to save lives, not spy or kill.
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Scientists Consider Repurposing Robots For Ebola
Robotics scientists nationwide are pondering an intriguing possibility: Might robotic technologies deployed in rescue and disaster situations be quickly repurposed...
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Researchers Take Big-Data Approach to Estimate Range of Electric Vehicles
North Carolina State University researchers say they have developed a more accurate way to determine how far electric vehicles can go before needing a recharge. ...
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Irish Researchers Develop New Tool to Protect Earth From Space Debris
In collaboration with the European Space Agency, researchers at Trinity College in Dublin have designed a risk assessment tool for the re-entry of spacecraft debris...
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Painting By the Numbers: Data Visualization
There is rising interest in digital visualization, which serves as a communication tool in areas ranging from hip hop to scientific collaboration.
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How Technology Is Helping Fight Ebola
A wide variety of technologies, from apps and software to big data and robots, are being employed to help fight the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
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Electronics in the Operating Room
Electronic devices increasingly are being incorporated into surgical procedures on a functional level.
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How Movie-Makers Read Your Mind
Why is there such interest in finding new ways to gauge audience reactions?
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Phone Hackers Dial and Redial to Steal Billions
Bob Foreman's architecture firm ran up a $166,000 phone bill in a single weekend last March.
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Agencies Bring Energy Modeling Out of the Lab
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology has developed a database and software to help building professionals manage energy upgrades.
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Open Surveillance
A new encrypted search system could enable law enforcement officials to collect data more openly without compromising investigations.
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What Happened to All the Women in Computer Science?
Ada Lovelace is recognized as the first computer programmer, but today computer science is overwhelmingly a male domain.
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