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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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Network Analysis Reveals True Connections
Northwestern University researchers have developed a universal method that can correctly analyze a variety of complex networks. The researchers tested their method...
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Scientists, IT Community Await Exascale Computers
The information technology (IT) industry discussed the challenges it faces in developing exascale systems, a new generation of supercomputers that promise to be...
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Bristol Postdoc Shares in High-Performance Computing Prize
University of Bristol postdoctoral researcher Rio Yokota was a member of the team that won the first Gordon Bell prize in the price per performance category of...
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22 Stories nderground: Iron Mountain's Experimental Room 48
Down a road that winds through the rolling hills of western Pennsylvania, just across from a cow pasture, the bucolic scenery of Butler County is interrupted by...
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Gallium Nitride Transistor Could One Day Power Laptops, Cars
A Cornell researcher has created an extremely efficient transistor made from a material that may soon replace silicon as king of semiconductors for power applications...
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Californians and Cell Phones to Help Computer Scientists Track Air Pollution
Computer scientists at University of California, San Diego are creating a network of environmental sensors that will help identify air pollution hot spots. The...
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Reconfigurable Computing Research Pushes Forward
Alan George, director of the U.S. National Science Foundation's Center for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing (CHREC), says that challenges and objectives...
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Squeezing Web Sites Onto Cellphones
When a group of engineers at National Instruments Corp. modified a 1988 Oldsmobile so it could be controlled by an iPhone, the company was quick to share the project...
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NIST Develops Experimental Validation Tool for Cell Phone Forensics
Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new technique aimed at improving the validation of a crime lab's cell phone...
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Medibots: The World's Smallest Surgeons
A man lies comatose on an operating table. The enormous spider that hangs above him has plunged four appendages into his belly. The spider, made of white steel,...
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Problem Solvers
This year's Grace Hopper Celebration focused on using technology for social good.
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Making Automation Work
Today's automated systems provide enormous safety and convenience. However, when glitches, problems, or breakdowns occur, the results can be catastrophic.
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Ready For a Web OS?
The hegemony of the traditional desktop operating system is starting to fracture with the emergence of a new generation of Web browsers that may finally herald...
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Blueprints For Self-Assembly
Researchers are using tools from information theory and computer science to facilitate the automatic creation of nanoscale structures.
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Prace Is Ready For Implementation: Applications Ported
The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) has been researching promising petascaling techniques, as well as related work on optimization techniques...
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Tech Innovation Program Seeks Comments on Potential Future Funding Areas
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is asking for public comment on four white papers that outline potential areas for research funding grants...
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Trust Linux!
A team of researchers has implemented support for 'trusted computing' in a commercially available version of the open source operating system Linux, breaking new...
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Supercomputers With 100 Million Cores Coming By 2018
A key topic at this week's SC09 supercomputing conference, which takes place Nov. 14-20 in Portland, Ore., is how to reach the exascale plateau in supercomputing...
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Stanford-Led Research Helps Overcome Barrier For Organic Electronics
Stanford University researchers have determined why some transistors made of organic crystals do not allow electricity to flow through them as easily as other electronics...
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