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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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'hackathon' Events Proliferate For Student Programmers
A proliferation in hackathon events for student coders is occurring as tech firms seek talent and students look for hands-on experience.
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At Technology High School, Goal Isn't to Finish in 4 Years
Flakes of green paint are peeling from the third-floor windowsills.
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Image Analysis May Allow Pathologists to Expedite Diagnoses
Pennsylvania State University researchers are using image recognition technology to develop an automated method of classifying histopathological images.
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Robots That Perceive the World Like Humans
UPV/EHU-University researchers are studying how to improve robot behavior by means of perception models that are closer to those of humans.
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Ftc Offers $50,000 to Robocall Killers
The Federal Trade Commission is offering a cash reward of $50,000 to whoever develops a solution to block robotic calling on both landlines and mobiles.
From ACM TechNews
Women Use Emoticons More Than Men in Text Messaging :-)
Rice University researchers have found that women are twice as likely as men to use emoticons in text messages.
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The Internet of Things Will Transform Our Everyday
VTT researchers have developed several ubiquitous computing technologies, such as situation awareness for portable devices, mixed and augmented reality, and interoperability...
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Science in an Election Year
More than a dozen science and engineering organizations worked with ScienceDebate.org to draft 14 top science questions to ask the two main presidential candidates...
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Remembering Jon Postel—and the Day He Hijacked the Internet
One January day in 1998, Jon Postel emailed eight of the 12 organizations that handled the address books for the entire internet.
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Who Controls the Internet?
Have you ever noticed that wherever you are in the world, every telephone keypad looks the same? Or wondered why satellites don't crash into each other? Or why...
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Advanced Computer Simulator Aids in Emergency Service Management
Researchers in the Autonomous University of Barcelona's High Performance Computing for Efficient Applications and Simulation group have devised a computer simulator...
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Report Sees Decline in Voting Glitches ... but Vote-By-Mail Sparks Concern
The good news about voting technologyis that the upgrades put into place since the controversial 2000 presidential election have made ballot tallies twice as accurate...
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But How Do You Really Feel? Someday the Computer May Know
Affective computing is an emerging technology that aims to give computers the ability to read users' emotions.
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Next-Gen Touchpads Respond to Pressure
Researchers presenting at the recent User Interface Software Technology conference demonstrated projects that took advantage of Synaptics' new pressure-sensitive...
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The Future, as Imagined by Google
In Eric E. Schmidt's future, his life will be a lot easier.
From ACM Opinion
Why Is This Man Running For President of the Internet?
It's an unseasonably cold early October evening in Lincoln, Nebraska, and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian is giving his elevator pitch to a flustered but rapt...
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Using Cell Phone Data to Curb the Spread of Malaria
Researchers at HSPH and seven other institutions used cell phone data in Kenya to investigate how people's travel patterns contribute to the spread of malaria....
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Chips That Melt in Your Body, Not in Your Hands
Welcome to the brave new world of transient electonics.
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Campaigns Mine Personal Lives to Get Out Vote
Strategists affiliated with the Obama and Romney campaigns say they have access to information about the personal lives of voters at a scale never before imagined...
From ACM Opinion