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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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Carnegie Mellon Researcher Creates Song-O-Matic
Carnegie Mellon University's Burr Settles has developed Titular, software that helps songwriters come up with titles for their new songs. Titular produces five...
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Tv Broadcasters Resist FCC Proposal to Surrender More Airwaves
Many broadcasters are already worried about declining viewers, and now they say the government wants to take away something more: the airwaves themselves.
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Groundbreaking Edsac Computer to Be Recreated at Bletchley Park
The Computer Conservation Society has commissioned a working replica of the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC), the U.K.'s first fully operational...
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Wikipedia Is Turning 10, and Founder Jimmy Wales Has Big Plans
For a very long while, knowledge was privileged and so were books, and only privileged people had access to either. Then came printing presses and libraries,...
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Online Game Teaches Citation Skills
A new online game turns collecting citations into a competitive event for students. BiblioBouts enables students to judge the relevance and credibility of sources...
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Dazzling Dual-Core Phones and Tablets
New processors are a big improvement, but it will take time for apps to take advantage.
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Gigapixel Cameras Create Highly Revealing Snapshots
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has been developing a camera that can take gigapixel images with one snapshot. Columbia University researchers...
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Virtual Reality Maps
Images from public photo-sharing sites like Flickr and Google are being used by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington...
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Perfecting Animation, via Science
Eitan Grinspun, the director of Columbia University’s Computer Graphics Group, doesn't quite qualify as hairdresser to the stars.
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Android Programming's ps and Downs
As smartphones using Google's Android operating system become mainstream, James Steele and Nelson To are in a pretty good position.
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Ibm Expects Holographic Phone Calls, Air-Powered Batteries By 2015
By 2015, your mobile phone will project a 3D image of anyone who calls and your laptop will be powered by kinetic energy. At least that’s what International Business...
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Photo Project Aims to Preserve Time in 3D
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology researchers have developed a method to preserve the world's treasures in three-dimensional life-like models using...
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India's Elephantine Effort
An ambitious biometric ID project in the world's second most populous nation aims to relieve poverty, but faces many hurdles.
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The Touchy Subject of Haptics
After more than 20 years of research and development, are haptic interfaces finally getting ready to enter the computing mainstream?
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Nonlinear Systems Made Easy
Pablo Parrilo has discovered a new approach to convex optimization that creates order out of chaos in complex nonlinear systems.
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Video Games Boost Brain Power, Multitasking Skills
Parents, the next time you fret that your child is wasting too much time playing video games, consider new research suggesting that video gaming may have real...
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Connecting Kinects For Group Surveillance
A doctoral student at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne has patented a new algorithm that leverages multiple Microsoft Kinect interface devices to track...
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At Siggraph Asia, the Sky Is the Limit
A focal point of SIGGRAPH Asia 2010 is the Computer Animation Festival, which features the best in computer animation and visual effects. The festival screens...
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