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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Information School Team App For West African Fishermen Snags Sustainable Fishing Prize
A team from the University of California, Berkeley's School of Information won the grand prize of the Fishackathon programming challenge.
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Female Tech Staff 'in Decline' in the U.k.
A new report finds the gender gap in the U.K. information technology industry is getting worse.
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Mobile Apps Enable Professional Development
Continuing Education begins adapting to the smartphone.
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Computing Crime and Punishment
Scientists and historians have performed a computational analysis of historical court records in London.
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Revolutionizing How We Keep Track of Time in Cyber-Physical Systems
A U.S. National Science Foundation to five universities will support development of new clocking technologies, synchronization protocols, and control and sensing...
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New Computer Program Aims to Teach Itself Everything About Anything
Computer scientists say they have developed the first fully automated computer program that pairs textual and visual data to learn visual concepts.
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Football-Playing Robots Eye Their Own Cup, and Beyond
The premiere event for robotic football (soccer) is scheduled for Brazil in July, and the University of Pennsylvania robotics lab will be seeking a fourth consecutive...
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Thermal Camera Turns Many Things Into Interactive Surfaces
Augmented reality company Metaio is developing technology that could enable people to use all kinds of objects as interactive touch surfaces.
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Online Marketing Schemes Can Still Lure Customers
Despite legislation and warnings, online consumers remain susceptible to post-transaction marketing schemes.
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The Complex Mathematics of Robot Wrestling
Researchers at Utsunomiya University in Japan have written a mathematical model for the sport of wrestling, which they have tested in a numerical simulation.
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Data, Data Everywhere
The MOOC Research Initiative has released the results of 22 projects pertaining to massive open online courses.
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N nveils Big Data Climate Change Challenge
The United Nations is hosting the Big Data Climate Challenge, a global competition to facilitate the use of big data to address issues related to climate change...
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Genes in the Cloud: Google Steps Into Autism Research
Google and Autism Speaks will house the sequencing of 10,000 complete genomes and other clinical data with the goal of accelerating research on autism.
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Modifying Behavior with Wearable Technologies
Created to monitor individuals’ activities, feedback from wearable technologies can help users learn from mistakes and behave better.
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How to Raise a Personable Robot
Social roboticist Heather Knight's research focuses on making robots socially expressive so they can interact with people on a more personable level.
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Social Media Garden Is First Step in Creating 'emotional' Buildings
Computer scientists and architects are exploring whether architecture is able to reflect and map human emotions.
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App Paired With Sensor Measures Stress and Delivers Advice to Cope in Real Time
ParentGuardian is a smartphone-based system designed to detect stress in parents and help decrease that stress during interactions with their children.
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Deeper Than Ancestry.com, 'evocor' Identifies Gene Relationships
EvoCor is a new search engine that identifies genes that are functionally linked.
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Computer Model Predicts Academic Success
The mantra "publish or perish" is drilled into every early-career scientist—and for good reason, a computer model suggests.
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