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Organizing Unstructured Data
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Material Could Bring Optical Communication Onto Silicon Chips
Researchers say they have created a solution to the "interconnect bottleneck" that slows communication between different chip elements.
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Making Datacenters More Energy Efficient
BlueCache is a more energy-efficient datacenter caching system that uses flash memory.
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Watch 3-D Movies at Home, Sans Glasses
"Home3D" allows users to watch three-dimensional movies without wearing special glasses.
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sing Chip Memory More Efficiently
Jenga is a new system that reallocates a chip's memory cache access in real time to create "cache hierarchies" designed to the needs of particular programs.
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Drones That Drive
Researchers are developing robots that can maneuver around on land and fly through the air.
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Toward Optical Quantum Computing
Researchers at MIT have developed a device enabling photon-photon interactions at room temperature by applying a silicon crystal etched with patterns to introduce...
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Wearable System Helps Visually Impaired sers Navigate
A new system to help visually impaired users navigate employs a three-dimensional camera, a belt with vibrational motors, and a refreshable Braille interface.
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Faster, More Nimble Drones on the Horizon
Researchers have developed an algorithm to tune a Dynamic Vision Sensor camera to detect only specific changes in brightness that matter for a particular system...
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sing Bitcoin to Prevent Identify Theft
A new system uses bitcoin's security mechanisms to foil online identify thieves.
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Speeding p Quality Control For Biologics
Engineers have developed a new method for analyzing biologics in production, based on a series of nanoscale filters.
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Cinematography on the Fly
Researchers are working to improve the performance of autonomous drones in capturing video for movies.
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Teaching Robots to Teach Other Robots
C-LEARN is a system designed to let users teach robots skills that they can pass along to other robots.
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Teaching Robots to Teach Other Robots
Most robots are programmed using one of two methods: learning from demonstration, in which they watch a task being done and then replicate it, or via motion-planning...
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Mapping the Edge of Reality
Researchers have developed a genetic algorithm to confirm the rejection of classical ideas of causality.
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Faster Page Loads
Flowtune is a new system for allocating bandwidth in datacenter networks.
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Protecting Web sers' Privacy
Splinter is a new encryption system that disguises users' database queries so they reveal no private information.
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Sharing the Fares
The potential for urban ride-sharing is similar for a variety of cities all over the world.
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Artificial Data Give the Same Results as Real Data--Without Compromising Privacy
The Synthetic Data Vault is a new machine-learning system that automatically creates synthetic data, which can be used in data science efforts that otherwise would...
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Wearable AI System Can Detect a Conversation's Tone
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a system that utilizes a wearable device and artificial intelligence to detect whether the...
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