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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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NFL Fighting Head Injuries with Technology
The NFL is turning to technology to both measure and mitigate pro football's effect on players' brains, pushing into unexplored territory as officials try to...
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Biometrics For Care Environments
U.K. researchers are exploring user-friendly ways to enable telecare systems and applications to recognize individuals from their facial and vocal characteristics...
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Algorithms Take Control of Wall Street
Last spring, Dow Jones launched a new service called Lexicon, which sends real-time financial news to professional investors. This in itself is not surprising...
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Local Coders Help Improve Government Functions
Local software programmers are helping to enhance U.S. government functions through efforts such as Code for America, a fellowship program that matches cities with...
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How New COMPETES Science Law Broadens NSF Education Programs
The reauthorization of the America COMPETES Act outlines program changes designed to guarantee that all the elements of the U.S. National Science Foundation are...
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2011: The Year of the Personal Robot?
Willow Garage's PR2 personal robot platform, released last year, could lead to new advances in robotic technology. Georgia Tech professor Charles Kemp. Kemp and...
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Keeping Women in Science on a Tenure Track
More women are obtaining Ph.D.s in science than ever before, but those women—largely because of pressures from having a family—are far more likely than their...
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Hackers Find New Way to Cheat on Wall Street
High-frequency trading networks, which complete stock market transactions in microseconds, are vulnerable to manipulation by hackers who can inject tiny amounts...
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The New Speed of Money, Reshaping Markets
A substantial part of all stock trading in the United States takes place in a warehouse in a nondescript business park just off the New Jersey Turnpike.
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Reauthorization of Competes Act Brings Changes to Nist
President Obama on Tuesday (Jan. 4) signed the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010, which provides several important updates to NIST funding, programs...
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IBM's Jeopardy Strategy: Divide and Conquer
When it comes tackling a challenge as tough as answering a human question, the best computational approach may be to break the job down into multiple parts and...
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Utah's $1.5 Billion Cyber-Security Center Under Way
Today's groundbreaking for a $1.5 billion National Security Agency data center is being billed as important in the short term for construction jobs and important...
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Can Cash Prizes For Innovation Get the Economy Rolling Again?
Contests for innovation are back in vogue and are a major component of the Obama administration's agenda for federal government support of private-sector R&D.
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Girls-Only Computer Class Hits Refresh on It's Geeky-Male Image
Canada's Cardinal Leger Secondary School teacher Dan Harmer put all the girls into a single computer science class, hoping that the single-sex environment would...
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Total Recall: Data Diaries Explain Who You Really Are
The collection, archival, and search of everyday personal experiences that are recorded by cameras and other devices could support the digital diaries envisioned...
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Interactive Window Shopping
Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications researchers have developed a three-dimensional camera system that enables consumers to interact with items inside window...
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3-D Steps Up to Decode Mobility
Stanford University researchers are using computer-generated 3-D simulations of human mobility to improve the lives of people with disabilities. The technique...
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Beyond Surveillance: Darpa Wants a Thinking Camera
It’s tough being an imagery analyst for the U.S. military: you’re drowning in pictures and drone video, with more pouring in endlessly from the tons of sensors...
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The American Wikileaks Hacker
Jacob Appelbaum fights repressive regimes around the world—including his own.
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