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DACC and Virgin Galactic Team Up to Explore Virtual Reality

February 24, 2017February 23, 2017 by Anna Clark

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Published By: Las Cruces Sun-News, 2/10/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Doña Ana Community College (DACC) and Virgin Galactic are teaming up to create a new educational outreach program. The partnership focuses on new virtual…

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Tech Companies Are Building Tiny, Personal AIs to Keep Your Messages Private

February 21, 2017 by Nnamdi Onwumere

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Published By: Quartz, 2/10/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Technology companies, such as Facebook and Google, are developing artificial intelligence systems (AI) for mobile devices to improve the privacy of messaging applications. New AI innovations…

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Voice Control Everywhere

February 20, 2017February 20, 2017 by Michael Morguarge

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Published By: MIT News, 2/13/2017 >> View the Article << Summary A chip designed by MIT researchers may reduce the level of energy required to use speech recognition. This dedicated, application-specific speech-recognition chip will use up…

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Finding Credibility Clues on Twitter

February 6, 2017February 8, 2017 by Michael Morguarge

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Published By: Georgia Tech News Center, 1/26/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Georgia Tech Researchers have created an early prototype system that uses a language model to predict the perceived credibility of social media messages,…

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A String Quartet Concert, With an A.I. Assist

January 24, 2017 by Nnamdi Onwumere

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Published By: New York Times, 1/13/2017 >> View the Article << Summary "Sight Machine", a performance piece by Trevor Paglen, uses AI to generate a live image mapping of musicians as they play. The algorithm involves movement-analysis…

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Will Blockchain-Based Election Systems Make E-Voting Possible?

January 23, 2017January 23, 2017 by Michael Morguarge

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Published By: Government Technology, 1/11/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Kaspersky Lab held a contest for researchers exploring the use of blockchain accounting to verify electronic voting. The goals included secure methods of counting votes…

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Jill Watson, Round Three

January 17, 2017January 17, 2017 by Michael Morguarge

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Published By: Georgia Tech News Center, 1/9/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Georgia Technical University is working on ways to improve Jill Watson, an artificial intelligence system that fills the role of a virtual teaching…

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CES 2017: Alexa Is the Word as Amazon’s AI Comes to More Devices

January 9, 2017January 9, 2017 by Nnamdi Onwumere

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Published By: NBC News, 1/6/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Alexa, Amazon's voice-operated artificial intelligence assistant, is becoming more widely used in a variety of products, as more companies build and implement Alexa-based systems. This…

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What’s the Role of Social Media in the News Media?

December 14, 2016December 14, 2016 by John Daniell

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Published By: PRI (Public Radio International), 12/10/2016 >> View the Article << Summary Fake news stories shared on social media played a major role in the spread of misinformation during the 2016 U.S. elections and after, even spurring…

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Microsoft, Code.org Target Beginner Coders With Minecraft Programme

December 12, 2016December 14, 2016 by Anna Clark

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Published By: The Guardian (Nigeria), 12/9/2016 >> View the Article << Summary Mojang, Microsoft, and Code.org are teaming up to inspire a new generation of coders. The latest version of Code.org's Hour of Code is a…

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Google’s DeepMind AI Can Lip-Read TV Shows Better Than a Pro

December 2, 2016December 13, 2016 by Michael Morguarge

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Published By: New Scientist, 11/21/2016 >> View the Article << Summary The researchers at Google have trained an AI how to lip-read TV shows. Such an AI system could be used to help humans communicate with…

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Miniature WiFi Device Developed by Stanford Engineers Supplies Missing Link for the Internet of Things

December 1, 2016December 13, 2016 by John Daniell

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Published By: Stanford News, 11/16/2016 >> View the Article << Summary HitchHike, a proposed low-energy wireless radio from a research team at Stanford, seeks to provide a power-efficient method of communication between Internet of Things devices…

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