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A Wall-Crawling Roomba That Teaches Kids to Code

December 16, 2016December 15, 2016 by Michael Morguarge

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Published By: The Atlantic, 11/30/2016 >> View the Article << Summary A team of engineers from Harvard University have created a robot named Root, along with a multi-language coding environment to program it. Their goal is…

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Infrastructure Data for Everyone

December 9, 2016December 12, 2016 by Michael Morguarge

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Published By: Technical University of Munich, 12/5/2016 >> View the Article << Summary Technical University of Munich researchers have created a project named OpenGridMap that maps the locations of electrical infrastructure (part of OpenStreetMap). Their goal…

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It’s No Christmas No. 1, but AI-Generated Song Brings Festive Cheer to Researchers

December 8, 2016December 13, 2016 by John Daniell

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Published By: The Guardian, 11/29/2016 >> View the Article << Summary Researchers at the University of Toronto are working on a program that analyzes an image and then produces music based on the contents of that…

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Big Data Analytics — Nostradamus of the 21st Century

December 7, 2016December 13, 2016 by John Daniell

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Published By: Griffith University, 11/30/2016 >> View the Article << Summary Researchers at Griffith University successfully predicted the winner of the 2016 presidential election, including the outcomes in 49 out of 50 states, using data collected from…

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Meeting of the Minds for Machine Intelligence

December 5, 2016December 13, 2016 by Nnamdi Onwumere

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Published By: MIT News Office, 11/22/2016 >> View the Article << Summary Industry leaders and computer scientists are pushing for more use of machine intelligence so that machines can aid doctors, business corporations, investors and many…

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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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Paralyzed ALS Patient Operates Speech Computer With Her Mind

November 21, 2016November 21, 2016 by John Daniell

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Published By: UMC Utrecht (University Medical Center Utrecht), 11/13/2016 >> View the Article << Summary A patient suffering from ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) at UMC Utrecht, a hospital in the Netherlands, recently received a brain implant…

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Unlocking Big Genetic Data Sets

November 16, 2016November 17, 2016 by Michael Morguarge

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Published By: Columbia University, 11/9/2016 >> View the Article << Summary Researchers at Columbia University are studying the use of machine-learning algorithms to predict the ancestry of individuals. They plan to use this algorithm to track trends…

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New AI-Based Search Engines Are a “Game Changer” for Science Research

November 14, 2016November 14, 2016 by John Daniell

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Published By: Nature (Nature News), 11/11/2016 >> View the Article << Summary New AI-based search engines are emerging to compete with Google Scholar's keyword-based search algorithms. Both Semantic Scholar and Microsoft Academic leverage algorithms that can…

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Faster Programs, Easier Programming

November 10, 2016November 11, 2016 by Michael Morguarge

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Published By: MIT News, 11/7/2016 >> View the Article << Summary Researchers from MIT's CSAIL and Stony Brook University are researching ways to make using multi-core computers easier. They have created a method for describing, in…

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New Research Center to Explore Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

November 8, 2016November 9, 2016 by John Daniell

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Published By: The New York Times, 11/01/2016 >> View the Article << Summary Carnegie Mellon University has announced it will create a new research center to explore the ethics of artificial intelligence. This topic has increasing importance…

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UCLA Computer Scientists Develop Data Integrity Method to Prevent Tampering

November 7, 2016November 10, 2016 by Anna Clark

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Published By: UCLA Newsroom, 10/31/2016 >> View the Article << Summary Computer scientists from UCLA have developed a secure, one-way communication technique similar in concept to mailing a lock box and later mailing the key to…

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