A team of researchers led by Jiajun Cao, a PhD candidate in the College of Computer and Information Science (CCIS) at Northeastern University, recently completed what appears to be the
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Meeting of the minds for machine intelligence
Tamara Broderick, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, was a presenter at the 2016 Machine Intelligence Summit. Credit: Marcy Rolerson Surviving breast cancer changed the course
Changing SIM card number for more secure mobile phone
Yet another path to smartphone break-ins and fraud? Trouble-seeking cryptographer and security researcher Karsten Nohl, the managing director of Security Research Labs, based in Berlin, Germany, has revealed that some
Mapping migrations by using mobile phone data
While cholera has hardly changed over the past centuries, the tools used to study it have not ceased to evolve. Using mobile phone records of 150,000 users, an EPFL-led study
Liquid silicon: Computer chips could bridge the gap between computation and storage
Software written by Jing Li, right, and her students — including Jialiang Zhang, left — allows programmers to directly use existing coding languages with the new Liquid Silicon chips. Credit:
New AI algorithm taught by humans learns beyond its training
Whether they are surfing the web in search of surf and turf, or browsing for the perfect grass-fed beef burger, more than 90 percent of U.S. consumers search online for
Google teaches machines to become more fluent translators
Quentin Hardy of The New York Times said it well: The tech industry is trying “to topple the Tower of Babel.” He said that 80 to 90 percent of the
Green-screen keying method cuts time, boosts quality in film compositing
Credit: Disney Research Filming an actor in front of a green screen and then superimposing the actor over another background is commonplace in feature film production, but getting rid of
Researchers have a better way to predict flight delays
Sina Khanmohammadi, lead author of the study and a Ph.D. candidate in systems science within the Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science at Binghamton University. Credit: Jonathan
Artificial-intelligence system surfs web to improve its performance
Of the vast wealth of information unlocked by the Internet, most is plain text. The data necessary to answer myriad questions—about, say, the correlations between the industrial use of certain
LawOS—regulations as society’s operating system
Credit: Santa Fe Institute Much as Linux, Windows, and iOS coordinate the execution of computing applications, laws coordinate the execution of human society. When new kinds of interactions emerge –
Accelerating cancer research with deep learning
A representation of a deep learning neural network designed to intelligently extract text-based information from cancer pathology reports. Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory Despite steady progress in detection and treatment
Giant machine shows how a computer works
[from L-R] Richard Grafton, Professor David May and Sam Russell, in front of the Big Hex Machine. Credit: University of Bristol A giant, fully operational 16-bit computer that aims to
Big data shows people’s collective behavior follows strong periodic patterns
Social network diagram. Credit: Daniel Tenerife/Wikipedia New research has revealed that by using big data to analyse massive data sets of modern and historical news, social media and Wikipedia page
Fighting the water army of fake reviewers
Large-scale solar power plants raise local temperatures, creating a solar heat island effect that, though much smaller, is similar to that created by urban or industrial areas, according to a
