Topic Models vs. Unstructured Data
With topic modeling, scientists can explore and understand huge collections of unlabeled information.
Gary Anthes
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Cloud computing offers many advantages, but also involves security risks. Fortunately, researchers are devising some ingenious solutions.
Mechanism Design Meets Computer Science
A field emerging from economics is teaming up with computer science to improve auctions, supply chains, and communication protocols.
Charles P. Thacker talks about the importance of simplicity, reusable tools, thinking broadly, and his practice of Tom Sawyering.
The relational model of data management, which dates to 1970, still dominates today and influences new paradigms as the field evolves.
Robots Gear Up For Disaster Response
After 15 years of research, robots for search and rescue may be nearing prime time.
Automated Translation of Indian Languages
India faces a daunting task trying to manually translate among 22 official languages, but assistance, in the form of advanced technology enabled by a lot of hard work, is on the way.
Researchers are using tools from information theory and computer science to facilitate the automatic creation of nanoscale structures.
Deep Data Dives Discover Natural Laws
Computer scientists have found a way to bootstrap science, using evolutionary computation to find fundamental meaning in massive amounts of raw data.
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