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Doctors Use Big Data to Cut Sepsis Down to Size
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Doctors Use Big Data to Cut Sepsis Down to Size

Doctors are using computers to analyze demographic information, vital signs, and routine blood tests in electronic health records to find patterns that might help...

Smart Jumpsuit Monitors Infants' Movement and Development
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Smart Jumpsuit Monitors Infants' Movement and Development

Researchers have developed a multi-sensor smart jumpsuit that measures the spontaneous and voluntary movement of infants to help assess abnormal neurological development...

VR Will Help Train Ford Mustang Mach-E Technicians
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VR Will Help Train Ford Mustang Mach-E Technicians

Technicians soon will be trained how to service and maintain the all-electric Mustang Mach-E without need to access a physical model — thanks to a new virtual reality...

AI May Alter How Doctors Treat Depression
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AI May Alter How Doctors Treat Depression

Research shows artificial intelligence can accurately predict whether an antidepressant will work based on a patient's brain activity.

Children's Hospital and ORNL Leverage Data to Aid Mental Health
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Children's Hospital and ORNL Leverage Data to Aid Mental Health

Oak Ridge National Laboratory will partner with Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center to explore ways to deploy expertise in health data science that could...

Deep Learning System Accurately Forecasts Heat Waves, Cold Spells
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Deep Learning System Accurately Forecasts Heat Waves, Cold Spells

Rice University engineers have created a deep learning computer system based on an obsolete method of weather forecasting that can accurately predict extreme events...

Machine Learning Models Support Behavioral Practitioners
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Machine Learning Models Support Behavioral Practitioners

Machine learning algorithms are more accurate than dual-criteria methods at supporting the educational and clinical decisions made by teachers, mental-health professionals...

Data Science Community Rocked by Pet Adoption Contest Cheating Scandal
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Data Science Community Rocked by Pet Adoption Contest Cheating Scandal

A team of programmers scraped data from a pet adoption website to cheat in a $10,000 contest that was intended to help shelter pets get adopted.

Abbott Labs Forces Github to Remove Free Blood Glucose Monitoring Tool
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Abbott Labs Forces Github to Remove Free Blood Glucose Monitoring Tool

Abbott Labs used U.S. copyright law to force Diabettech, a diabetes treatment technology website, to remove from Github technical instructions and code for extracting...

Cigna Uses AI to Check if Patients Are Taking Their Medications
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Cigna Uses AI to Check if Patients Are Taking Their Medications

Health insurer Cigna is expanding an AI-based system it acquired with its purchase of Express Scripts. Early results showed success in helping patients with chronic...

Jenny Xu's App Helps Students Build Hackathon Teams
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Jenny Xu's App Helps Students Build Hackathon Teams

Jenny Xu, a junior at Stony Brook University, has developed and introduced Hacker Matcher, an app for team building at hackathons.

Machine Learning Leads to Novel Way to Track Parkinson's Severity
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Machine Learning Leads to Novel Way to Track Parkinson's Severity

Computer scientists and medical researchers used wearable sensors and algorithms to measure the severity of Parkinsonian tremors in patients performing daily acitivities...

Los Alamos AI Model Wins Flu Forecasting Challenge
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Los Alamos AI Model Wins Flu Forecasting Challenge

Dave Osthus and a Los Alamos National Laboratory team developed a computer model that outperformed 23 others in predicting the timing, peak, and short-term intensity...

How Boston Saved $5 Million by Routing School Buses With An Algorithm
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How Boston Saved $5 Million by Routing School Buses With An Algorithm

The Boston Public School District held a contest to determine the best solution for busing around 25,000 students to school every day. The winning algorithm improved...

U.S. BLS Ranks 22 High-Paying Tech Jobs
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U.S. BLS Ranks 22 High-Paying Tech Jobs

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ranked the wages of 22 occupations that rely heavily on computer science and data analysis.

Dubliner Wins Australia's Top Award for Women in Tech Start-Ups
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Dubliner Wins Australia's Top Award for Women in Tech Start-Ups

Annie Slattery, an Irish entrepreneur, has received Australia's top award for women in tech start-ups. The award was presented at the Hopper Down Under event, part...

Summer Camps Use Facial Recognition So Parents Can Watch From Home
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Summer Camps Use Facial Recognition So Parents Can Watch From Home

Summer camps are using facial recognition technology to allow parents to see what their children are up to while they are away from home.

Automating Artificial Intelligence for Medical Decision-Making
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Automating Artificial Intelligence for Medical Decision-Making

MIT computer scientists are exploring the use of artificial intelligence to improve medical decision-making by automating a key data-examination step that's usually...

Making It Easier to Program and Protect the Web
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Making It Easier to Program and Protect the Web

MIT Professor Adam Chlipala builds tools to help programmers more quickly generate optimized, secure code.

Student App Taps Computer Vision to See If Water is Safe to Drink
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Student App Taps Computer Vision to See If Water is Safe to Drink

Two students developed an AI-powered Android app capable of determining if potential drinking water is safe to drink.
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