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Capturing What is Said
Artificial intelligence is boosting the capabilities of automatic speech recognition.
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Harnessing the Speed of Light
The fields of data communication, fabrication, and ultrasound imaging share a common challenge when it comes to improving speed and efficiency: light's diffraction...
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Traffic Lights: There's a Better Way
A new means of computing the optimal timings for city stoplights can significantly reduce drivers' average travel times.
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Who's Using Your Data?
The HTTP with Accountability protocol is designed to track the transmission of private data and enable the data owner to see how it is used online.
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Social Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab Human Dynamics Laboratory director Alex Pentland is working on a new theory of human social interaction.
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Marvin Minsky Honored For Lifetime Achievements in Artificial Intelligence
MIT Media Lab professor emeritus Marvin Minsky, 86, a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence, has won the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award...
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New Approach to Vertex Connectivity Could Maximize Networks' Bandwidth
Researchers say they have developed a technique for addressing vertex-connectivity problems.
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Never Forget a Face
A new algorithm makes subtle changes to various points on a face to make it more memorable without changing the subject's overall appearance.
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New System Allows For High-Accuracy, Through-Wall, 3D Motion Tracking
WiTrack is a new a three-dimensional (3D) motion-tracking technology that uses radio signals to track a person through walls and other obstacles.
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Inexpensive 'nano-Camera' Can Operate at the Speed of Light
Researchers have created a $500 "nano-camera" that operates at the speed of light and could have applications in areas like medical imaging.
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A Computer Scientist's Approach to Medicine
Massachusetts Institute of Technology computer scientist Stephanie Seneff applies her natural language processing research to solving biological problems.
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Research Brings nbreakable Phones One Step Closer
A new method for transferring versatile electronics onto a flexible surface could contribute to the development of flexible displays, solar cells, and energy harvesters...
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Artificial-Intelligence Research Revives Its Old Ambitions
The birth of artificial-intelligence research as an autonomous discipline is generally thought to have been the monthlong Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial...
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In The World: Mapping the Logistics of Megacities
Logistics data on neighborhoods in several world cities is available online in an open-access pool of information that is graphically represented on city maps.
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3-D Mapping in Real Time, Without the Drift
A new mapping algorithm that creates real-time, detailed three-dimensional maps of indoor and outdoor environments.
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Views You Can se? How Online Ratings Affect Your Judgment
Are you influenced by the opinions of other people—say, in the comments sections of websites?
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Reliable Communication, nreliable Networks
Researchers recently unveiled a new framework for analyzing ad hoc networks.
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Neuroscientists Plant False Memories in the Brain
The phenomenon of false memory has been well-documented: In many court cases, defendants have been found guilty based on testimony from witnesses and victims who...
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Pruning the Power Grid
A new algorithm identifies the most dangerous pairs of failures among the millions of possible failures in a power grid.
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New System ses Low-Power Wi-Fi Signal to Track Moving Humans—even Behind Walls
The comic-book hero Superman uses his X-ray vision to spot bad guys lurking behind walls and other objects.
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