Automatic bug-repair system fixes 10 times as many errors as its predecessors
MIT researchers have developed a machine-learning system that can comb through repairs to open-source computer programs and learn their general properties, in order to produce new repairs for a...
View ArticleLow-power chip processes 3-D camera data, could enable wearable device to...
MIT researchers have developed a low-power chip for processing 3-D camera data that could help visually impaired people navigate their environments. The chip consumes only one-thousandth as much power...
View ArticleSearch engines will know what you want ... sooner
If you enter "Oklahoma" in a search engine, you might get a travelogue, news about the oil industry, Oklahoma State football scores or an article on Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals. What appears at...
View ArticleThe science of jet noise
Daniel Bodony's love of science began with a love of airplanes. He worked for one of his dad's colleagues on the weekends who had an airplane. "I would mow his grass and he would let me fly," Bodony...
View ArticleA good night's sleep: Engineers develop technology for special needs children
A Kansas State University engineering team is developing a technology collection that can make a big difference in the lives of children with developmental disabilities.
View ArticleSystem lets web users share aspects of their browsing history with friends,...
Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developed a new system that allows web users to share self-selected aspects of their online activity with their...
View ArticleRoyal Navy uses pilotless aircraft to navigate through ice
A tiny pilotless aircraft, built by the University of Southampton, has launched from the Royal Navy's ice patrol ship HMS Protector for the first time to assist with navigating through the Antarctic.
View ArticleTech industry titans urge US to better fund science ed
Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook and Mark Zuckerberg were among tech titans who joined school officials, non-profits and state leaders to urge the US government to better back teaching computer science.
View ArticleSimplifying the complex design of 3-D printed jewelry
Do-it-yourself jewelry design can bring to mind visions of failed pony bead necklaces or braided friendship bracelets. So when it comes to fashionable jewelry, is it better to leave the design to the...
View ArticleLTU computer scientist to present groundbreaking research
Dr. Ben Choi, associate professor of computer science at Louisiana Tech University, will present his research on a groundbreaking new technology that has the potential to revolutionize the computing...
View ArticleCan computers do magic?
Magicians could join composers and artists in finding new ideas for their performances by using computers to create new magic effects, according to computer scientists at Queen Mary University of...
View ArticleEye-tracking system uses ordinary cellphone camera
For the past 40 years, eye-tracking technology—which can determine where in a visual scene people are directing their gaze—has been widely used in psychological experiments and marketing research, but...
View ArticleAnonymity network can protect users' identity if all but one of its servers...
Anonymity networks protect people living under repressive regimes from surveillance of their Internet use. But the recent discovery of vulnerabilities in the most popular of these networks—Tor—has...
View ArticleScientists move one step closer to creating an invisibility cloak
Scientists at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) have made an object disappear by using a composite material with nano-size particles that can enhance specific properties on the object's surface.
View ArticleWearable cloud could be less expensive, more powerful form of mobile computing
Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham are exploring the concept of a wearable personal cloud—a fully functioning, yet compact and lightweight cloud computing system embedded into...
View ArticleStreamlining accelerated computing for industry
Scientists and engineers striving to create the next machine-age marvel—whether it be a more aerodynamic rocket, a faster race car, or a higher-efficiency jet engine—depend on reliable analysis and...
View ArticleNew programming language delivers fourfold speedups on problems common in the...
In today's computer chips, memory management is based on what computer scientists call the principle of locality: If a program needs a chunk of data stored at some memory location, it probably needs...
View ArticleAcoustic resonator device paves the way for better communication
Yale researchers have developed a high-frequency version of a device known as an acoustic resonator that could advance the field of quantum computing and information processing.
View ArticleMeeting of the minds for machine intelligence
Surviving breast cancer changed the course of Regina Barzilay's research. The experience showed her, in stark relief, that oncologists and their patients lack tools for data-driven decision making....
View ArticleImage-based modeling of body tissues
A team of researchers from the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), in collaboration with their colleagues from the University of Oklahoma, have demonstrated a novel, image-based simulation...
View ArticleSystem finds and links related data scattered across digital files, for easy...
The age of big data has seen a host of new techniques for analyzing large data sets. But before any of those techniques can be applied, the target data has to be aggregated, organized, and cleaned up.
View ArticleModifying the 'middle end' of a popular compiler yields more-efficient...
Compilers are programs that convert computer code written in high-level languages intelligible to humans into low-level instructions executable by machines.
View ArticleInnovation in brain imaging
Writers and scientists throughout history have searched for an apt technological analogy for the human brain, often comparing it to a computer. For Pulkit Grover, Carnegie Mellon University assistant...
View ArticleTracking the movement of cyborg cockroaches
New research from North Carolina State University offers insights into how far and how fast cyborg cockroaches - or biobots - move when exploring new spaces. The work moves researchers closer to their...
View ArticleHigh-throughput computing plays pivotal role in knee biomechanics research
Unlike the assembly of a machine, there is no "one-size-fits-all" approach to medicine. Darryl Thelen, Harvey D. Spangler Professor in mechanical engineering and biomedical engineering at the...
View ArticleComputer pioneer Robert W. Taylor dies at 85
Robert W. Taylor, who was instrumental in creating the internet and the modern personal computer, has died. He was 85.
View ArticleMiniaturised 'heat engines' could power nanoscale machines of the future
Research from The University of Manchester has thrown new light on the use of miniaturised 'heat engines' that could one day help power nanoscale machines like quantum computers.
View ArticleResearchers find computer code that Volkswagen used to cheat emissions tests
An international team of researchers has uncovered the mechanism that allowed Volkswagen to circumvent U.S. and European emission tests over at least six years before the Environmental Protection...
View ArticleThree-dimensional chip combines computing and data storage
As embedded intelligence is finding its way into ever more areas of our lives, fields ranging from autonomous driving to personalized medicine are generating huge amounts of data. But just as the flood...
View ArticleThe sublime challenge of jet noise
Humans make a lot of noise. The riffs of heavy metal bands like Metallica and Kiss have soared to levels in the 130-decibel range, levels sure to lead to auditory damage.
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