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November 18, 2017

Scalable Clusters Make HPC R&D Easy as Raspberry Pi

Nov. 13, 2017 — A quest to help the systems software community work on very large supercomputers without having to actually test on them has spawned an affordable, scalable system using thousands of inexpensive ... read more

System Could Let Thousands of Researchers Contribute to Data Analysis Projects

Oct. 31, 2017 — Researchers have developed a new collaboration tool, dubbed FeatureHub, intended to make feature identification more efficient and effective. With FeatureHub, data scientists and experts on ... read more

Auto-Fix Tool Gets More Programmers to Upgrade Code, Study Finds

Oct. 16, 2017 — Failure to make necessary upgrades to software code can have dire consequences, such as the major data breach at Equifax. A recent study finds that auto-fix tools are effective ways to get ... read more

Google Glass App Helps Autistic Children With Social Interactions

Sep. 14, 2017 — A new study demonstrates the potential of wearable technology as a social-skills aid for children with autism spectrum ... read more

New Software Turns Mobile-Phone Accessory Into Breathing Monitor

Sep. 13, 2017 — Researchers have developed new software that makes it possible to use low-cost, thermal cameras attached to mobile phones to track how fast a person is breathing. This type of mobile thermal imaging ... read more

Caching System Could Make Data Centers More Energy Efficient

Aug. 31, 2017 — Researchers have developed a new system for data center caching that uses flash memory, the kind of memory used in most ... read more

Artificial Intelligence Helps With Earlier Detection of Skin Cancer

Aug. 23, 2017 — New technology uses artificial intelligence (AI) to help detect melanoma skin cancer ... read more

Artificial Intelligence Predicts Dementia Before Onset of Symptoms

Aug. 22, 2017 — Imagine if doctors could determine, many years in advance, who is likely to develop dementia. Such prognostic capabilities would give patients and their families time to plan and manage treatment and ... read more

Loans Applications? New Techniques to Measure Social Bias in Software

Aug. 17, 2017 — Today, banks are increasingly using software to decide who will get a loan, courts to judge who should be denied bail, and hospitals to choose treatments for patients. These uses of software make it ... read more

Night Vision for Bird And Bat-Friendly Offshore Wind Power

Aug. 11, 2017 — ThermalTracker software analyzes video with night vision, the same technology that helps soldiers see in the dark, to help birds and bats near offshore wind ... read more

DNA Sequencing Tools Lack Robust Protections Against Cybersecurity Risks

Aug. 10, 2017 — A new study analyzing the security hygiene of common, open-source DNA processing programs finds evidence of poor computer security practices used throughout the field. In a scientific first, the team ... read more

When Robots Help With Shopping

Aug. 9, 2017 — Today, the desired book, toy or household appliance can be purchased by a click only -- thanks to online mail order business and smart logistics. The bottleneck in logistics, however, is the high-bay ... read more

Software Lets Designers Exploit the Extremely High Resolution of 3-D Printers

Aug. 4, 2017 — Today's 3-D printers have a resolution of 600 dots per inch, which means that they could pack a billion tiny cubes of different materials into a volume that measures just 1.67 cubic inches. Such ... read more

Online Assessment Could Improve Math Marks of Deaf Learners

Aug. 3, 2017 — Online mathematics assessment could help improve the mathematics performance of deaf and hard-of-hearing learners in South Africa, suggests a new ... read more

Algorithms That Can Sketch, Recreate 3-D Shapes

Aug. 1, 2017 — A computer scientist has created a new software that can create a design sketch of an everyday object, addressing the challenge of accurately describing ... read more

New Statistical Model Examines Massive Amounts of Data to Automatically Spot Anomalies

July 31, 2017 — With the number of security breaches and cyber-attacks on the rise, cyber-security experts may soon have a new tool in the fight against online threats. Scientists have developed a new statistical ... read more

3-D Models Help Scientists Gauge Flood Impact

July 18, 2017 — Using one of the world's most powerful supercomputers, a research team performed one of the first highly resolved, 3-D, volume-of-fluid Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulations of a ... read more

Kinect Scan of T. Rex Skull Addresses Paleontological Mystery

July 5, 2017 — A new system with $150 worth of hardware offers alternative to 3-D scanners that cost 200 times as much, report scientists who have used it on the skull of a T. rex ... read more

Task Force Finds Open Data's 2 Biggest Challenges Are Finding It and Using It When You Do Find It

June 30, 2017 — Two of the greatest challenges to effectively using open research data are that: even when it is notionally accessible researchers often simply cannot find that data, and if they do find it they ... read more

New Firewall Protects Cellphones from Security Threat

June 29, 2017 — Some 400 million people change their phone's components, such as touchscreens, chargers, and battery or sensor assemblies, which are all susceptible to significant security breaches and attacks. ... read more
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