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Researchers devise more effective location awareness for the Internet-of-(many)-Things

Anticipating a critical strain on the ability of fifth generation (5G) networks to keep track of a rapidly growing number of mobile devices, engineers at Tufts University have come up with an improved algorithm for localizing ...

Computer Sciences

12 hours ago
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Gauging language proficiency through eye movement

A study by MIT researchers has uncovered a new way of telling how well people are learning English: tracking their eyes.

Computer Sciences

May 22, 2018
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New startup Zapata Computing intends to market quantum computing software

A new startup called Zapata Computing has launched with the intention of creating and selling software for quantum computers. Representatives of the new company announced to the press that they have already received $5.4 ...

Computer Sciences

May 18, 2018
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Transforming transportation with machine learning

You hear the buzzwords everywhere—machine learning, artificial intelligence—revolutionary new approaches to transform the way we interact with products, services, and information, from prescribing drugs to advertising ...

Computer Sciences

May 17, 2018
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DeepMind uses neural network to help explain meta-learning in people

A team of researchers led by a group at Google subsidiary DeepMind has developed a theory regarding how human meta-learning works by comparing it to a certain type of deep learning network on computers. In their paper published ...

Computer Sciences

May 15, 2018
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Researchers hide information in plain text

Computer scientists at Columbia Engineering have invented FontCode, a new way to embed hidden information in ordinary text by imperceptibly changing, or perturbing, the shapes of fonts in text. FontCode creates font perturbations, ...

Computer Sciences

May 10, 2018
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Would Super Mario Bros. be better if you could play as yourself? Well, not exactly

The gaming experience over the last decade has evolved tremendously and player-customized avatars, or virtual doppelgangers, are becoming more realistic every day. Past studies have shown women may prefer avatars that don't ...

Computer Sciences

May 10, 2018
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Self-navigating AI learns to take shortcuts: study

A computer programme modelled on the human brain learnt to navigate a virtual maze and take shortcuts, outperforming a flesh-and-blood expert, its developers said Wednesday.

Computer Sciences

May 09, 2018
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Generative adversarial networks unleashed for new levels in video games

Some would find this AI-generated pain delicious. Others would want to yell at their parakeets. AI researchers, as discussed in two papers, are exploring how generative adversarial networks (GANs) can create new levels to ...

Computer Sciences

May 09, 2018
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New software, HyperTools, transforms complex data into visualizable shapes

Every dataset in the observable universe has a fundamental geometry or shape to it, but that structure can be highly complicated. To make it easier to visualize complicated datasets, a Dartmouth research team has created ...

Computer Sciences

May 07, 2018
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AI researchers study gaze and personality links outside the lab

The journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience have published a paper about how artificial intelligence can help predict your personality from your eye movements.

Computer Sciences

May 06, 2018
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When little robot will go through your rooms to find the orange purse

Hmm, once upon a time, we were impressed that this search phenomenon called Google could instantly answer questions and that is by just typing in words into a space bar. Mirabile dictu if you asked where is Miani Google would ...

Computer Sciences

May 04, 2018
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Using Google Street View to estimate travel patterns in cities

A study published today in PLOS ONE indicates that Google Street View has the potential to estimate how common cycling is in cities, and potentially other travel patterns too. The analysis of 2,000 Google Street View images ...

Computer Sciences

May 02, 2018
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Fairness needed in algorithmic decision-making, experts say

University of Toronto Ph.D. student David Madras says many of today's algorithms are good at making accurate predictions, but don't know how to handle uncertainty well. If a badly calibrated algorithm makes the wrong decision, ...

Computer Sciences

May 02, 2018
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Researchers' attack on data privacy system shows noise leaks the very data it is trying to protect

Demonstrating just how challenging it is to keep private data secure, researchers from Imperial College London have presented an attack on a new data privacy system called Diffix, whose breakthrough technology has recently ...

Computer Sciences

May 01, 2018
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NVIDIA researchers raise the bar on image inpainting

For those not yet familiar with photo reconstruction tools, the title of this paper on arXiv might be totally puzzling: "Image Inpainting for Irregular Holes Using Partial Convolutions." The research, though, from a NVIDIA ...

Computer Sciences

Apr 26, 2018
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Team turns deep-learning AI loose on software development

Computer scientists at Rice University have created a deep-learning, software-coding application that can help human programmers navigate the growing multitude of often-undocumented application programming interfaces, or ...

Computer Sciences

Apr 25, 2018
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Move over Tupac! Life-size holograms set to revolutionize videoconferencing

A Queen's University researcher will soon unveil TeleHuman 2—the world's first truly holographic videoconferencing system. TeleHuman2 allows people in different locations to appear before one another in life-size 3-D—as ...

Computer Sciences

Apr 25, 2018
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Researchers explore working up cartoons using text descriptions

What if you were told you can create cartoons by just working off text descriptions?

Computer Sciences

Apr 24, 2018
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Paint job transforms walls into sensors, interactive surfaces

Walls are what they are—big, dull dividers. With a few applications of conductive paint and some electronics, however, walls can become smart infrastructure that sense human touch, and detect things like gestures and when ...

Engineering Computer Sciences

Apr 23, 2018
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Neuroscientists train a deep neural network to process sounds like humans do

Using a machine-learning system known as a deep neural network, MIT researchers have created the first model that can replicate human performance on auditory tasks such as identifying a musical genre.

Computer Sciences

Apr 19, 2018
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How poker and other games help artificial intelligence evolve

When he was growing up in Ohio, his parents were avid card players, dealing out hands of everything from euchre to gin rummy. Meanwhile, he and his friends would tear up board games lying around the family home and combine ...

Computer Sciences

Apr 18, 2018
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A new way to build road maps from aerial images automatically

Map apps may have changed our world, but they still haven't mapped all of it yet. Specifically, mapping roads can be difficult and tedious: Even after taking aerial images, companies still have to spend many hours manually ...

Computer Sciences

Apr 17, 2018
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Google website offers new way to discover books and fun way to play with words

Google has launched a new website called Semantic Experience. The website indicates how Google is taking word play and serious research efforts to higher levels, and it all has to do with something called semantic search.

Computer Sciences

Apr 16, 2018
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Researchers work on algorithm that reveals face swaps

Image manipulation in this advanced stage of the digital age is not as much fun but a dicey weapon, in the shadows of fake news, to sway opinion and spark scandals.

Computer Sciences

Apr 13, 2018
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