Software
Robotic systems are set to be introduced in a wide range of real-world settings, ranging from roads to malls, offices, airports, and healthcare facilities. To perform consistently well in these environments, however, robots ...
Engineering
What do you get when you cross a novel approach to water harvesting with a light fog? The answer: a lot more water than you expected.
Apr 17, 2020
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Machine learning & AI
Researchers have found that out of the more than 300 COVID-19 machine learning models described in scientific papers in 2020, none of them is suitable for detecting or diagnosing COVID-19 from standard medical imaging, due ...
Mar 15, 2021
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Internet
Most people call an internet outage an annoyance. The researchers at USC's ANT Lab (Analysis of Network Traffic) call it a data point.
Nov 1, 2023
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Software
Google has partnered with Harvard Medical School to launch an app that allows anyone with an Android phone to participate in medical studies.
Engineering
The number of Americans with visual impairment or blindness is expected to jump to more than 8 million by the year 2050, according to research lead by the USC Gayle and Edward Roski Eye Institute conducted back in 2016.
Apr 18, 2022
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Engineering
We live in a world of wireless signals flowing around us and bouncing off our bodies. MIT researchers are now leveraging those signal reflections to provide scientists and caregivers with valuable insights into people's behavior ...
May 8, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
Two fundamental goals of humanity are to eradicate poverty and reduce climate change, and it is critical that the world knows whether achieving these goals will involve trade-offs. New IIASA research for the first time provides ...
Nov 18, 2019
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Engineering
Suppose you have 10 taxis in Manhattan. What portion of the borough's streets do they cover in a typical day?
Jun 12, 2019
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Engineering
Traditional Audio Description (AD) consists of an audio track in the third person that provides information on the visual layer of a film or television program. The current use of traditional AD can sometimes overlap with ...
Nov 1, 2021
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