Science and Enterprise

Tag: computer science

  • Clinical Trial Record Security Deemed Inadequate

    A study of Canadian clinical trial practices shows serious vulnerabilities in the security of participants’ personal data when the data are shared among authorized stakeholders. The findings appear online in the 11 February issue of the Journal of Medical Internet Research. The study, by Khaled El-Emam of Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute in…

  • Student Engineering Works Become Products for Disabled Vets

    Last year, four University at Buffalo (UB) computer engineering undergraduates developed a software program to enable quadriplegics and other people with limited mobility to use computers productively with one button. The students are now working with a federal government contractor to tailor the software for disabled veterans, and have formed a company to distribute the…

  • Machine Learning Helps Decipher Consumer Medical Searches

    Many consumers turn to Web sites like WebMD for comprehensive health and medical information, but they cannot help as much if visitors searching the sites use unclear or unorthodox language to describe their conditions. A group of Georgia Tech researchers in Atlanta have created a machine-learning model that enables the sites to learn visitors’ dialect…