Tag: computer science
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Federal, Corporate Grants to Fund Manufacturing Technology
A new public-private partnership will deliver $4.5 million in grant funding to help small- and medium-sized manufacturers in the U.S. Midwest make better use of advanced digital technology. The grants include $2 million from the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) and $2.5 million from private-sector, state, and institutional partners. The partners providing the $2.5 million…
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NIST Offers Updated Materials Stress-Simulation Software
Computer scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Maryland have improved its software for materials engineers to calculate the impact of stress on the internal structure of materials. The Object-Oriented Finite (OOF) element analysis software is available as a free download that runs on Unix systems or derivatives, such as…
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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…
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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…
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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…