Tag: computer science
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Mobile App, Start-Up Find Designated Drivers
A group of current and former students at Virginia Tech designed a smartphone app and started an organization to connect designated drivers to party-goers to take them home safely.
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Validation Scheme Proposed for Medical Algorithms
A law school professor urges developers, users, and regulators of machine learning in medicine to validate the algorithms that represent their underlying decision-making processes.
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Vital Signs Electronic Tag Designed to Aid First Responders
A simple electronic monitoring device that adheres to the chest aims to provide basic vital signs data to first responders and emergency medical staff in mass casualty situations.
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Report – U.S. Lags in Robotic Adoption
A report released today shows the U.S. and most European countries are falling behind most other developed countries, in adopting robotics into their economies.
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Radio Frequency Tags, A.I. Designed to Detect Unsafe Food
A computer engineering team designed a simple, inexpensive system for detecting food quality with radio-frequency tags applied to consumer products and machine learning algorithms.
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Munich Airport, MIT Lab Partner on Smart City
An engineering lab at MIT and the R&D hub at Munich, Germany’s international airport are studying the use of digital technologies to improve urban life, using the hub’s campus as a laboratory.
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Rapid Antimicrobial Resistance Diagnostics System Advances
Developers of a system that uses high-speed genomic analysis with standard semiconductor chips say they demonstrated an ability to sequence bacterial DNA directly from raw blood samples.
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Synthetic DNA Company Raising $70 Million in IPO
A 5 year-old enterprise developing synthetic DNA for medical and agricultural chemicals, as well as data storage, is raising $70 million in its initial public stock offering.
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Infographic – Top U.S. Cyber Crimes
Our friends at Statista reported on a study by the Internet Crime Complaint Center or IC3 that tracks cyber crimes in the U.S., our infographic for this weekend.
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NVIDIA, Scripps Partner on Medical Deep Learning Applications
A high-performance computer chip maker and life science research center are collaborating on extending deep learning, a form of artificial intelligence, into more areas of medical science and practice.