Tag: computer science
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3-D Printing Devised for Sensors in Soft Robotics
Engineering researchers developed techniques using three-dimensional printing that enables robotic devices made with soft materials, like those in health care, to sense more properties of objects they encounter.
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Protein Engineered to Boost Nerve Cell Imaging
Engineers and neuroscientists developed a synthetic protein that illuminates electrical activity in animal brain nerve cells, with a process using robotics to test millions of protein candidates in cells.
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A.I./Image Analysis Diagnose Eye, Lung Diseases
Researchers developed more efficient computational tools with artificial intelligence (A.I.) to diagnose retinal diseases and pneumonia by analyzing retinal scans and X-ray images.
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Cardiac Augmented-Reality Hologram System in Development
A start-up company spun-off from Washington University in St. Louis was awarded a grant to advance an augmented reality system that displays an interactive hologram of a patient’s heart, to simplify cardiac procedures.
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Infographic – Software Security Risks at Record Level
This weekend’s infographic is from our friends at Statista who published a recent chart showing the almost constant rise in security risks since 2010 due to software, recorded by Hasso-Plattner-Institute in Germany.
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Smart Thermometer Data Speed Flu Forecasting
Data collected from electronic thermometers are shown by researchers to track and report the spread of influenza cases in the U.S. faster than federal health authorities, as well as provide more up-to-date forecasts.
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Brain Wave Data Harnessed for Open-Source Brain Model
A lab in Germany created a technique for discovering a person’s neurological patterns from brain waves captured with a headset and simulated with population-wide brain data run on open-source software.
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Microsoft Providing A.I. for Big Data Cancer Research
Seven research teams are receiving grants to study complex problems in cancer immunotherapy with large-scale data sets, and assistance with machine learning and artificial intelligence provided by Microsoft Corp.
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Institute Using Software to Boost Results Reproducibility
A genomics research lab in the U.K. is adding software to automate data collection that its developer says can improve the productivity of scientists and reproducibility of their findings.
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Infographic – Artificial Intelligence in Smartphones
Our friends at Statista recently documented the leading ways artificial intelligence is used in smartphones, which is this weekend’s infographic.