Tag: computer science
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Tracking Algorithms Devised to ID Human Traffickers
Computer scientists developed techniques that help identify the people placing sexual service advertisements by tracing the bitcoin payments for those ads.
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Infographic — Effects of Automation at Work
Our friends at Statista presented data from a survey by KRC Research on opinions of automation at work, broken down by management and workers.
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Creative Ideas Mined with Crowdsourcing, Neural Nets
A computer science team developed a process that combines crowdsourcing and artificial intelligence to find analogies across disciplines to spark creative ideas.
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University Spins Off Educational Robot Start-Up
A start-up enterprise spun-off from Harvard University is developing a learning system with robotics to teach computer coding to students.
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Genomics Company Acquires Open-Source Biomedical Platform
A company providing whole genome analysis is acquiring an enterprise developing open-source computational software for biomedical uses, such as precision medicine.
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University, Company Employ AI for Anti-Aging Drugs
The medical analytics company Insilico Medicine is partnering with a university in Denmark to apply artificial intelligence to find new treatments for diseases associated with early aging.
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Life Science Execs: Financial, IP Info Top Hacker Targets
Technology executives at pharmaceutical and medical device enterprises in the U.S. say financial and intellectual property assets are their top targets for hackers, according to survey results released today.
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FDA Clears Algorithm-Assisted Cancer Diagnosis
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared for marketing a diagnostics system aided by machine learning algorithms to help radiologists detect breast cancer.
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S&P 500 Tech Stocks Surpass Dot-Com Peak
On Wednesday, Standard & Poor’s index of 500 stocks in the information technology industry closed at 992.29, its highest point since March 2000, at the height of the dot-com boom, when the index reached 988.49.
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Robot Designed to Grow into Shapes, Spaces
Engineering researchers created a new type of robot that grows to extend its form into spaces like a vine, rather than move to different locations.