Tag: Big Data
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Teaching self-driving cars to predict pedestrian movement
Data gleaned from cameras and sensors increases predictive accuracy.
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How connected vehicles’ wipers could help prevent flooding
We’ve been promised all kinds of benefits from a future of connected vehicles, but flood control?
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Mining soundwaves: Researchers unlock new data in sonar signals
“Acoustic fields are unexpectedly richer in information than is typically thought.”
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A new company, Omniscent, is sniffing out dangerous levels of toxic chemicals in the air
Subscription service offers real-time monitoring
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Has the Olympics changed how it measures false-starts in track?
A Q&A with a biomechanics expert who has researched reaction times
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Fake news detector algorithm works better than a human
System sniffs out fakes up to 76 percent of the time.
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A breakthrough for large scale computing
New software finally makes ‘memory disaggregation’ practical.
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$6.25M MURI project will decode world’s most complex networks
New tools could fight crime, protect financial system
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Benton Harbor partners with U-M researchers to bolster public transit
Surveys and electronic tracking will help boost transit efforts to connect residents with jobs.
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Computing + data wide across the curriculum
Rob Rutenbar points out that people need a systematic middle way to take CS “wide” into diverse disciplines.
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“Learning database” speeds queries from hours to seconds
Verdict can make databases deliver answers more than 200 times faster while maintaining 99 percent accuracy.
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Next-gen computing inspired by biology
New memristor chips can see patterns over pixels