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Learn a Language While You Text
An MIT graduate student's "WaitChatter" app teaches vocabulary during moments in between text and instant-message replies.
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Advancing Security and Trust in Reconfigurable Devices
A research team at the Georgia Tech Research Institute is studying a range of security challenges involving field programmable gate arrays.
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Self-Powered Intelligent Keyboard Could Provide a New Layer of Security
By analyzing such parameters as the force applied by key presses and the time interval between them, a new self-powered non-mechanical intelligent keyboard could...
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Crowd Science Provides Major Boost for Certain Research Projects
Crowd science, or citizen science, is making possible research projects that might otherwise be out of reach, tapping thousands of volunteers and attracting interest...
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Watson Goes to College
Students in Ashok Goel's Computational Creativity class at Georgia Tech are enjoying extraordinary access to IBM's Watson supercomputer this semester.
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Georgia Tech Professor Proposes Alternative to Turing Test
Researcher Mark Riedl has developed a test to assess a computer's capacity for human-level intelligence through its ability to create rather than to converse...
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Georgia Tech Releases 2015 Emerging Cyber Threats Report
In its latest Emerging Cyber Threats Report, Georgia Tech warns about loss of privacy; abuse of trust between users and machines; attacks against the mobile ecosystem...
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RFID Technology Helps Robots Find Household Objects
Researchers have developed a search algorithm that improves a robot's ability to find and navigate to UHF RFID-tagged objects located throughout a home.
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Personal Touch Signature Makes Mobile Devices More Secure
Researchers from Georgia Tech have developed a security system that continuously monitors how a user taps and swipes a mobile device, and locks the device if the...
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Robotic Prosthesis Turns Drummer into a Three-Armed Cyborg
Professor Gil Weinberg of Georgia Tech has created a robotic drumming prosthesis that can be attached to an amputee to allow for more control and creativity with...
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'What You See Is What You Send'
Researchers at Georgia Tech have created a prototype software that takes steps to prevent malware from sending spam emails, instant messages, or money transfers...
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Single Chip Device to Provide Real-Time 3-D Images from Inside the Heart and Blood Vessels
Researchers have developed the technology for a catheter-based device that would provide real-time, three-dimensional imaging from inside a human's heart, coronary...
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How Politics Divide Facebook Friendships
Facebook could help diffuse possible arguments and alleviate tension between friends by displaying their shared interests during confrontational conversations,...
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Collaborative Software Helps Systems Engineers Link Performance and Cost
An advanced web-based tool created at a team at the Georgia Tech Research Institute allows users to visualize a systems engineering project's potential expense...
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Human Arm Sensors Make Robot Smarter
Using arm sensors that can "read" a person's muscle movements, Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have created a control system that makes robots more...
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Graphene-Based Nano-Antennas May Enable Networks of Tiny Machines
By taking advantage of the unique electronic properties of graphene, researchers believe they could generate a type of electronic surface wave that would allow...
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Cyber Report Warns of Threats to Cloud Data Storage, Mobile Devices
Few of the growing number of businesses that find their way into the cloud engage in security measures beyond those provided by the associated cloud storage firm...
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Putting a Face on a Robot
A new study from the Georgia Institute of Technology finds that older and younger people have varying preferences about what they would want a personal robot to...
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Device Captures Signatures and Fingerprints with Tiny Piezo-phototronic LEDs
Researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a sensor device that converts mechanical pressure — from a signature or a fingerprint — directly into light signals that...
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Georgia Tech Uncovers iOS Security Weaknesses
Researchers from the Georgia Tech have discovered two security weaknesses that permit installation of malware onto Apple mobile devices using seemingly innocuous...
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Scientists Reach Milestone for Quantum Networks
Researchers at Georgia Tech are reporting a quantum network milestone: they've entangling light with an optical atomic coherence composed of interacting atoms...1234