John Ngai, a professor at the University of California-Berkeley, will formally join the National Institutes of Health in March as director of the agency's large-scale program that aims to further understanding of human brain functions through neuroscience tools and insights.
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The Energy Department has named the University of Central Florida as the national winner of this year's CyberForce Competition. The contest aims to develop the next generation of cyber professionals in a push to protect the country's energy infrastructure from potential threats, DoE said Monday.
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has picked research teams that will develop new machine learning methods designed to enable artificial intelligence systems to adapt to new changes and implement previous knowledge and skills to new situations. DARPA said Thursday teams from the University of California in Irvine, Tufts University and …
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency plans to issue grants worth up to $65 million in total over the next four years to seven university teams that will study and develop gene editing tools. DARPA said Wednesday the teams will perform work under the Safe Genes program, which aims to explore …
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has developed mathematical tools and methods to help designers understand risks associated with the design and modeling of large military systems such as aerospace vehicles and engines. Research teams under DARPA’s Enabling Quantification of Uncertainty in Physical Systems program have developed uncertainty quantification tools to increase chances that new …
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The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has launched an effort to research and develop “quantum enhanced” computers. The Quantum Enhanced Optimization program aims to develop technology that can speed up the training of machine learning algorithms; support circuit fault diagnostics on larger circuits; and accelerate optimal scheduling of multiple machines on multiple tasks, the Office of …
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A team of scientists has started to develop a system that aims to identify mosquito-borne viruses and other pathogens as well as determine potential disease outbreaks through a project funded by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, New Republic reported Dec. 20. Eamonn Keogh, a computer science and engineering professor …
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NASA has awarded $30,000 in prize money to each of the five teams that won in the third ground tournament round of a $5 million competition that seeks to promote the development of small satellites for future space exploration missions. The space agency said Tuesday the winning teams in the …
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The National Science Foundation plans to invest $19 million to add three components into a network of research facilities dedicated to wind, water and earthquake hazards. NSF said Wednesday the five-year investment will cover the establishment of a network coordination office; a computational modeling and simulation center; and a post-disaster, rapid response research facility for the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure. Grace …
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Henning Schulzrinne, who previously served as chief technology officer at the Federal Communications Commission, will return to FCC as CTO and senior adviser for technology at the agency’s office of strategic planning and policy analysis. Schulzrinne will succeed FCC CTO Scott Jordan, who is set to leave the agency in December, …
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