4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn't Hear About this Week -- Episode 9
A new target for antibiotics, a dodecahedron device for the deep sea, electronic stickers to scale up the Internet of Things, and self-fertilizing bacteria with rhythm. It's your weekly briefing on the latest discoveries you might not hear about anywhere else, all with funding from the National ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
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' Frequency hopping' technique speeds past hackers, protecting billions of'things' connected by the
Researchers at MIT have improved upon a technique known as "frequency hopping," which protects data transmitted over the internet by sending them across random frequencies. Rather than randomize data in packets of thousands of bits, the MIT method does so with every 1 or 0 bit of data every ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
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A research team separates wheat from chaff, helping internet users digest confusing privacy policies
A team of scientists, led by Carnegie Mellon University, used artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to crawl 7,000 of the most popular websites' privacy policies and identify those that contain language about data collection and use, third-party sharing, data retention and user choice, among ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
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3-D-printed, WiFi-connected plastic objects could advance the Internet of Things
A novel approach to connecting everyday appliances via the Internet manages to wirelessly link objects without the use of batteries or electronics. Three-dimensionally printed, plastic objects, developed by researchers at University of Washington, employ a backscatter gear, spring and antenna ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
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Your 'anonmyized' web browsing history may not be anonymous.
Raising further questions about privacy on the internet, researchers from Princeton and Stanford universities have released a study showing that a specific person's online behavior can be identified by linking anonymous web browsing histories with social media profiles.This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
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The honeybee algorithm
What is the most efficient, and profitable, way to allocate computer servers to ever-changing internet traffic? Researchers funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) turned to honeybees to find the solution.
The researchers adapted a decade-old model of how honeybee colonies ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
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Wikidata: Verifiable, Linked Open Knowledge that Anyone Can Edit
The NIH Frontiers in Data Science Lecture
As the largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet, Wikipedia is one of the primary entry points to scholarly literature and a primary channel for the dissemination of scientific content. Scholarly communities may be less familiar with the role Wikipedia plays as a source of linked open data for a large number of applications and services. In this talk, Dr. Taraborelli will give an overview of Wikidata, the collaborative knowledge base that anyone can edit, and Wikipedia's fastest growing sister project. He will focus specifically on Wikidata initiatives of rele...
Source: Videocast - All Events - September 19, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Images and Texts in Medical History: Keynote Presentation
Keynote presentation to Images and Texts in Medical History: A Workshop in Methods, Tools, and Data from the Digital Humanities, April 11-13, 2016, a program hosted by the NLM, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and made possible through a multi-institutional collaboration involving the NEH, Virginia Tech, the Wellcome Library, and the Wellcome Trust.
Introductions and welcoming remarks:
Chair, Jeffrey S. Reznick, Chief, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine;
Betsy Humphreys, Acting Director, National Library of Medicine;
Margaret Plympton, Deputy Chairman, National Endowm...
Source: Videocast - All Events - March 16, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
HHS IPv6 Symposium
The Symposium will provide an opportunity for all leaders within HHS to learn about the significance of the next-generation Internet (IPv6) and its impact on the programs and mission of HHS. We will have experts from Internet registries/organizations, Internet service providers, cellular telecom providers, major IT product vendors and in-house government experts who will share their insight, best practices and lessons learned in the implementation of IPv6.Air date: 10/15/2014 8:30:00 AM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - September 9, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Conducting Internet Research: Challenges and Strategies for IRBs
Presented by: Laura Odwazny, JDCategory: SpecialAired date: 05/08/2014 (Source: Videocast - All Events)
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The Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) Lecture Series: Conducting Internet Research: Challenges and Strategies for IRBs
The current Federal regulations for the protection of human subjects in research were promulgated well before the widespread use of the Internet in the conduct of human subjects research, and assessing how the regulatory requirements apply to this type of research can be challenging for both investigators and IRBs. This session will address how specific requirements of the Federal regulations apply to research using the Internet and discuss strategies for managing the relevant ethical issues and regulatory considerations, including assessing the privacy and identifiability of subject information obtained via the Internet;...
Source: Videocast - All Events - April 9, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Conducting Internet Research: Challenges and Strategies for IRBs
The current Federal regulations for the protection of human subjects in research were promulgated well before the widespread use of the Internet in the conduct of human subjects research, and assessing how the regulatory requirements apply to this type of research can be challenging for both investigators and IRBs. This session will address how specific requirements of the Federal regulations apply to research using the Internet and discuss strategies for managing the relevant ethical issues and regulatory considerations, including assessing the privacy and identifiability of subject information obtained via the Internet;...
Source: Videocast - All Events - March 21, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
