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IC calls on academia, industry to help with new technologies for pandemic
June 15, 2020
Federal News Network - The intelligence community is looking for what it calls tools and technologies for rapid capabilities against the pandemic. And it’s calling on industry and...
Sensors and Sensibility: USC Researchers Develop State-of-the-Art Biometric Security Systems
June 15, 2020
USC Viterbi School of Engineering - Biometrics systems like iris scanning or fingerprint recognition are no longer fantastical concepts of a distant sci-fi future. From iPhone fing...
Scientists Develop Device for Detecting Early Stages of Lung Problems Caused by COVID-19
June 02, 2020
Technology Networks - Air Force Research Laboratory scientists are working with University of Michigan and Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity researchers to build and...
Understanding the role of cardiorespiratory fitness and body composition in brain health
June 02, 2020
EurekAlert! - Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology examined how cardiorespiratory fitness and body composition relate to neuronal health in 290 healthy young adult...
The Air Force has a bomb detector that can sniff out life-threatening coronavirus cases
June 02, 2020
BGR - One of the problems with the novel coronavirus is that some people will experience a more severe case of the disease, especially the elderly and people suffering from other m...
Intelligence Community Wants Better Tech for COVID-19 and the Next Pandemic
June 01, 2020
Nextgov - U.S. pandemic researchers and responders were caught flat-footed by COVID-19, but the intelligence community’s lead research division wants to catch up and be ready for t...
The Intelligence Community Wants New COVID-19 Tracking Tools
May 29, 2020
Defense One - The U.S. intelligence community’s research lab has put out a call for new data tools to track and predict the spread of COVID-19 and its effects....the Intelligence A...
‘Superforecasters’ Say a Covid-19 Vaccine Is Still a Ways Off
May 27, 2020
Bloomberg Business Week - People who get paid to make forecasts say there’s only a 9% chance that there will be a widely available vaccine for Covid-19 before next April. That’s ac...
Mapping our COVID-19 recovery
April 30, 2020
The University of Melbourne - SWARM technology has brought together the country’s leading experts from Australian universities to work on our recovery after COVID-19.... We were ta...
It’s Not Magic, It’s Science: Predicting the Future
February 21, 2020
USC Viterbi School of Engineering - It could be argued that scientists create superpowers in their labs. If Aram Galstyan, director of the Artificial Intelligence Division at the U...