Tonie Hansen Eradicating worldwide poverty by 2030 is the top goal on the United Nations’ sustainable development agenda, published late last year. But a lack of data has frustrated efforts to measure progress toward the goal.
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Bumps, blows, blasts all cause traumatic brain injuries, which are fast becoming a top public health concern. To help diagnose damage to our most complex organ, researchers at Imperial College London are deploying sophisticated image analysis tools, powered by GPUs and deep learning.
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Haiti’s devastating 2010 earthquake collapsed much of the infrastructure essential for disaster response, including every hospital in the capital city, all transportation and every major communication system.
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Performing ocular microsurgery is about as hard as it sounds—and, until recently, eye surgeons had practically been flying blind in the operating room.
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While rising sea levels due to climate change have the potential to directly impact a quarter of the world’s population, accurately measuring this metric can be a vexing challenge for climate scientists.
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“All clear.” That’s the terrific news Jeet Samarth Raut’s mother heard after a radiological scan. Two weeks later, a second opinion revealed breast cancer. Certain that technology can do better, the young entrepreneur is using deep learning software powered by NVIDIA GPUs to reduce the number of incorrect diagnoses. Whether in Raut’s rural Illinois hometown… Read More
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Traveling to remote islands. Scrambling across cliffs to track their quarry. Installing acoustic sensors to detect its every move. Ornithologists — scientists who study birds — often have a little James Bond in them. And they’re increasingly using technology that would delight Bond’s gadget-happy “Q” to map nesting sites, record bird calls and monitor avian… Read More
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Black Friday is upon us, kicking off the holiday shopping season. While millions are scouring shopping malls for the best deals, GPU-powered technology from a promising startup, Cypheme, could be used to scrutinize the items in our carts to ensure they’re the genuine article. Cypheme’s quest began when the mother of one of its four… Read More
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Editor’s note: This is one of a series of five posts profiling finalists for NVIDIA’s 2015 Global Impact Award, which provides $150,000 to researchers using NVIDIA technology for groundbreaking work that addresses social, humanitarian and environmental problems. Bit by bit, Erez Lieberman Aiden is unfolding the genome. It’s not easy. Tightly folded inside the nucleus… Read More
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Editor’s note: This is one of a series of five posts profiling finalists for NVIDIA’s 2015 Global Impact Award, which provides $150,000 to researchers using NVIDIA technology for groundbreaking work that addresses social, humanitarian and environmental problems. Bit by bit, Erez Lieberman Aiden is unfolding the genome. It’s not easy. Tightly folded inside the nucleus… Read More
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