Objectives: Missed and delayed breast cancer diagnoses are major sources of potential harm to patients and medical malpractice liability in the United States. Follow-up of abnormal mammogram results ...

During the nearly two decades I spent working on automotive electronic control systems like anti-lock brakes and stability control, one of the core design principles was fail-safe operation. Today, as ...

Our cells constantly flirt with disaster: Before each division, they duplicate hundreds -- often thousands -- of DNA snippets from each chromosome. But if any snippet gets copied twice, the daughter ...

LEROY AUTOMATION, a leading manufacturer of on-board automation systems for train control and management systems (TCMS), partnered with CLEARSY, a specialist in railway safety-critical systems, to ...

Two decades ago, between 1998 and 2003, the budget of the National Institutes of Health was doubled. This was an extraordinary enterprise after the multi-year post-Cold War decline in defense spending ...

One of the most astounding IT stories of the week comes courtesy of a computer technician from the Alaska Department of Revenue who wiped out a disc drive containing an account worth US$38 billion, ...

At the Railtex exhibition, Artesyn Embedded Technologies will showcase its ControlSafe™ Platform, one of the first embedded computing systems to use commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) components to ...

For automotive electronic stability control, rollover detection, and pitch detection applications, Analog Devices, Inc today introduced the ADXRS800 iMEMS(R) gyroscope, featuring a patented ...

Should we have faith in our elections? NBC News and MSNBC national political correspondent Steve Kornacki — the man in the khakis who stands in front of the big map and breaks down the results on ...

Iterators in Java typically expect exclusive access to the data structure they loop through. If another thread tries to modify a collection of objects while an ...

The U.S. nuclear navy, created by Admiral Hyman Rickover, was an astonishing bureaucratic and cultural revolution in modern military history. Rickover’s belief in superior engineering, continuous ...