17-Year-Old Wins Google Science Fair With Cloud-Based Artificial Neural Network for Breast Cancer Diagnosis
What were you doing when you were in high school? Brittany Wenger is creating a better way to diagnose breast cancer. The 17-year-old from Lakewood Ranch, FL, took home the grand prize in this year’s Google Science Fair for her “Global Neural Network Cloud Service for Breast Cancer.” Her project has shown a 99.1% success rate in identifying malignant tumors and could eventually...
Google CEO: Android Will Remain Open
Following Google's purchase of smartphone and tablet maker Motorola Mobility this past August, there was worry that the company would make its popular Android operating system closed-source. Those fears were put to rest today in a letter from Google CEO Larry Page. "Android was built as an open ecosystem, and we have no plans to change that," he wrote in the 2012 CEO...
Manufacturers Pay Patent Fees for Android
Late last year, MED featured an article by Logic PD's Alan Cohen arguing that “Android is the best operating system for many medical applications." Android, Cohen said, “aims to bring to the Linux/free software world the same out-of-the-box, ease-of-use found in Windows CE,” a full-featured operating system for which royalties must be paid. Google does not charge a...
Google Exec Insists Android Will Stay Open-Source
  Fans of Android (and people interested in the possible medical applications for the operating system) will want to take note of this interesting post in Wired.com’s GadgetLab blog detailing Google’s attempts to assure the public that the famously open OS will, indeed, remain open.   The new version of Android (which is deliciously known as Honeycomb) still has not been...