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Sam Madden, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), delivered...

Future Internet Architecture: Content-Centric Networking
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Future Internet Architecture: Content-Centric Networking

Next month, a little more than a year after the National Science Foundation (NSF) launched the Future Internet Architecture (FIA) program,

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As part of a multi-year cognitive computing initiative

NSF Launches Sustainability Research Networks Competition
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NSF Launches Sustainability Research Networks Competition

Yesterday, the National Science Foundation (NSF)

AP, Google To Award
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AP, Google To Award

The Associated Press and Google have teamed up to create

NIH Calling for
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NIH Calling for

Last week, the National Institutes of Health

A Robot That Bakes Cookies
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A Robot That Bakes Cookies

Ever tried baking — yes, baking — and found it challenging? Well, try teaching it to a robot. That’s just what a group of researchers at MIT’s Computer Science...

The Turing Lecture
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The Turing Lecture

Leslie Valiant, the

Engaging in Public Service
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Engaging in Public Service

The three men in the image on the right have something in common: Rush Holt, who

UPDATE: Watson
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UPDATE: Watson

A couple months ago, I blogged about David Ferrucci’s excellent

Seeking Ideas for
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Seeking Ideas for

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has just announced a Request for Ideas (RFI) about Data Intensive Science: The increasing volume and complexity of scientific...

PCAST Sustainability Report Emphasizes
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PCAST Sustainability Report Emphasizes

The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) released a report titled Sustaining Environmental Capital: Protecting Society and Economy,

DARPA: Automated Program Analysis for Cybersecurity
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DARPA: Automated Program Analysis for Cybersecurity

Fresh on the heels of announcing a call for social media research, DARPA’s Information Innovation Office (I2O) has issued a solicitation for “innovative research...

NSF Awards CS-Led Health, Robotics Research Center
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NSF Awards CS-Led Health, Robotics Research Center

Yesterday, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a new five-year, $18.5 million Engineering Research Center (ERC) that will pursue interdisciplinary research...

20 Years Later,
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20 Years Later,

In a Comment in the Aug. 4 issue of Nature — coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the public release of the World Wide Web –

From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

(This post has been updated.) David Ferrucci, the lead researcher for IBM’s Watson, was recently selected by Slate Magazine as one of “five American technology...

Why Democracy Needs Computer Science Education
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Why Democracy Needs Computer Science Education

The following is a special contribution to this blog from Henry Kautz, Chair of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Rochester. His research...

From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

One of mankind’s oldest dreams is to fly like a bird. And now, thanks to a team of German researchers, we’ve moved one step closer with

Gigabit in the Home
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Gigabit in the Home

We’ve covered the US Ignite and Gig.U initiatives on this blog over the course of the past few months, and now we’ve been pointed to a great video that explains...

DoD Enters National Robotics Initiative
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DoD Enters National Robotics Initiative

Back in mid-June, we noted the President’s announcement of a $70 million National Robotics Initiative (NRI) — a multi-agency investment spanning the NSF, NIH, NASA...
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