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Supercomputing the Transition from Ordinary to Extraordinary Forms of Matter
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Supercomputing the Transition from Ordinary to Extraordinary Forms of Matter

Calculations plus experimental data help map the nuclear phase diagram, offering insight into a transition that mimics the formation of visible matter in the universe...

On the Road to Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing
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On the Road to Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing

An international collaboration of researchers at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source has reported the first demonstration of high-temperature superconductivity...

The Itunes of Higher Education
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The Itunes of Higher Education

It's nearly impossible to get into MIT, very expensive to enroll there, and exceedingly hard to graduate, which are some of the reasons why MIT degrees are so coveted...

Improving the Big Data Toolkit
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Improving the Big Data Toolkit

Open source software tends to march into the marketplace step by step, a quiet but steady strategy compared with the grand marketing events of the commercial software...

Teaching Computers to See–by Learning to See Like Computers
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Teaching Computers to See–by Learning to See Like Computers

By translating images into the language spoken by object-recognition systems, then translating them back, researchers hope to explain the recognition systems'...

Google vs. Death
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Google vs. Death

In person, it can be a little hard to hear Larry Page.

Nsf Announces New 'expeditions in Computing' Awards
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Nsf Announces New 'expeditions in Computing' Awards

The U.S. National Science Foundation will provide $10 million over the next five years to fundamental research projects on molecular programming and computer vision...

Nasa's Asteroid-In-A-Bag Recipe
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Nasa's Asteroid-In-A-Bag Recipe

"It’s not as crazy as it seemed at the beginning," Charles Elachi, the director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told the Washington Post, about NASA's latest...

Harvey's Injury Shows Pitchers Have a Speed Limit
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Harvey's Injury Shows Pitchers Have a Speed Limit

Glenn Fleisig's rather unusual laboratory has a pitcher's mound and a home plate, and when he rigs people up to throw a baseball, their motion is analyzed with...

Emotional Attachment to Robots Could Affect Outcome on Battlefield
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Emotional Attachment to Robots Could Affect Outcome on Battlefield

Researchers find that people sometimes treat robots like pets, friends, or as an extension of themselves, which raises questions about how a soldier's attachment...

Machine Language: How Siri Found Its Voice
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Machine Language: How Siri Found Its Voice

GM Voices is nestled on a rolling, leafy road in Alpharetta, Georgia, an affluent suburb of Atlanta.

Forget Moocs
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Forget Moocs

For a year or two there, free online classes seemed like they just might be the future of higher education.

Open Source Career Opportunities Continue to Abound
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Open Source Career Opportunities Continue to Abound

Despite an uncertain environment for some IT hiring, maturing technologies such as the cloud, big data, software-as-a-service, and mobile help make open source...

Cryptographers Have an Ethics Problem
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Cryptographers Have an Ethics Problem

Last week, I visited the MIT computer science department looking for a very famous cryptographer.

Researchers Create Accurate Computer Model of Rna Tetraloop
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Researchers Create Accurate Computer Model of Rna Tetraloop

A computational model developed by researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is the first to accurately simulate the complex twists of a short sequence...

The Skies. The Limits.
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The Skies. The Limits.

Long ago, in a dreamier era, space stations were imagined as portals to the heavens.

Pictures Make Sense of Big Data
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Pictures Make Sense of Big Data

Most people have trouble recalling strings of numbers that are longer than their phone numbers. So how do we begin to comprehend a hundred rows of data, let alone...

Invention Jet Prints Nanostructures with Self-Assembling Material
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Invention Jet Prints Nanostructures with Self-Assembling Material

A multi-institutional team of engineers has developed a new approach to the fabrication of nanostructures for the semiconductor and magnetic storage industries...

Security Tech Firms Hit Jackpot in Asia Casino Boom
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Security Tech Firms Hit Jackpot in Asia Casino Boom

Asia's new mega-casinos are driving sales and innovation in advanced surveillance technology, from chips with built-in radio transmitters to high-definition, multi...

Taiwan Chip Industry Powers the Tech World, but Struggles For Status
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Taiwan Chip Industry Powers the Tech World, but Struggles For Status

Tien Wu, chief operating officer of Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, has a problem: the brightest young people in Taiwan do not want to work in the island’s...
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