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Fast, Accurate Detection of 100,000 Object Classes on a Single Machine
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Fast, Accurate Detection of 100,000 Object Classes on a Single Machine

Humans can distinguish among approximately 10,000 relatively high-level visual categories, but we can discriminate among a much larger set of visual stimuli referred...

Congressional Panels Dump on STEM Reshuffling Plan
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Congressional Panels Dump on STEM Reshuffling Plan

Several congressional panels have rejected the Obama administration's plan to significantly realign the federal government's $3-billion annual budget for programs...

Education Online: The Virtual Lab
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Education Online: The Virtual Lab

The academic world is in upheaval over MOOCs: massive open online courses that make university lectures available to tens of thousands of students at a time.

Bill Gates on the Future of Education, Programming, and Just About Everything Else
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Bill Gates on the Future of Education, Programming, and Just About Everything Else

At Microsoft's recent Faculty Summit, Bill Gates expressed his views on a range of topics, including education, patents, computer science, and machine learning....

Faster Than the Speed of Light?
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Faster Than the Speed of Light?

Beyond the security gate at the Johnson Space Center’s 1960s-era campus here, inside a two-story glass and concrete building with winding corridors, there is a...

Enabling Time Travel For the Scholarly Web
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Enabling Time Travel For the Scholarly Web

An international team of information scientists has begun a study to investigate and prevent "reference rot," the dead hyperlinks that fail to connect to 30 percent...

Astronomer Uses Kepler Telescope's Data in Hunt For Spacecraft from Other Worlds
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Astronomer Uses Kepler Telescope's Data in Hunt For Spacecraft from Other Worlds

In the field of planet hunting, Geoff Marcy is a star. After all, the astronomer at the University of California at Berkeley found nearly three-quarters of the...

Your Creative, Open Hackathon Is Ripe For Legal Challenges
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Your Creative, Open Hackathon Is Ripe For Legal Challenges

NASA's Space Apps Challenge recently became the world's largest open hackathon, with over 8,000 participants spanning 44 countries.

Six Highest and Lowest Paid IT Jobs
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Six Highest and Lowest Paid IT Jobs

C-level titles top the list of highest paid IT jobs, while technical support positions dominate the low end of the pay scale, according to new salary data from...

Nsa Revelations Reframe Digital Life For Some
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Nsa Revelations Reframe Digital Life For Some

In Louisiana, the wife of a former soldier is scaling back on Facebook posts and considering unfriending old acquaintances, worried an innocuous joke or long-lost...

Where Do You Test a Tool Bound For Mars? Greenland
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Where Do You Test a Tool Bound For Mars? Greenland

Every morning this week, Justin Spring and Sean Yoon got up and drove down a bumpy dirt road. They piled their packs onto their backs and hiked 45 minutes up a...

Nasa Advanced Technology Concepts Selected For Study
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Nasa Advanced Technology Concepts Selected For Study

NASA has selected 12 proposals, including two from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., for study under Phase I of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts...

NWSC Named 'Green' Data Center of the Year
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NWSC Named 'Green' Data Center of the Year

The NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center has been named the 2013 'Green' Data Center of the Year at the inaugural Datacenter Dynamics North American Awards.

Rensselaer To Train U.S. Navy Officers in IT and Web Sciences
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Rensselaer To Train U.S. Navy Officers in IT and Web Sciences

The U.S. Navy is turning to the Information Technology and Web Science Program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to prepare a select group of U.S. Navy officers...

Sebastian Thrun on the Future of Learning
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Sebastian Thrun on the Future of Learning

Sebastian Thrun has worn many hats in the tech world: Stanford research professor, founder of Google's X Labs, where he oversaw the development of self-drivingUdacity...

Meet the Designer Behind Some of the Web’s Newest Killer Fonts
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Meet the Designer Behind Some of the Web’s Newest Killer Fonts

Thanks to newer browsers and greater bandwidth, there's been an explosion of new Web fonts—tens of thousands of them over the last decade.

The Demanding Off-Hour Escapes of China's High-Tech Workers
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The Demanding Off-Hour Escapes of China's High-Tech Workers

The hottest nightclub in this factory town is a neon-encrusted dive down the road from the industrial park where iPhones are made 24 hours a day.

Stretchable Conductors Pave Way for Elastic Electronics
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Stretchable Conductors Pave Way for Elastic Electronics

Networks of spherical nanoparticles embedded in elastic materials may make the best stretchy conductors yet, engineering researchers at the University of Michigan...

Eye-Tracking Could Outshine Passwords If Made ­ser-Friendly
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Eye-Tracking Could Outshine Passwords If Made ­ser-Friendly

University of Washington engineers found in a recent study that the user's experience could be key to creating an authentication system that doesn't rely on passwords...

New Apps Do Heavy Lifting During the Job Search
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New Apps Do Heavy Lifting During the Job Search

Finding a job is not easy but a range of smartphone and web apps are designed to customize employment searches and even provide information on the competition.
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