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Connected Traffic System For Emergency Responders Is Demonstrated
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Connected Traffic System For Emergency Responders Is Demonstrated

A prototype "smart drive" connected traffic system developed by University of Arizona and Maricopa County engineers cleared red light signals and warned emergency...

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Harvard and MIT Team ­p to Offer Free Online Courses

In what is shaping up as an academic Battle of the Titans—one that offers vast new learning opportunities for students around the world—Harvard and MIT on Wednesday...

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Microsoft's New Lab Hunts For Value in User Data

A new research lab that opens in New York today brings together researchers studying such questions as how to identify the most influential users of a social network...

MIT and Harvard Announce edX Online Education Platform
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MIT and Harvard Announce edX Online Education Platform

Harvard University and MIT have announced edX, an online education partnership intended to enhance campus-based teaching and learning and to build a global community...

Synchrotron Experiment Brings Together Scientists and Leading-Edge Infrastructure
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Synchrotron Experiment Brings Together Scientists and Leading-Edge Infrastructure

Use of advanced Internet technology to bring scientists and leading-edge research infrastructure together half a world apart was recently demonstrated between...

Mitx: What the Students Think
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Mitx: What the Students Think

An international virtual community is growing up around 6.002x, or "Circuits and Electronics," the initial course offering of MIT's online educational initiative...

Engineers Load 'smart' Bridge with Damage-Detection Gauges
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Engineers Load 'smart' Bridge with Damage-Detection Gauges

Iowa State University engineers are working with the Iowa Department of Transportation to develop and test a comprehensive system to monitor the stresses, strains...

Researchers Work to Make Future Smart Grid Safe and Secure
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Researchers Work to Make Future Smart Grid Safe and Secure

Just as malicious Internet users try to spread harmful viruses through computer networks, attackers on the future power network could cause outages and other harmful...

What's a 'computer Vision Specialist' and Why Does Apple Need One?
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What's a 'computer Vision Specialist' and Why Does Apple Need One?

When Apple posted a job listing last week for a "Computer Vision specialist," the tech-obsessed echo chamber began speculating which Apple product line would be...

Going With the Flow: Google's Secret Switch to the Next Wave of Networking
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Going With the Flow: Google's Secret Switch to the Next Wave of Networking

In early 1999, an associate computer science professor at UC Santa Barbara climbed the steps to the second floor headquarters of a small startup in Palo Alto, and...

New Research Could Mean Cellphones That Can See Through Walls
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New Research Could Mean Cellphones That Can See Through Walls

A team of researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas say that a combination of terahertz electromagnetic communications and CMOS microchip technology could...

Georgia Tech Puts Education's Future to the Test with TechBurst
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Georgia Tech Puts Education's Future to the Test with TechBurst

Georgia Tech's Center for 21st Century Universities is examining how to incorporate disruptive technologies into the traditional university, and involved students...

Survey Finds Most Wikipedia Entries Contain Factual Errors
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Survey Finds Most Wikipedia Entries Contain Factual Errors

Sixty percent of Wikipedia articles about companies contain factual errors. But when public relations professionals try to correct them the rules often get in the...

Iraq Emerges From Isolation as Telecommunications Hub
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Iraq Emerges From Isolation as Telecommunications Hub

Iraq, cut off from decades of technological progress because of dictatorship, sanctions and wars, recently took a big step out of isolation and into the digital...

Georgia Tech's Center for 21st Century Universities Encourages Online Education
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Georgia Tech's Center for 21st Century Universities Encourages Online Education

Colleges around the world will have to change their business and credentialing models to adapt to emerging technology if they want to maintain their importance...

Israel's Rocket-Hunting Ace Got His Start Playing Warcraft
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Israel's Rocket-Hunting Ace Got His Start Playing Warcraft

While many of the boys in Idan Yahya's high school class were buffing up and preparing themselves for selection into elite combat units, this gawky teenager was...

Move Over, Eye Candy. Here Comes the Business Tech Boom
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Move Over, Eye Candy. Here Comes the Business Tech Boom

Sometimes an IPO is more than just another IPO, and that's the case with Palo Alto Networks, which has just filed to go public.

Pirates, Beware: Navy's Smart Robocopters Will Spy You in the Crowd
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Pirates, Beware: Navy's Smart Robocopters Will Spy You in the Crowd

The Office of Naval Research will begin testing an unmanned robotic helicopter this summer equipped with high-definition cameras, mid-wave infrared sensors, and...

The Enemy Within
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The Enemy Within

Companies' IT staffs often hold the keys to the castle. And that's the problem.

Google's Project Glass Engineers: Who Are They?
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Google's Project Glass Engineers: Who Are They?

Google’s Project Glass has put new focus on Google X, the lab at the tech giant where engineers work to develop the next big thing.
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