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Microsoft Seeks to Make Sense of What You Didn't Say
Scientists at Microsoft and the International Computer Science Institute, which is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley, are researching how to...
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Lack of Minority Representation in Science and Engineering Endangering .s. Economic Health
Many of the "precious few" minority students pursuing science, technology, engineering, or mathematics degrees are either dropping out or changing majors, says...
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Deborah Estrin Calls For CS Research on Sustainability
The old adage, “You can’t manage what you can’t measure,” applies to how both networking and sensor technology can help address problems of sustainability, says...
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Far from Silicon Valley, Tech Industry Finds an Oracle
Anand Shimpi is one of the most influential tech industry figures you've never heard of.
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The Frightening Things You Hear at a Black Hat Conference
Here is a look at some of the highlights and scarier happenings taking place at the annual Black Hat hacker conference in Las Vegas last week.
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Samsung Case Is a Proxy For Google
When Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. face off in a high-stakes patent trial Monday, there will be another elephant in the room: Google Inc.
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An App That Could Stop Traffic
German researchers have developed Greenway, a Windows phone application designed to help people avoid traffic jams and get drivers from one point to another in...
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Crowd Sourcing Comes to Astronomy
Astronomers have reconstructed the orbit of the Holmes comet, which flew by Earth in 2007, using photos from the Internet.
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Computers Not Yet Able to nderstand Human Speech
Cornell University professor Lillian Lee discusses the progress in natural language processing and machine learning and the challenges that lie ahead.
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Identifying Trending Stories on Twitter and Optimal Temperature For Data Center Computers
UTSC professor Bianca Schroeder and students Nosayba El-Sayed, Ioan Stefanovici, George Amvrosiadis, and Andy A. Hwang received a best paper award at the recent...
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Tagging and Tracking Espionage Botnets
A security researcher who's spent 18 months cataloging and tracking malicious software that was developed and deployed specifically for spying on governments, activists...
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Curiosity Rover on Track For Early August Landing
Eight days before reaching Mars, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft performed a flight-path adjustment scheduled more than nine months ago.
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Apple v. Samsung: 5 Surprising Reveals in Latest Court Documents
The lawyers behind the upcoming Apple v. Samsung trial have been hard at work filing docket after docket as their court battle looms closer, and many of those dockets...
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Meet 'rakshasa,' The Malware Infection Designed To Be ndetectable And Incurable
Malicious software, like all software, gets smarter all the time. In recent years it’s learned to destroy physical infrastructure, install itself through Microsoft...
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Software: The New Networking Paradigm
VMware's planned acquisition of Nicra for $1.25 billion represents the evolution of networking beyond the hardware-dominated point of view that has sustained the...
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At Getty Museum, Revelations of Art via Tech
Walking through gallery after gallery of classical European paintings, sculptures, and other antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum here, it's easy to get lost...
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Device Helps Eyes Do the Write Thing
French National Center for Scientific Research director Jean Lorenceau has developed a device that enables users to write with their eyes in cursive script on a...
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So, Who Really Did Invent the Internet?
The Wall Street Journal's Gordon Crovitz recently reopened the debate about who invented the Internet, arguing that giving the U.S. government credit is an "urban...
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Chasing Science as a Service
TACC has developed the A Grid and Virtualized Environment advanced programming interface, which aims to extend the U.S.'s advanced computing resources to a much...
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