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Turing Awardees Pay Tribute to
The Turing Centenary Celebration featured the first gathering, in one place, of 33 of the 39 living ACM A.M. Turing Award laureates.
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Digital Domain Grapples With Fur, Feathers
You may not have heard of the special-effects studio Digital Domain, but you've probably seen their work. They sank the Titanic for James Cameron; they aged Brad...
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Iran Asks For Critiquing Western Computer Games
Iran's culture minister on Saturday called for a precise analysis and critique of western computer games to reveal the underlying goals pursued by developing such...
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Statistics nmask Phony Online Reviews
Searching for hotels in cities they've never visited, people often turn to customer-written reviews on websites such as TripAdvisor. But how do they know those...
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Finalists in Microsoft's $250k Contest Take on 'most-Pressing' Exploit Tactic
Microsoft announced that each of the three finalists in its $250,000 BlueHat Prize security contest came up with different solutions for blocking return-oriented...
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Department of Energy Creates Online-Learning Platform for Technical Training
The U.S. Department of Energy has unveiled the National Training and Education Resource, an open source online learning platform to facilitate technical training...
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Confusion Can Be Beneficial For Learning: Study
Confusion when learning can be beneficial if it is properly induced, effectively regulated, and ultimately resolved, according to a University of Notre Dame study...
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Three Questions For Patti Maes
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher Patti Maes recently spoke with Technology Review to discuss the future of mobile technology.
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For Minority College Students, STEM Degrees Pay Big
USC researchers recently completed a study showing that minority college students who major in STEM fields earn at least 25 percent more than students who study...
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What Nasa's Next Mars Rover Will Discover
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory is on its way. In a little more than a month, the 1-ton rover, whichlaunched in November, will descend to the Martian surface.
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U.s. Military Hunts For Safe Smartphones For Soldiers
The military has long needed computers that are tough enough on the outside to withstand the rough and tumble of the battlefield. Now, with the proliferation of...
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Researchers Amplify Variations in Video, Making the Invisible Visible
At this summer's Siggraph—the premier computer-graphics conference—researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory will present new...
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Infinite-Capacity Wireless Vortex Beams Carry 2.5 Terabits Per Second
American and Israeli researchers have used twisted, vortex beams to transmit data at 2.5 terabits per second. As far as we can discern, this is the fastest wireless...
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What, Exactly, Is a Supercomputer?
It's official: The United States is home to the world's fastest supercomputer. But what exactly are supercomputers and why should we care about them? I decidedLawrence...
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Microsoft's Research Boss Celebrates Legacy of Alan Turing
What does Alan Turing mean to Microsoft and the rest of the modern tech world? Rick Rashid can tell you.
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Exascale Computing: The View From Argonne
In an interview, U.S. Argonne National Laboratory directors Rick Stevens, Michael Papka, and Marc Snir contextualize the challenges and advantages of developing...
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Intel Reveals Neuromorphic Chip Design
The brain is the most extraordinary of computing machines. It carries out tasks as a matter of routine that would fry the circuits of the most powerful supercomputers...
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P2p Comes to the Rescue of Internet Video
VTT Technical Research Center of Finland researchers, working with a consortium of 20 industrial partners on the P2P-Next project, have developed NextShare, an...
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niversity of Waterloo Engineers nveil Two-Way Wireless Breakthrough
University of Waterloo engineering researchers have developed technology that enables wireless signals to be simultaneously sent and received on a single radio...
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