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Moshe Y. Vardi, 2011 Harry H. Goode Memorial Award Recipient
"For fundamental and lasting contributions to the development of logic as a unifying foundational framework and a tool for modeling computational systems."
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At Particle Lab, a Tantalizing Glimpse Has Physicists Holding Their Breaths
Physicists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory are planning to announce Wednesday that they have found a suspicious bump in their data that could be...
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sing Adjacent Phone Antennas Could Improve Data Transfer
University of Bristol researchers are studying multiple-input multiple-output technology, which uses several antennas to transmit and receive data, in order to...
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Who Is Epsilon and Why Does It Have My Data?
If you didn't get an email warning this week that your name and email address were part of a database that was breached, consider yourself lucky, and unique.
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Secure, Synchronized, Social Tv
Network coding is an innovative new approach to network design that promises much more efficient use of bandwidth, and MIT researchers have made seminal contributions...
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More Pupils Are Learning Online, Fueling Debate on Quality
Jack London was the subject in Daterrius Hamilton’s online English 3 course. In a high school classroom packed with computers, he read a brief biography of London...
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Being John Malkovich: Personal Control of Individual Brain Cells
In philosophy of mind, a "cerebroscope" is a fictitious device, a brain-computer interface in today's language, which reads out the content of somebody's brain...
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'predator' Smart Camera Locks Onto, Tracks Anything
Zdenek Kalal’s Predator object-tracking software is almost uncanny. Show anything to its all-seeing camera eye, and it will quickly learn to recognize it and...
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How Natural Disasters and Political nrest Affect the Internet
Northwestern University researchers have developed software that analyzes how natural disasters and political upheaval affect the Internet.
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Software Builds 3-D Models From Search Results
University of North Carolina researchers have developed software that can create 3D models of landmarks and geographical locations using 2D photos from online photo...
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The Transition From Search to Social Media: the Future of Information Networks
Social Web sites are replacing search engines through their ability to identify the information that people pay attention to, which mirrors a basic axiom about...
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How the University of Utah Turns Academic Research Into Successful Startups
The University of Utah ranks first in the U.S. in terms of creating startups based upon campus research. Here are four reasons for its great success.
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Promoting Science, and Google, to Students
Google is synonymous with "search engine," and now, for students, it wants to be synonymous with "science."
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Quantum Trickery Could Lead to Stealth Radar
Stealthy radar systems and the ability to transmit large amounts of data over long distances are a step closer thanks to a technique that could improve the efficiency...
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Google Goes Shopping For Patents
Google has made a $900m bid for the patent portfolio of Nortel Networks, the bankrupt Canadian telecom equipment maker. The patents could help arm it against...
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Microsoft Researchers Tout Low-Cost, Programmable Prototype Data Center Switch
Microsoft researchers are developing ServerSwitch, a programmable, low-cost switching chip that could supplement cloud and other network-based services.
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University Scientists Reach Beyond the Clouds With a Mobile Phone App to Explore the Outer Atmosphere
A mobile phone served as the on-board data logger, payload tracker, and communications relay during a test flight of the Atmospheric Science Through Robotic Aircraft...
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Store Data in Your Body Without Cyborg Modification
MIT's Pranav Mistry has developed Sparsh, a system that enables users to transfer files from one device to another by simply touching their screens.
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New Tool Makes Programs More Efficient Without Sacrificing Safety Functions
North Carolina State University researchers have developed software that helps programs run more efficiently on multicore chips without sacrificing safety features...
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