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New Center Aims to Dramatically Lower Barrier to Making Silicon Photonic Chips
The University of Washington has launched a new program, co-funded by Intel Corp., that aims to make it dramatically easier and cheaper to manufacture silicon chips...
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Microsoft Offers Developers Access to Technical Computing Projects
Microsoft has provided developers with a resource for accessing early releases of software from its Technical Computing Initiative. TC Labs, which is part of the...
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App Turns iPhone into a Smarter Camera
Developers use clever tricks to overcome the shortcomings of smart-phone cameras.
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Hidden Fractals Suggest Answer to Ancient Math Problem
Researchers have found a fractal pattern underlying everyday math. In the process, they’ve discovered a way to calculate partition numbers, a challenge that’s...
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'radical Redesign' rged For Future Computers
University of Maryland professor Uzi Vishkin believes that computer architecture needs to be redesigned in order to effectively use multicore processors.
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Stanford and Intel Test the Boundaries of Visual Computing
Researchers from Intel and Stanford University are collaborating on a five-year, $10 million project to advance the field of visual computing. Intel is funding...
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European Project Keeps Personal Details Private
The European Union recently launched the ABC4Trust project, which will use encryption technology developed by IBM Research, academic institutions, Microsoft, and...
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Robots Get Ready For Mass Markets
The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology's Laboratory of Intelligent Systems and a group of laboratories are collaborating to launch the National Center of Competence...
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Intel
Intel Corp. surprised investors Monday with news that it has found a design flaw found in a support chip that works with its ballyhooed new chip, code-named Sandy...
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Intel Spreads Its niversity Research Bets
Computing in general is increasingly applying the old engineering dictum, divide and conquer. Look at the engines behind cloud computing—vast, distributed armies...
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Future Phone Networks to se Miniature Base Stations
University of York researchers are working on the BuNGee project, which is developing a network infrastructure to support future mobile devices that can receive...
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Hardware, Software Advances Help Protect Operating Systems From Attack
North Carolina State University researchers have developed a system that utilizes hardware and software to restore an operating system if it is attacked. The focus...
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ACM Fellows Honored
Forty-one men and women are inducted as 2010 ACM Fellows.
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ACM Launches New Digital Library
More than 50 years of computing literature is augmented, streamlined, and joined to powerful new tools for retrieval and analysis.
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Following the Crowd
Crowdsourcing is based on a simple but powerful concept: Virtually anyone has the potential to plug in valuable information.
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Maurice Wilkes: The Last Pioneer
Computer science has lost not only a great scientist, but an important link to the electronic computing revolution that took place in the 1940s.
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Information Theory After Shannon
Purdue University's Science of Information Center seeks new principles to answer the question 'What is information?'
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Chipping Away at Greenhouse Gases
Power-saving processor algorithms have the potential to create significant energy and cost savings.
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Researchers Build Flying Robotic 'tree Helicopter'
University of Maryland researchers have developed a robotic flying device based on samaras — single-winged seeds that are released by trees. The researchers built...
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