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Fruit Fly Nervous System Provides Insight to Computer Network Problem
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Fruit Fly Nervous System Provides Insight to Computer Network Problem

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon and Tel Aviv universities are drawing on inspiration from a fruit fly's nervous system to develop models for distributed computer...

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Eu Project to Facilitate Collaboration in Data-Intensive Environments

The European Union's Dicode project is using high-performance computing technologies and data processing methods to facilitate decision making in data-intensive...

Tv Broadcasters Resist FCC Proposal to Surrender More Airwaves
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Tv Broadcasters Resist FCC Proposal to Surrender More Airwaves

Many broadcasters are already worried about declining viewers, and now they say the government wants to take away something more: the airwaves themselves.

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Ncsu Researchers Develop 'unified' Computer Memory Device

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a double floating-gate field effect transistor, a "unified" device which can perform both volatile...

Ipad Animation Helps Assess Mobility in Elderly
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Ipad Animation Helps Assess Mobility in Elderly

Two professors at Wake Forest University have developed the Mobility Assessment Tool which uses an iPad and video animation to assess the physical mobility of older...

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First Silicon Entanglement Will Aid Quantum Computing

The state of entanglement has been created in silicon for the first time. The feat could lead to quantum computers made like ordinary computer chips.

In New Military, Data Overload Can Be Deadly
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In New Military, Data Overload Can Be Deadly

When military investigators looked into an attack by American helicopters last February that left 23 Afghan civilians dead, they found that the operator of a ...

Researchers Helping Pentagon Build Mind-Controlled Prosthetics
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Researchers Helping Pentagon Build Mind-Controlled Prosthetics

A U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency-funded multi-institution research project aims to develop mind-controlled prosthetic devices that will not break...

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Euclid Brings New Computing Capabilities to UW-Madison Researchers

With a peak performance of about 19 teraflops, the University of Wisconsin-Madison's new computing resource, the Euclid cluster, can run large-scale computing projects...

Israel Tests on Worm Called Crucial in Iran Nuclear Delay
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Israel Tests on Worm Called Crucial in Iran Nuclear Delay

The Dimona complex in the Negev desert is famous as the heavily guarded heart of Israel’s never-acknowledged nuclear arms program, where neat rows of factories...

Wolfram Education Apps Raise Teaching Dilemma
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Wolfram Education Apps Raise Teaching Dilemma

Wolfram Research, a software company with deep mathematical and scientific expertise, is expanding to the broad education market with a range of mobile apps.

Seeking the World's Best Postdocs
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Seeking the World's Best Postdocs

Society in Science, the unique worldwide fellowship for outstanding postdoctoral researchers, is using video, print, and online advertising to spread the word about...

Google's Artificial Intelligence Translates Poetry
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Google's Artificial Intelligence Translates Poetry

Researchers at Google are tackling what they call one of the most difficult challenges in artificial intelligence.

Eight Jfk News Conferences Now Available Online in Digital Format
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Eight Jfk News Conferences Now Available Online in Digital Format

Using audio tapes preserved by the University of North Dakota, eight John F. Kennedy news conferences from the early '60s have been digitized and placed online....

Solid-State Memories Pave the Way to Practical Quantum Communication
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Solid-State Memories Pave the Way to Practical Quantum Communication

Two groups of physicists have managed to shift the quantum entanglement between two photons onto an entangled state between one photon and a quantum memor.

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10 New Open Source Projects to Watch

Black Duck Software recently announced its 2010 open-source Rookies of the Year list. It says the top open source project is Diaspora, a social network that began...

Ut Professor Leads World Effort in Developing Next Generation of Supercomputers
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Ut Professor Leads World Effort in Developing Next Generation of Supercomputers

University of Tennessee, Knoxville's Jack Dongarra says that exascale supercomputers are needed to solve problems in the economy, engineering, and manufacturing...

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International Cybersecurity Treaty Might Not Be Achievable, Report Says

An international pact to establish cybersecurity regulations may be unworkable, according to an EastWest Institute report. "Many states are not ready for [a global...

Coiled Nanowires May Hold Key to Stretchable Electronics
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Coiled Nanowires May Hold Key to Stretchable Electronics

North Carolina State University researchers have created coils of silicon nanowire on a substrate that can be stretched to more than twice their size, a development...

Project Euclid's Mathjax Displays 'beautiful Math' Online
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Project Euclid's Mathjax Displays 'beautiful Math' Online

Project Euclid, an online information community for mathematicians, has implemented MathJax, new technology that presents math attractively and reliably on the...
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