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Mimic-Bots Learn to Do As We Do
Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in South Korea have developed a robotic system that responds to the actions of the person...
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How New COMPETES Science Law Broadens NSF Education Programs
The reauthorization of the America COMPETES Act outlines program changes designed to guarantee that all the elements of the U.S. National Science Foundation are...
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CES: Smart Grid Outshines Green Tech at CES
Consumer electronics companies used to tout the energy efficiency of individual gadgets. Now many want to make your whole house more efficient.
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Virtual Reality Maps
Images from public photo-sharing sites like Flickr and Google are being used by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington...
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European Exascale Project Drives Toward Next Supercomputing Milestone
The goal of the European Exascale Software Initiative (EESI) is to help effect the migration from petascale to exascale systems over the next 10 years by bringing...
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Better Benchmarking For Supercomputers
Many computer scientists say the High-Performance Linpack test is not the best performance measurement for the world's top supercomputers. The new Graph500 benchmark...
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Iit-M to Aid Research on Innovative Projects
IIT-Madras will establish an interdisciplinary center of excellence for facilitating research on embedded systems, very large scale integration design, and enabling...
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2011: The Year of the Personal Robot?
Willow Garage's PR2 personal robot platform, released last year, could lead to new advances in robotic technology. Georgia Tech professor Charles Kemp. Kemp and...
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Biological Evolution Gives Cues to Stronger Computer Software
The universities of Virginia and New Mexico recently received a $3.2 million U.S. DARPA grant to develop more resilient software systems based on the biological...
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Why Are Health Data Leaking Online? Bad Software, Study Says
A recent Dartmouth College study found that sensitive health care data is being leaked online through peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing services. In addition, the...
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Keeping Women in Science on a Tenure Track
More women are obtaining Ph.D.s in science than ever before, but those women—largely because of pressures from having a family—are far more likely than their...
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Hackers Find New Way to Cheat on Wall Street
High-frequency trading networks, which complete stock market transactions in microseconds, are vulnerable to manipulation by hackers who can inject tiny amounts...
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The New Speed of Money, Reshaping Markets
A substantial part of all stock trading in the United States takes place in a warehouse in a nondescript business park just off the New Jersey Turnpike.
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And Then There Were Five: Nist Names Sha-3 Crypto Competition Finalists
Out of the original 64, there now are five candidates left in the ongoing multi-year competition overseen by NIST to create the next 'hash' algorithm to protect...
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Reauthorization of Competes Act Brings Changes to Nist
President Obama on Tuesday (Jan. 4) signed the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010, which provides several important updates to NIST funding, programs...
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Make Way for Mathematical Matter
We already have solid, liquid, gas, plasma and Bose-Einstein condensate. Now it seems we may be on the verge of discovering a whole host of new forms of matter...
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IBM's Jeopardy Strategy: Divide and Conquer
When it comes tackling a challenge as tough as answering a human question, the best computational approach may be to break the job down into multiple parts and...
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The Power of 'convergence'
In white paper, MIT scientists discuss potential for revolutionary advances in biomedicine and other fields.
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Car Theft by Antenna
A method for breaking into and stealing cars that have keyless entry and starting systems has been found by ETH Zurich researchers, who were able to gain entry...
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