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Nist Data Sets Enable Technical Basis For High-Rise Evacuation Planning
Researchers at NIST are stepping up the pace for designing safer building evacuations by releasing large, numerical datasets tracking the movement of people on...
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ARP Awards Recognize Outstanding Research and Science Parks
The Association of University Research Parks (AURP) announces their 2010 Annual Awards of Excellence and names Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center in Blacksburg...
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New Approach to Quantum Computing Devised in the U.K.
A team of expert led by physicists from the University of Bristol announced the development of a new approach to conducting quantum computing. The team believes...
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Hrp-4 Robot Can Strike a Pose, Pour Drinks
Japan has added another soldier to its humanoid robot army. The HRP-4 is the latest edition in the state-backed humanoid project.
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Three Teams Share $10 Million Purse in Automotive X Prize Competition
Three teams were awarded a share of the $10 million purse in the Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE for Super Fuel-Efficient Vehicles.
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Obama Expands 'educate to Innovate' Campaign to Improve STEM Education
President Barack Obama announced Thursday (September 16) the launch of Change the Equation, a CEO-led effort to dramatically improve science, technology, engineering...
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Archer Fish Can See Like Mammals
Computer scientists at Ben Gurion University of the Negev trained archer fish to spit at images of insects on a liquid crystal display screen, then used images...
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European Partnership Funds Research Toward Robot Aides for the Elderly
A team of researchers from 20 European states, the European Union, and several private enterprises recently launched a project aimed at developing robots capable...
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Commissioner Kroes Wants to Include Developing Countries in Internet Governance
European Union digital agenda commissioner Neelie Kroes wants countries with emerging economies to have more say in Internet governance since they will soon have...
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NC State Receives Grant To Study Artificial Intelligence In The Classroom
North Carolina State University recently received a four-year, $3.5 million grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation to explore using artificial intelligence...
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Researchers Team Up With Schoolteachers on Web-Based Instruction System
A $2.5 million grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation to Florida State University will fund the creation of an electronic performance support system...
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Nist Finalizes Initial Set of Smart Grid Cyber Security Guidelines
NIST has issued its first Guidelines for Smart Grid Cyber Security, and additional information for crafting strategies to protect the modernizing power grid from...
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Peripheral Developers Are Key Contributors to Open-Source Projects, Study Finds
An information systems researcher at the University of Arkansas has found that peripheral developers outside the core development team make significant contributions...
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Home's Electrical Wiring Acts as Antenna to Receive Low-Power Sensor Data
Using a home's electrical wiring as a giant copper antenna enables extremely low-power wireless sensors that run for decades on a single watch battery. The device...
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A Professor
At this time of year, students are buying textbooks and looking for ways to avoid reading them.
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Pi record Smashed As Team Finds Two-Quadrillionth Digit
A researcher has calculated the 2,000,000,000,000,000th digit of pi—and a few digits either side of it.
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Intel Will Teach Gadgets to Learn About You
Rather than teach your gadgets what to do, Intel researchers say that in the not-too-distant future they will learn about you on their own. That means where you...
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Nano-Based Marker Designed to Thwart Counterfeit Products
Nanotechnology advances at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock have been licensed to two new businesses that will market a solution to a $600 billion global...
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Officials In The Dark About Voting Machine Glitches
Problems with voting machines are still popping up 10 years after the controversial presidential vote in Florida.
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