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Expert Gives Tips on Safeguarding Against Data Theft
Nick Feamster, assistant professor at Georgia Tech's College of Computing and researcher at the Georgia Tech Information Security Center offers his expertise on...
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A Glimpse of the Archives of the Future
The National Archives and Records Administration enlisted the Texas Advanced Computing Center to find innovative and scalable solutions to large-scale electronic...
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DARPA Will Spend $20 Million to Search For Crypto's Holy Grail
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) plans to spend $20 million over five years to find a way to both encrypt data and let it be used and...
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How Much Information?
In 2008, the world's servers processed 9.57 zettabytes of information, almost 10 to the 22nd power, or ten million million gigabytes. This was 12 gigabytes of...
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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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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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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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National Science Board Talks "big Data"
The U.S. National Science Board recently held a panel discussion exploring the data challenges facing the future of science and engineering research, with the goal...
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First Image Ever Obtained from Mercury Orbit
At 5:20 am EDT on Mar. 29, 2011, Messenger captured this historic image of Mercury, the first ever obtained from a spacecraft in orbit about the Solar System's...
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Diamond Could Store Quantum Information
Could be that diamonds are a geek’s best friend. Scientists have developed a new way to manipulate atoms inside diamond crystals so that they store information...
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The First Plastic Computer Processor
Silicon may underpin the computers that surround us, but the rigid inflexibility of the semiconductor means it cannot reach everywhere. The first computer processor...
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British Computer Scientists Reboot
After a year of turmoil, computer scientists at King's College London have retained their jobs, but substantial challenges lie ahead.
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Social Games, Virtual Goods
The popularity of virtual goods and currencies in online gaming is changing how people think and act about money.
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Engineering Sensation in Artificial Limbs
Advancements in mobile electronics have led to several prosthetics innovations in recent years, but providing reliable touch sensations to users remains an elusive...
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The Quest For Randomness
It's not easy to generate a string of numbers that lack any pattern or rule, or even to define exactly what randomness means.
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Keeping Tabs on the Infrastructure, Wirelessly
Engineers routinely inspect bridges and other structures for cracks and corrosion. But because they can’t always be there in person, one highly intelligent bridge...
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Extremely Fast Mram Data Storage Within Reach
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt researchers have developed a type of magnetic random access memory (MRAM) equipped with a special chip connection that results...
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Taiwan Researchers Turn to Silk for Flexible E-Devices
Silk membranes can be used for flexible e-book readers, LED displays, and RFID tools, according to researchers at the National Tsing Hua University. A team has...
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Physicists Build Single-Atom Memory For Quantum Information
A single atom of rubidium sits at the heart of an exotic new quantum memory device.
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