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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...
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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....
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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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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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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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Total Recall: Data Diaries Explain Who You Really Are
The collection, archival, and search of everyday personal experiences that are recorded by cameras and other devices could support the digital diaries envisioned...
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UPC Team Presents a System for Analyzing Information on WikiLeaks
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya researchers have developed DEX, a system for finding information on networks that is designed to complement Internet search...
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Electric Currents Move Racetrack Memory Bits with Precision
The moving bits in the proposed data-storage scheme do not stop and start instantaneously, but their motion is easy to quantify.
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Earth Project Aims to 'simulate Everything'
An international group of scientists are aiming to create a simulator that can replicate everything happening on Earth—from global weather patterns and the spread...
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Massive Collider Churning Out Data
This year the world's largest science experiment roared to life. Deep beneath the French-Swiss border, the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, has spent the year accelerating...
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Photo Project Aims to Preserve Time in 3D
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology researchers have developed a method to preserve the world's treasures in three-dimensional life-like models using...
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India's Elephantine Effort
An ambitious biometric ID project in the world's second most populous nation aims to relieve poverty, but faces many hurdles.
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The Touchy Subject of Haptics
After more than 20 years of research and development, are haptic interfaces finally getting ready to enter the computing mainstream?
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Virtual Spheres Speed Up Skimming Through Mobile Video
With more than 35 hours of video uploaded to YouTube each minute, finding the right video without downloading it first is difficult. And video searching on mobile...
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Word-Wide Web Launches
New Google database puts centuries of cultural trends in reach of linguists.
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Computer Spin Memory: Physicists Read Data Stored in Atomic Nuclei
University of Utah physicists stored data for 112 seconds in the "spins" of atomic nuclei. Their work is a step toward using spin memory for faster conventional...
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UCLA Receives $5.5m For Work on High-Speed, High-Capacity Memory
UCLA researchers recently received a $5.5 million U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency grant to continue developing technology that could lead to low-power...
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How Rare Is that Fingerprint? Computational Forensics Provides the First Clues
University at Buffalo researchers have developed a method to computationally determine how rare a particular fingerprint is and how likely it is to belong to a...
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Panel Set to Study Safety of Electronic Patient Data
Almost two years ago, President Obama pledged $19 billion in stimulus incentives to help convert the nation’s doctors and hospitals to using a paperless system...
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