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Computer Graphics Education, Siggraph Supporter Cunningham Dies
American computer scientist and long-time ACM SIGGRAPH volunteer Robert Stephen (Steve) Cunningham died last week following a lengthy illness.
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After Snowden, the Nsa Faces Recruitment Challenge
Daniel Swann is exactly the type of person the National Security Agency would love to have working for it.
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.s. Supreme Court: Gps Trackers Are a Form of Search and Seizure
If the government puts a GPS tracker on you, your car, or any of your personal effects, it counts as a search—and is therefore protected by the Fourth Amendment...
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A Gold Mine of Galaxy Nuggets
One telescope finds the treasure chest, and the other narrows in on the gold coins.
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The Healing Power of Your Own Medical Records
Steven Keating's doctors and medical experts view him as a citizen of the future.
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Stacking Chips Gains Momentum at Stanford
A new model of a monolithic 3D stack could boost logic, memory bandwidth.
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Festo nleashes New Robotic Swarm of Ants and Butterflies
The family of animal robots created by German robotics company Festo is growing. As part of its Bionic Learning Network, the company has introduced two new robots...
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Hi-Tech and Big Data Offer Hope to Battered .s. Oil Industry
The tech geeks are coming to the oil industry's rescue.
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Germanwings Flight 9525, Technology, and the Question of Trust
Shortly before the dreadful crash of Germanwings Flight 9525, I happened to be reading part of "The Second Machine Age," a book by two academics at M.I.T., Erik...
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2,636 Icelandic Genomes Pinpoint Risk For Alzheimer's, Other Diseases
An Icelandic genetics firm has sequenced the genomes of 2,636 of its countrymen and women, finding genetic markers for a variety of diseases, as well as a new timeline...
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Rover Amnesia Event Follows Latest Memory Reformatting
The team operating NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity learned Thursday that the long-lived rover experienced a brief amnesia event related to its flash memory...
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Nvidia's Powerful New Computer Helps Teach Cars to Drive
As cars get smarter and creep ever-closer to driving themselves, the software that makes infotainment systems and adaptive cruise control work is becoming as important...
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Astronomers pgrade Their Cosmic Light Bulbs
The brilliant explosions of dead stars have been used for years to illuminate the far-flung reaches of our cosmos.
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Supercomputers Give niversities a Competitive Edge, Researchers Find
Clemson University researchers found universities with locally available supercomputers are more efficient in producing research in critical fields than universities...
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Why Organism Engineering Could Be a Foodie's Dream Come True
Thanks to recent advances in synthetic biology—a hybrid discipline of engineering and biology that makes possible the manipulation of DNA of microorganisms such...
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Augmented Reality Gets to Work—and Gets Past the 'glassholes'
Augmented reality (AR) is a technology that has been on the cusp of becoming the next big thing for over 20 years.
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Why Kevin Mitnick, the World's Most Notorious Hacker, Is Still Breaking Into Computers
Look no further than Kevin Mitnick's business card to see how some things never change.
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New Stanford Manufacturing Process Could Yield Better Solar Cells, Faster Chips
Stanford University researchers have developed a manufacturing process that could significantly reduce the cost of producing gallium arsenide devices.
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Cooperative Software Framework Helps Tame 'too Big' Data
Researchers have used a multilayer software framework for querying graph databases to customize distributed-memory high-performance computing clusters.
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