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Aid Agencies Turn to Open-Source Software
Wesleyan University and Trinity College students have developed Collabbit, software that acts as a virtual emergency response center. Collabbit serves as a central...
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New Digital Security Program Doesn't Protect as Promised
The Vanish security system has been broken by a team of researchers from the University of Texas at Austin, Princeton University, and the University of Michigan...
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Filming Photons, One Million Times a Second
European researchers have created a CMOS semiconductor camera capable of filming individual photons one million times a second. The breakthrough will have an...
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Self-Managing Internet Applications Flex Their Muscles
A European research project that incubates self-managing Internet applications is paying off. It has inspired a Wikipedia that the researchers claim is betterSELFMAN...
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Augmented Reality Gets Off to a Wobbly Start
Although the iPhone can superimpose navigation routes or reviews on top of real-time images, augmented reality (AR) still has a long way to go. The iPhone's application...
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'time Telescope' Could Boost Web
Researchers led by Cornell University's Mark Foster report that they have developed a prototype device that could significantly boost the volume of information...
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Researchers to Create Semantic Web Platforms For Massive Scientific Collaboration
Web scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will use the World Wide Web to compile and share scientific data on an unprecedented scale. Their goal is to...
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Gaming Tech Aids Scientists Building Virtual Synthetic Chromatophore
Researchers are relying on graphics processing units to help build a highly complex computer simulation depicting how chromatophore proteins create photosynthesis...
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Smart Grid Vulnerabilities Could Cause Widespread Disruptions
A new cybersecurity coordination task force report highlights the need for planners to prepare for possible attacks on the U.S.'s smart grid and the technology...
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Spanish Scientists Develop the Intelligent Financial Search Engine
Researchers from Carlos III University of Madrid (UCM3), the University of Murcia, and the Business Institute have jointly created SONAR, a new search engine that...
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Researchers Break Vanish Security System
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, Princeton and the University of Michigan claim to have broken the Vanish security system, a research prototype...
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MIT Creating Microchip That Could Restore Vision
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have developed a microchip that could be used with wireless technology and eyeglasses equipped with a camera...
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Alliance Aims to Provide Mashup Interoperability
Eleven information technology companies are forming the Open Mashup Alliance (OMA) to promote and support the Enterprise Mashup Markup Language (EMML), which members...
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New Ranking Algorithm Separates Digital Wheat from Chaff
The ranking algorithm called SPEAR (SPamming-resistant Expertise Analysis and Ranking), developed by PhD candidates Ching Man Au Yeung of the University of Southampton...
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Wolfram's Search Goal: Compute All
Stephen Wolfram has set the ambitious goal of converting the global corpus of knowledge into a computable format through WolframAlpha.com, a computational knowledge...
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The Sum of Knowledge
European researchers are creating new technology that could, ultimately, make accessible the sum of humankind’s knowledge. Hundreds of organisations and millions...
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Visualizing the Aztecs
University of Utah professor Antonio Serrato-Combe has created a British Museum exhibition that allows visitors to digitally explore the empire of the last elected...
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Mobile Phones Present Improved, Augmented Reality
New mobile phones could make it possible for augmented reality (AR) — real-world views overlaid with digital information — to trump virtual reality, which lacks...
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Infoglut: The Disease of the New Millennium
Information, the very thing that makes it possible to be an engineer, a doctor, a lawyer, or any other kind of information worker, is threatening our ability to...
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