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Can You Trust Crowd Wisdom?
A researcher who studied the voting patterns on Amazon.com, the Internet Movie Database (IMDb), and the book review site BookCrossings says a small group of users...
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Accurate Predictions in a Limited Calculation Time
Computers need to automatically focus on key changes in an area in order to accurately predict air, road traffic, and water flow with computer simulations, according...
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Electronics 'Missing Link' nited With Rest of the Family
Memristors were identified by Hewlett-Packard (HP) as the missing link of electronics 18 months ago, and since then the same team of HP researchers has upgraded...
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.s. Air Force Funds Super-Fast, Secure Computing
The U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) is supporting University of Michigan (UM) physicists' development of components for quantum computers that...
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How Emerging Wireless Techs Are Transforming Healthcare
Heath care technology researchers are taking advantage of faster wireless networks and developing new "telehealth" sensors and devices as part of a booming new...
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Graphitic Memory Techniques Advance at Rice
Rice University researcher James Tour and postdoctoral associate Alexander Sinitskii used industry-standard lithographic techniques to place 10-nanometer strips...
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Rome Is Built in a Day, with Hundreds of Thousands of Digital Photos
The ancient city of Rome was not built in a day. It took nearly a decade to build the Colosseum, and almost a century to construct St. Peter's Basilica. But now...
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Digital Contacts Will Keep an Eye on Your Vital Signs
University of Washington (UW) researchers are developing a contact lens with a wirelessly powered light-emitting diode (LED) in the hope that the device can be...
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Virtual Maps For the Blind
BlindAid, developed by Tel Aviv University's Orly Lahav, is a new program that helps the blind navigate through unfamiliar locations. BlindAid digitally maps real...
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The Wall Street Journal 2009 Technology Innovation Awards
New York-based Organic Motion Inc.'s motion-capture system that doesn't require bodysuits or markers won the computing-systems category of The Wall Street Journal...
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Communications Web Site Wins Best New Site Award
ACM's Web platform for its flagship publication Communications of the ACM (http://cacm.acm.org) garnered the top award for best new Web site by Media Business magazine...
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On the Road to Secure Car-to-Car Communications
A European research project works out how to keep car-to-car data transmissions private and secure from malicious hackers.
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Role For Robots: Helping Elderly at Home
Three University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) engineers and a Rush University nursing specialist have been awarded a three-year, $989,000 National Science Foundation...
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Computer Scientists Win Morpho Challenge 2009
University of Bristol computer scientists have won the Morpho Challenge, an international science competition financed by the European Union through its PASCAL...
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Stimulus Funds to Further Cyber Security Research
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 will fund a project designed to protect the privacy and security of business information systems and data centers...
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Nationwide Research Network Will Expand Supercomputer Capabilities
Indiana University (IU) researchers will lead a four-year, $15 million National Science Foundation project to develop software to connect future supercomputers...
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Catching Fake Meds in a Snapshot
New York University researchers have proposed Epothecary, a system that uses cell phones to authenticate and track drugs distributed in the developing world. The...
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Nsf Awards a Petascale Computing Grant to Study Turbulent Clouds
University of Delaware National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) scientists have received a $1,064,500 grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct...
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Machines Still Way Behind Humans in Image Recognition
Computers can copy many aspects of human behavior, but they don't yet possess our ability to recognize distorted images, says a team of researchers. "Our goal is...
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