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Software Helps Spot Groups of Fake Online Reviews
Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago and Google have developed software that can identify groups of fraudulent online reviews that attempt to...
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New Julia Language Seeks to Be the C For Scientists
MIT researchers have developed Julia, a programming language designed for building technical applications. The language has already been used for image analysis...
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Man and Machine: Better Writers, Better Grades
A University of Akron study comparing human graders and software designed to score student essays concluded that they achieved virtually identical levels of accuracy...
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Going With the Flow: Google's Secret Switch to the Next Wave of Networking
In early 1999, an associate computer science professor at UC Santa Barbara climbed the steps to the second floor headquarters of a small startup in Palo Alto, and...
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War of the Worlds: When Science, Politics Collide
Roger Cone is a microbiologist, not a politician. He struggles with a basic truth: For all the scientific acceptance of evolution, many Americans simply don't believe...
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Security Researcher nearths Plans For Iran's Halal Internet
Iran appears to have recently published a Persian-language "Request for Information" for an even-more filtered and monitored version of the Internet than what presently...
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Automating Scientific Discovery
Computer scientists are teaching machines to run experiments, make inferences from the data, and use the results to conduct new experiments.
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Robots Like Us
Thanks to new research initiatives, autonomous humanoid robots are inching closer to reality.
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Medical Device Hack Attacks May Kill, Researchers Warn
Karen Sandler has a big heart. And that's not just because she is head of the Gnome Foundation—a non-profit community group dedicated to making and giving away...
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Digitally Possessed
Virtual possessions play an increasingly important role in our daily lives. How we think about them and deal with them is changing the way we think and interact...
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A Workshop Revival
The success of Germany's Dagstuhl Seminars has inspired a proliferation of Dagstuhl-like venues, especially in India.
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Demand For Linux Skills Sets a New Record This Month
People with Linux skills and experience have a good chance of finding a Linux job, or landing a better position.
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Research Consortium Claims Solution For Multi-Core Scaling
Hierarchical hardware coherence that remains transparent to application programs could be used to solve the scaling problem for next-generation processors, according...
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Network Science Reveals the Cities That Lead the World's Music Listening Habits
Clique Research Cluster scientists recently analyzed data from Last.fm, a social Web site for music, to determine which cities set the world's listening trends.
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Data Centers in Va. and Elsewhere Have Major Carbon Footprint, Report Says
Data centers and mobile telecommunications networks use more than 623 billion kilowatt hours of electricity annually, and a 2008 study found that the IT sector...
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Programming Project Comes to Primary Schools
A volunteer project in the United Kingdom is writing session plans for teaching the basics of computer programming to children between the ages of 10 and 11.
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Online Education Venture Lures Cash Infusion and Deals With 5 Top Universities
Stanford University computer science professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller recently received $16 million in venture capital funding and formed partnerships with...
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Cassini Successfully Flies Over Enceladus
Cassini flew by Enceladus at an altitude of about 46 miles (74 kilometers). This flyby was designed primarily for the ion and neutral mass spectrometer to analyze...
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Nancy Lynch Named 2012 Athena Lecturer
MIT's Nancy Lynch was named the 2012 Athena Lecturer for her advances in distributed systems that enable dependable Internet and wireless network applications.
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