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Analytical Eye: Viewing Through the Data Jungle
Visualization techniques can help improve the understanding of the large volumes of data people accumulate, according to researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute...
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IBM Will Research Mobile Access For the Elderly, Illiterate
Researchers at IBM Research India, India's National Institute of Design, and the University of Tokyo's Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology are investigating...
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Nsf Seeks New Approach to Helping Minority Students in Science
U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) programs that assist specific racial and ethnic groups would be consolidated under a new proposal from the agency.
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Safety Issues Loom as Humanoid Invasion Approaches
As robot technology advances, and their use puts them in closer contact with humans, safety has become a top priority for some researchers.
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Crdf Applauds Introduction of Science-Based Diplomacy Legislation
The U.S. Civilian Research & Development Foundation (CRDF) applauds the introduction of legislation to enhance and expand the role of science in American foreign...
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Effort to Widen .S. Internet Access Sets p Battle
The Federal Communications Commission is proposing an ambitious 10-year plan that will reimagine the nation's media and technology priorities by establishing high...
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Netflix Ditches Beat-Our-Recommendation-System Contest Due to Privacy Questions
Netflix's grassroots competition to best its recommendation algorithm was a big popularity booster for the company—but thanks to concerns over privacy (backed up...
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How to Build a Superluminal Computer
Vienna University of Technology physicists Volkmar Putz and Karl Svozil have devised a way to process information that exceeds the speed of light.
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International Deal Struck in Race to Build Quantum Computer
Researchers at the University of Waterloo's Institute for Quantum Computing and Singapore's Centre for Quantum Technologies have agreed to collaborate to build...
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Mobile Phones Learn to Lip Read
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology professor Tanja Shultz demonstrated a prototype device for communicating without speaking at the recent CeBIT conference.
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Haptimap Project Aims to Make Maps Accessible Through Touch, Hearing and Vision
A European consortium plans to develop toolkits and concepts for improving the multimodal perceptualizations (visualizations involving senses other than sight)...
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Group Seeks to Open Source Data-Center Design
The recently announced Open Source Data Center Initiative is looking to apply open source principles to the design and construction of data centers.
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Race Matters
Black college instructors play a significant role in encouraging black science students to persist as science majors, according to a study by Cornell University...
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Instant Ads Set the Pace on the Web
Advertisers have been able to direct online messages based on demographics, income and even location, but one element has been largely missing until recently:...
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Jpl Program Cleans Mars Mission Code
Jet Propulsion Laboratory uses formal verification at every step of software development, and is applying some of those techniques to the flight code for next year's...
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Software's Take on the Light Bulb Joke
How many men does it take to change a light bulb? Putting the punchline aside a moment, consider that it takes even more to pack a shipping crate. Now a European...
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Computer Algorithm 'reads' Memories
Computer algorithms developed at University College London (UCL) can predict which of three short films a person is thinking about, just by looking at their brain...
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Toyota Applies the Brakes
In the wake of a massive public-relations nightmare involving brake problems in its cars, Toyota is investigating two more reports this week of unintended acceleration...
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Educating Elite Hackers
It started with Michael Coppola taking things apart at the age of five: the remote control, his mother's house lamps, the family's VCR. He was curious about how...
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