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A Breakthrough in Algorithm Design
Computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have devised an algorithm that might be able to solve a certain class of linear systems much more quickly than...
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Ibm's New Chips Compute More Like We Do
A microchip with about as much brain power as a garden worm might not seem very impressive, compared with the blindingly fast chips in modern personal computers...
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Virtual and Artificial, but 58,000 Want Course
A free online course at Stanford University on artificial intelligence, to be taught this fall by two leading experts from Silicon Valley, has attracted more...
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Face Recognition Ids Chimps from Photos
Facial recognition isn't just for humans anymore; similar programs run on apes could help park rangers help identify chimps and gorillas, scientists have found...
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Robot 'mission Impossible' Wins Video Prize
You could call it Mission Impossible: Robot Library Heist. An army of flying, rolling, and climbing robots have been taught to work together to find and snatch...
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Milestone For MIT Press's Bestseller
On Thursday, Aug. 4, the MIT Press held a party in MIT's Stata Center to celebrate the sale of the 500,000th copy of the textbook Introduction to Algorithms....
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The Public, Playing a Molecule-Building Game, Outperforms Scientists
A Web-based game that uses the brainpower of biology novices to understand molecules key to life and disease is producing working designs of those molecules in...
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'global Camera' Links Photos Taken By Thousands
Cornell University professor Noah Snavely is leading an effort to develop a "global camera," software that mines pictures from Flickr and combines them to create...
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Google, Mozilla Team Up to Create a Smarter, Action-Based Web
A new meta-Web site application programming interface from Google will make it easier for Web sites to pass data back and forth. Web Intents is designed for its...
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New Police Scanner Raises 'facial Profiling' Concerns
Beginning this fall, police officers across the nation will have a new weapon holstered onto their belts: A small attachment that weighs about 12 ounces turns...
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MI5 Joins Social Messaging Trawl for Riot Organisers
Intelligence agency asked to crack encrypted messages—especially on BlackBerry Messenger—to help police.
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Researchers Find Tipping Point to Sway Public Opinion
If 10% of a social network is strongly committed to an opinion, that’s enough to rapidly convert the uncommitted 90% to adopt their point of view, according to...
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Millions of Web Pages Are Hacker Landmines
Some eight million web pages, published mostly by smaller merchants and professional firms, have been hijacked this summer and set up to usurp control of the...
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The Death of Booting p
Remember "booting up"? It was the first thing you did every morning—you waited two minutes, three minutes, sometimes even longer while your computer ran through...
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How Ibm's 5150 Pc Shaped the Computer Industry
Most people in the Western world walk around with a powerful computer in their pocket or purse, otherwise known as a smartphone. It's not unusual to see someone...
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Stick-On Tattoos Go Electric
Through a combination of careful theoretical modeling and precise micro-manufacturing, a team of engineers and scientists has developed a new type of ultra-thin...
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Research in Game Theory Tackles It Complexity
Institute of Science and Technology Austria professor Krishnendu Chatterjee recently was awarded grants from the European Research Council and Microsoft to support...
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Intel Hopes Sci-Fi Will Help Future Products
For decades, measuring progress in semiconductors was easy. Every year the chips got faster and the industry moved forward. Speed matters far less these days.
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