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CS Pioneer Knuth Releases Long-Awaited Textbook
Computer science pioneer Donald Knuth has released the "The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4A, The Combinatorial Algorithms, Part 1," the first part of volume...
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I, Algorithm: A New Dawn For Artificial Intelligence
The field of artificial intelligence (AI) is undergoing a revival, spurred by probabilistic programming that merges classic AI's logical principles with the power...
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The Science of Bike-Sharing
Tel Aviv University researchers are developing a mathematical model to help new urban bike-sharing systems operate more efficiently. Bike-sharing systems have...
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Was Egypt Oversold as Top Offshoring Spot?
Before Egypt turned off the Internet, the country had received increasingly high marks from leading analysis firms as a promising offshore outsourcing destination...
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Microsoft Offers Developers Access to Technical Computing Projects
Microsoft has provided developers with a resource for accessing early releases of software from its Technical Computing Initiative. TC Labs, which is part of the...
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Intel Spreads Its niversity Research Bets
Computing in general is increasingly applying the old engineering dictum, divide and conquer. Look at the engines behind cloud computing—vast, distributed armies...
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Hardware, Software Advances Help Protect Operating Systems From Attack
North Carolina State University researchers have developed a system that utilizes hardware and software to restore an operating system if it is attacked. The focus...
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ACM Launches New Digital Library
More than 50 years of computing literature is augmented, streamlined, and joined to powerful new tools for retrieval and analysis.
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Following the Crowd
Crowdsourcing is based on a simple but powerful concept: Virtually anyone has the potential to plug in valuable information.
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Maurice Wilkes: The Last Pioneer
Computer science has lost not only a great scientist, but an important link to the electronic computing revolution that took place in the 1940s.
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Headless Conficker Worm Lives in Computers
The people who control the Conficker computer worm have been prevented from using it to control computers and create a botnet, according to a new report. However...
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Intel Agency: Without Videogames, We
American intelligence analysts are biased, and therefore make lousy decisions—even the spooky agencies admit that. The spy guys’ new hope for introducing some...
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Public Art? There's an App For That
"Take It Artside!," a free smartphone application developed by students and faculty at the University of Kentucky, includes images, descriptions, and the location...
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Sandia's Heroux Named Editor of ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software
Sandia National Laboratories researcher Mike Heroux has been named editor-in-chief of the ACM journal Transactions on Mathematical Software.
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3D Tv? How About Holographic Tv?
Using a single Xbox Kinect and standard graphics chips, MIT researchers demonstrate the highest frame rate yet for streaming holographic video.
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Binghamton CS Grad Designs Android Application
Binghamton University researchers have developed Lake Sunapee Protective Association Recorder, an Android application that enables users to record observations...
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Carnegie Mellon Researcher Creates Song-O-Matic
Carnegie Mellon University's Burr Settles has developed Titular, software that helps songwriters come up with titles for their new songs. Titular produces five...
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Domestic se of Aerial Drones By Law Enforcement Likely to Prompt Privacy Debate
The suspect's house, just west of this city, sat on a hilltop at the end of a steep, exposed driveway. Agents with the Texas Department of Public Safety believed...
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Engineers Increasing Wireless Speed
As part of a study funded by InterDigital, Virginia Tech researchers have made great strides in the development of more reliable and efficient spectrum sensing...
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