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Nist Tool Uses Combination Testing to Catch Software Bugs
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have released a computer system testing tool that can cut costs by more efficiently finding software...
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Improving Emergency Evacuation Planning With Decision-Making Simulation
Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a disaster-response planning tool that uses real-time human decision-making to determine effective law-enforcement...
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Top Software Designer Promotes '21st Century' Techniques
At the recent QCon software development conference, ThoughtWorks chief scientist Martin Fowler hailed concepts such as domain specific languages, continuous integration...
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Why Is a Universal Translator So Elusive?
With a global economy and flights that can take you all over the world in hours, why is it that we still struggle with a language barrier that technology is finding...
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Microsoft Releases F# Under Open Source License
Microsoft has released version 2.0 of the F# compiler and core library under an Apache 2.0 open source license. The development team plans to release new versions...
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Versatile Algorithms For Nanoscale Designs
The ICESTARS project aims to develop and deploy integrated simulation algorithms and prototype tools that will overcome the barriers in existing and future radio...
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Will the It Guy Learn to Love Apple?
It's likely you've got an Apple product plugged into your ears when you're listening to music. Making a phone call? One out of every five people buying a smartphone...
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'code For America' Programmers to Work in City Governments
Boston, Seattle, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C., will each receive a team of five open source Web programmers for 11 months, as chosen by Code for America,...
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New Help on Testing For Common Cause of Software Bugs
As part of the Automated Combinatorial Testing for Software program, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology has developed algorithms for automated...
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W3c Seeks Help, Patience With Html5 Tests
The technology industry should focus more on helping the W3C improve its tests for HTML5 rather than trying to draw conclusions from the tests or from the results...
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Web Browsing Takes a Social Turn
Silicon Valley is awash in tales of the "PayPal Mafia," the tight-knit group of PayPal alumni who have helped one another start and finance a crop of new companies...
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The Emergence of Holographic Video
Experimental networked display refreshes holograms every two seconds.
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New Google Tool Makes Websites Twice as Fast
The optimization tool is the latest result of Google's speed obsession and could add to the company's bottom line.
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Nasa Mission Successfully Flies By Comet Hartley 2
NASA's EPOXI mission successfully flew by comet Hartley 2 at about 7 a.m. PDT (10 a.m. EDT) today, and the spacecraft has begun returning images. Hartley 2 is...
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Long-Range Undersea Robot Does Its Own Research
A new breed of undersea robot promises to give oceanographers a deeper understanding of ocean life by going faster, farther, and longer than its predecessors—and...
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Researchers Develop 'Hi-Def' Copy Number Variation Decoder
CNVer, a computer algorithm developed by researchers at the University of Toronto, promises to simplify the discovery of the precise number of copies of genes in...
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Catching p with Multitouch Pioneer Jeff Han
When it comes to the future of technology, Jeff Han literally has his finger on the pulse.
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Ncsa Director: Gpu Is Future of Supercomputing
The director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications has seen the future of supercomputing and it can be summed up in three letters: GPU.
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Prizewinning Chatbot Steers the Conversation
A chatbot named Suzette recently won the Loebner prize, awarded for a version of the Turing Test, because the system successfully fooled a human judge into thinking...
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