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Mit Researchers Tout Network Intrusion Recovery System

Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers are developing RETRO, a system designed to make it easier for organizations to recover from security breaches. ...

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Infer Project Seeks Smart Software Solution

Bournemouth University is leading INFER, an EU-funded project involving  researchers and organizations in three countries. INFER will develop automated systems...

Researchers Honored For Influential Contributions to Software Engineering Field
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Researchers Honored For Influential Contributions to Software Engineering Field

"Bandera: Extracting Finite-State Models From Java Source Code," published in 2000, received the Most Influential Paper Award at the recent International Conference...

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Iran Denies Malware Connection to Nuclear Delay

Iranian officials announced Monday that a "small leak" was the cause of the latest setback to starting up its first nuclear power plant, and said the delay had...

Cell Phones Make a Touch Surface Smarter
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Cell Phones Make a Touch Surface Smarter

A new system identifies users by their mobile phones.

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Blade Software Eliminates 'drive-By Downloads' from Malicious Websites

Researchers have developed a new tool that eliminates so-called 'drive-by download' threats. BLADE is browser-independent and when tested, it blocked all drive-by...

Aiming to Learn As We Do, a Machine Teaches Itself
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Aiming to Learn As We Do, a Machine Teaches Itself

Give a computer a task that can be crisply defined—win at chess, predict the weather—and the machine bests humans nearly every time. Yet when problems are nuanced...

Stuxnet: Fact vs. Theory
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Stuxnet: Fact vs. Theory

The Stuxnet worm has taken the computer security world by storm, inspiring talk of  a government-sponsored cyberwar, and of a software program laden with obscure...

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Iran Detains 'Spies' As It Moves to Ease Fears Over Stuxnet Cyber Attack

Intelligence chief blames western powers for computer worm targeting nuclear systems.

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'fabric' Would Tighten the Weave of Online Security

Cornell University professors Fred Schneider and Andrew Myers are developing a way to incorporate security into the programming language used to write computer...

Tablet, Phone Software Developers Face Multicore Challenge
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Tablet, Phone Software Developers Face Multicore Challenge

Industry experts at the recent Linley Tech Processor conference said that writing applications for mobile devices could become more challenging as central processing...

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Regulators Blame Computer Algorithm for Stock Market 'Flash Crash'

A new report calls the May 6 stock market flash crash the responsibility of an automated trade execution system that inundated the Chicago Exchange's e-trading...

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Change to 'bios' Will Make For Pcs That Boot in Seconds

The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) is set to replace BIOS as the dominant PC startup software and could allow computers to start in just seconds. 

Computer Graphics to Help Streamline Green Building Design
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Computer Graphics to Help Streamline Green Building Design

Cornell University researchers are developing simulation software that streamlines the process of making buildings meet sustainability requirements, which will...

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Google Offers JPEG Alternative for Faster Web

Google has developed a new format for Web images called WebP, which it says can reduce image file sizes by 40 percent compared to the widely used JPEG format. 

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Inside Stuxnet: Researcher Drops New Clues About Origin of Worm

The mysterious Stuxnet worm took center stage at the Virus Bulletin 2010 conference here with a prominent security researcher dropping a raw hint that Israel may...

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Multicore May Not Be So Scary

Research suggests that the free operating system Linux will keep up with the addition of more "cores," or processing units, to computer chips.

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Iran Thwarts Viral Attack on Nuclear Plant System: Atomic Chief

Head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Ali-Akbar Salehi said Wednesday that the enemy's efforts to infect Iranian nuclear systems with a computer virus have...

Dust Models Paint Alien's View of Solar System
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Dust Models Paint Alien's View of Solar System

New supercomputer simulations tracking the interactions of thousands of dust grains show what the solar system might look like to alien astronomers searching...

Should Code Be Released?
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Should Code Be Released?

Software code can provide important insights into the results of research, but it's up to individual scientists whether their code is released---and many opt not...
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