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Computational Process Zeroes in on Top Genetic Cancer Suspects
A team of engineers at Johns Hopkins University have devised innovative computer software that can sift through hundreds of genetic mutations and highlight the...
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Trying to Woo Partners, Cloud Computing Vendors Show Them the Money
One of the early promises of software-as-a-service and cloud computing was that it would allow start-ups to directly market their Web services while skipping the...
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Opencl: Parallel Programmers' New Best Friend
Apple's new Snow Leopard operating system features the Open Computing Language (OpenCL), new parallel programming technology that Apple hopes will become a standard...
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National Science Foundation Awards $1.4 Million For Genocad Development
Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech professor Jean Peccoud has been awarded a three-year, $1.42 million grant from the National Science Foundation...
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A New Language For Phone Networks
University of Cambridge professor Jon Crowcroft is leading a research effort to change how cell phones send information by creating peer-to-peer mobile device networks...
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Ole Miss to Tweet its Watts
SmartSynch Inc., a smart grid infrastructure company using Internet protocol via public wireless networks, is partnering with the University of Mississippi to reduce...
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Inventor Demonstrates Humanoid Robot's Latest AI Abilities
Independent inventor Le Trung recently demonstrated the newest version of his robot-controlling software called Bio Robot Artificial Intelligence Neural System...
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Computer Scientists at Yale Develop New Hybrid Database System
Yale computer scientists recently demonstrated HadoopDB, their new open source system for managing huge amounts of data, at the VLDB conference in Lyon, France....
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Software Annotates Images For Semantic Search
Innovative software developed in Europe that makes it easier to organize, search and navigate collections of digital images will soon be available to media agencies...
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Making Global Science Networking More ser-Friendly
Computer scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago's Electronic Visualization Laboratory have received a $1.9 million grant from the U.S. National Science...
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Software System Helps Train Orthopedic Surgeons
New and experienced orthopedic surgeons can improve their surgical skills with an innovative software surveillance system that tracks their instruments during surgery...
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Moral Machines
Scientists at the Universidade Nova De Lisboa, in Portugal, and the Universitas Indonesia, in Indonesia, are researching artificial intelligence and the application...
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Computer System Classifies Music By its Beat and Tempo
Taiwanese computer scientists have developed a neural network program that can classify music on its beat and tempo. Lead researchers Mao-Yuan Kao and Chang-Biau...
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Defying Experts, Rogue Computer Code Still Lurks
Like a ghost ship, a rogue software program that glided onto the Internet last November has confounded the efforts of top security experts to eradicate the program...
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Html 5 Steps p
Microsoft Internet Explorer developers recently offered their feedback on the most recent draft of HTML version 5. Despite the fact that the entire Web is built...
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sing Robots to Serve the Elderly at Home
Robots that lend a very human-like helping hand to healthy elderly people with limited mobility may be on the horizon, thanks to three University of Illinois at...
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Fujitsu Aims For 10-Petaflop Supercomputer
Fujitsu is building a 10-petaflop supercomputer based on its upcoming Sparc64 VIIIfx processor. The new processor has eight processor cores, with each running...
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Facing an Age-Old Problem
Researchers are addressing the computing challenges of older individuals, whose needs are different — and too often disregarded.
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Entering a Parallel Universe
The promise of parallel computing has run afoul of the harsh reality of Amdahl's Law, which puts a ceiling on the benefit of converting sequential code to parallel...
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