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Physics Brings Realism to Virtual Reality
The latest multi-core processors and smart software are enabling physicists and engineers to simulate the real world with unprecedented accuracy to create more...
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Circuit Malfunction Preceded Dc Metro Crash
The replacement of an important piece of collision-prevention equipment five days before last week's fatal train crash on the Washington, D.C., Metro's Red Line...
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Drexel to Deploy Smart Grid System
Drexel University will deploy a smart grid system to provide real-time measurements of the University's power usage and allow excess power to be sold back to the...
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Long-Range Effects Found in Advanced Magnetic Devices
A tiny grid pattern has led materials scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Institute of Solid State Physics in Russia...
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Scientists Create First Electronic Quantum Processor
Yale University researchers have led a research effort to develop the first rudimentary solid-state quantum processor, a major step toward the creation of a quantum...
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Stealthy Droid Works Lands $100k Nsf Grant
The National Science Foundation has awarded a $99,865 grant to The Droid Works Inc., the stealthy robotics firm headed by Helen Grenier, co-founding director at...
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Cars Get Cooperative
European researchers have developed a groundbreaking middleware platform that could lead to thousands of new applications in a range of industries. Beginning with...
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Human-Like Vision Lets Robots Navigate Naturally
A robotic vision system that mimics key visual functions of the human brain promises to let robots maneuver quickly and safely through cluttered environments, and...
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Radar Will Improve Agents' Tunnel Vision
Of every tunnel ever discovered by U.S. border patrol agents, "all of them have been found by accident or human intelligence," said Ed Turner, a project manager...
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The Bottom Line on Solid State Drives
The majority of an organization's stored data sits untouched. Andrew Leung, a computer science researcher at the University of California, was part of a team that...
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Liskov's Creative Joy
Barbara Liskov muses about the creative process of problem solving, finding the perfect design point, and pursuing a research path.
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Contemporary Approaches to Fault Tolerance
Thanks to computer scientists like Barbara Liskov, researchers are making major progress with cost-efficient fault tolerance for Web-based systems.
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Cifellows Status Report
The Computing Innovation Fellows (CIFellows) Project has received 526 applications for CIFellowships from 145 distinct colleges and universities. The applications...
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Nanotubes Weigh the Atom
How can you weigh a single atom? European researchers have built an exquisite new device that can do just that. It may ultimately allow scientists to study theCARDEQ...
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nderwater Robots Identify Potential Threats in Murky Waters
Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute at Florida Atlantic University has received $2 million from the U.S. Department of Defense, Office of Naval Research, to continue...
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Reading the Brain Without Poking It
Experimental devices that read brain signals have helped paralyzed people use computers and may let amputees control bionic limbs. But existing devices use tiny...
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Toyota Develops Technology For Brain Waves to Steer Wheelchair
Toyota Motor Corp. says it has developed a way of steering a wheelchair by just detecting brain waves, without the person having to move a muscle or shout a command...
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Intel's Mukherjee Wins ACM Computer Architecture Award
The ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture (SIGARCH) presented its 2009 Maurice Wilkes Award to Shubu Mukherjee of Intel Corp. for his contributions...
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Nanotechnology Conference Is Full of Big Ideas
From solar panels to electric circuitry, the next big thing may be really tiny. Global leaders in nanotechnology — the science of the very, very small — spent two...
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