Communications of the ACM
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July 2010
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Htc, Samsung Rebut Apple's Smartphone Claims
Asian handset makers HTC Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co. on Monday rebutted claims made by Apple Inc. that the iPhone 4's reception problems are shared by other global smartphone makers.
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Google May Know Your Desires Before You Do
Google attempts to return relevant search results in the blink of an eye. But in future it could go one better, delivering search results to its users even before they know that they want the information.
From ICT Results
European Mobile Robot Collects Garbage On Demand
European researchers have built a robot for 'on-demand' garbage collection—just make a call and it will soon arrive at your door. It's ideal for collecting waste in the narrow streets of many historical towns.
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Roila, a New Spoken Language Designed For Robots
Eindhoven University of Technology researchers are developing the Robot Interaction Language (ROILA), a spoken language for robots that is meant to be easy for people to learn and easy for robots to understand.
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Some Experts Question Efforts to Identify Cyberattackers
Cybersecurity experts testifying at a recent U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee hearing disagreed about whether the federal government should explore new ways to attribute the sources of cyberattacks.
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Safety in Numbers
Mathematicians and computer scientists are working on equations and algorithms that exhibit potential as terrorism countermeasures. These include powerful algorithms that mine volumes of data and extract hidden rules that govern…
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OSIRIS Project to Guide ICT Research Infrastructures
The OSIRIS project is developing an international strategy for open and sustainable ICT research infrastructures.
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Brighter Color For Reflective E-Reading Displays
Hewlett-Packard researchers are developing a composite material that use ambient light to create more vibrant colors for video-capable, low-power screens.
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DARPA Issues Call For Computer Science Devotees
DARPA wants university-based researchers to come up with the next big computer science idea—for the military.
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Did a Speeding Car Just Jump Out of My Cellphone?
Smartphones are getting smarter. Now some new models even offer games or television broadcasts in three dimensions—and you don’t need special glasses to see the show.
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Pitting Cloud Against Cloud
Tools that benchmark performance promise to reveal the strengths and weaknesses of competing cloud providers.
From ICT Results
This Is the City, 2.0
Augmented reality tours of real monuments, instant visualization of virtual objects on living cityscapes, and user-generated, digital story telling around famous landmarks are a few of the applications made possible by research…
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Touch-Sensitive Virtual Reality Tools Will Train and Test Tomorrow's Surgeons
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute researchers receive $2.3 million NIH grant to develop and validate virtual reality hardware, software for training and certifying laparoscopic surgeons.
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Google's Fight to Keep Search a Secret
Can Google keep a secret?
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'broken Symmetry' Discovery Opens Path to Room-Temperature Superconductors
In a major step toward understanding the mysterious "pseudogap" state in high-temperature cuprate superconductors, a team of scientists have found a "broken symmetry," where electrons act like molecules in a liquid crystal…
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Human Trials Next For Darpa's Mind-Controlled Artificial Arm
Pentagon-backed scientists are getting ready to test thought-controlled prosthetic arms on human subjects, by rewiring their brains to fully integrate the artificial limbs.
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Cutting-Edge Medical Imaging System Will Employ Night Vision Technology
UTHealth has reached an agreement with other institutions that will allow it to take the next step in commercially developing an innovative medical imaging system that uses night vision technology to tackle a common side effect…
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Researchers nsheathe New Tool to Battle Botnets
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers have developed a method to use a botnet's own technology to defeat it.
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Geo-Tags Reveal Celeb Secrets
U.S. computer scientists have demonstrated that by using information from Internet images and videos it is possible to determine the addresses and locations of the people in those images.
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How Twitter Could Better Predict Disease Outbreaks
Social media is particularly useful for anyone who wants to track the present—or predict the future.
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Virtual Reality System Puts Researchers Inside Protein Structures
To understand a protein, it helps to get inside of it, and a University of Arkansas professor James F. Hinton has developed a virtual reality system that does just that.
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DARPA
Darpa’s leading advocate for crowdsourcing and other ways of tapping new talent is leaving to join Microsoft—after only a year at the Defense Department’s top R&D division.
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Pnnl, Chinese Researchers Begin Cooperative Clean Energy Work
Researchers from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, the National Energy Technology Laboratory and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have formed a partnership to accelerate the development and deployment of emissions reducing…
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At Irobot, Moving Way Beyond the Roomba
I have seen the future of military robotics, and it is autonomy.
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Video Game Processors Help Lower Ct Scan Radiation
A new approach to processing X-ray data could lower by a factor of ten or more the amount of radiation patients receive during cone beam CT scans, report researchers from the University of California, San Diego.
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Entering the Secret World of Wikileaks
The Website Wikileaks publishes secret documents submitted by anonymous sources and makes them available to the public. The site, which went public in January 2007, has been compared to Daniel Ellsberg's leaking of the Pentagon…
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Superconductor Research May Solve 'pseudogap' Problem in Physics
Binghamton University physicist Michael Lawler and his colleagues have made a breakthrough that could lead to advances in superconductors.
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Europe Overtakes Asia as Top Producer of Email Spam
Europe has overtaken Asia as the biggest source of email spam worldwide with Britain a major culprit, according to a new report by information technology security firm Sophos.
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China's Green Dam May Be Ready to Collapse
China's Green Dam software-filtering project has been staying afloat without government funds for the past year, but the project may now be in danger of collapse, according to reports.
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The Challenge of China's Green Technology Policy
To remain competitive in the growing clean energy race, the United States must implement a new public investment strategy with the overarching goal of making clean energy cheap in real, unsubsidized terms, an energy policy…