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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...

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...

Ho-Hum to High Performance: Boring Material Could Lead to Electronics Revolution
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Ho-Hum to High Performance: Boring Material Could Lead to Electronics Revolution

Cornell University researchers have found that when the oxide compound europium titanate is sliced nanometers thin and stretched on a specially designed template...

Collaboration With IBM to Speed Up 'the Cloud'
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Collaboration With IBM to Speed Up 'the Cloud'

Cornell University professor Hakim Weatherspoon and IBM researchers are studying the causes of data distortions and are developing ways for cloud computing applications...

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Stimulus Funding to Help Search Engines Learn on the Job

Cornell University researchers are developing search engine software that can learn by noticing which links are clicked on in a list of search results, and how...

Crash, Bang, Rumble! Bringing Noise to Virtual Worlds
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Crash, Bang, Rumble! Bringing Noise to Virtual Worlds

Cornell University computer scientists have developed a method for generating the crashing and rumbling noises of objects made from thin harmonic shells such as...

Researchers Simulate Sounds of Water and Other Liquids
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Researchers Simulate Sounds of Water and Other Liquids

Cornell University computer science researchers have developed new algorithms to simulate the sounds of water to correspond with images. Cornell professor Doug...
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