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New Supercomputer Benchmarks Overdue?
The yardstick used to identify the world’s best-performing supercomputers–the Linpack Benchmark–no longer reflects "real-world usage" and ought to be replaced with...
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Replicating Human Errors to Test Network Security
University of Southern California researchers have developed a system for testing the security of computer networks by making computers simulate the type of human...
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Trust Develops 'science Base' For Cybersecurity
University of California, Berkeley's TRUST is developing a cybersecurity "science base"– a principled approach to developing trustworthy systems in which security...
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Researchers Find Tipping Point to Sway Public Opinion
If 10% of a social network is strongly committed to an opinion, that’s enough to rapidly convert the uncommitted 90% to adopt their point of view, according to...
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The Importance Of Analyzing Social Intelligence
Huge amounts of data emanating from Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking sites, which is known collectively as “social intelligence, ” is being gathered...
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Five Tips To Improve Enterprise Mobile Security
Mobile devices are increasingly connected with an ecosystem of third-party cloud and desktop services outside an enterprise's control. Here's five tips that enterprises...
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Five Tips For Agile Software Development
The most critical challenge for practitioners of agile software development is learning how to become a self-organizing, cross-functional agile team.
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World Ipv6 Day Concludes Without Major Problems
World IPv6 Day has come and gone and — as on January 1, 2000 when the world held its breath for Y2K zero hour — it's safe to say that no disaster has befallen the...
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How Nations Block Facebook
Last month, Facebook came close to signing up its 700 millionth user. But it is no “friend” of governments—including China, Iran, and Syria—that block it and other...
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Why Has H-1b Visa Demand Plummeted?
The once-coveted H-1B visa that enables skilled non-citizens to work legally in the U.S. is not the prize it once was. What’s happened?
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Autonomous Computers to Recognize and Thwart Cyberthreats
Bruce McConnell, senior counselor for cybersecurity at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, suggests that computers should be involved in protecting themselves...
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Universities, Industry Clash on Need For Open-Source Fpgas
Would open-source field-programmable gate arrays simplify academic research on reconfigurable computing? Researchers say yes, but industry disagrees.
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When CS Students Need Help Asap, They Can Now Turn to Piazzza
Piazzza is a next-generation, wiki-style Q&A platform that has been adopted by more than half of the undergraduate students at Stanford University and is growing...
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Physicians See Mobile Phones as Tools to Aid Non-Compliant Patients
Researchers are using smartphones and other technologies to remind patients to take medication, exercise, and to positively influence their compliance with treatment...
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Personal Robots: Newest Cs1 Teaching Tool
The Institute for Personal Robots in Education has developed a curriculum, software, and plug-in board for an off-the-shelf personal robot that it hopes will...
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IBM Exploring Voice-Driven Web For the Developing World
IBM Research India has launched the Spoken Web, a network designed to use phones, not computers, to bring information on the Web to mainly under-served populations...
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PC Makers Vie To Be Green-est
Leading PC makers have introduced "green" models and set goals for "toxin free" product lines, but other manufacturers say the supply chain is unable to deliver...
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Videogame Glitches Open the World of Computing to Students
Why is the National Science Foundation helping Morehouse College pay students to test videogames? The school's Glitch Game Testers program is one of many NSF efforts...
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Nadya Mason: From Pirouettes to Carbon Nanotubes
In 1986, Nadya Mason competed as a gymnast in Houston, training with the legendary Bela Karolyi as a member of the U.S. National Team, hoping to make it to the2009...
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