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A High-Performance First Year for Stampede
Approximately 3,400 researchers from 350 institutions used the Stampede supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center in its first year.
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Revolutionizing How We Keep Track of Time in Cyber-Physical Systems
A U.S. National Science Foundation to five universities will support development of new clocking technologies, synchronization protocols, and control and sensing...
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World Cup Kickoff Looms For Demo of Brain-Controlled Machine
During the World Cup next week, there may be 1 minute during the opening ceremony when the boisterous stadium crowd in São Paulo falls silent: when a paraplegic...
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Experimental Google Smartphone Becomes Brain of Space Robot
Robots excel at the tedious, repetitive tasks that bore humans into ineffectiveness.
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Artificial Brains Learn to Adapt
Researchers are studying a new type of spiking neural network that more closely mimics the behavioral learning processes of mammalian brains.
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Carnegie Mellon-Disney Researcher Invents 3D Printing Technique For Making Cuddly Stuff
Researchers have developed a type of three-dimensional printer that produces 3D objects made of a form of loose felt.
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A Face to Remember
Researchers have developed a way to change profile photos to highlight a person's most memorable facial features.
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Overcoming Structural Uncertainty in Computer Models
Researchers have developed a technique for incorporating judgments into a model about structural uncertainty that stems from building an "incorrect" model.
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Careers in Statistics Evolve and Expand
Workers with statistics backgrounds have long been in healthy demand for academic, actuarial, pharmaceutical, or government jobs.
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Nanomaterial May Be Future of Hard Drives
Most magnets shrug off tiny temperature tweaks.
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Disney Research Soccer Formations Analysis Suggests Home Advantage Is Result of Execution
An automated analysis of soccer team formations shows visiting teams are less successful than home teams only because they play conservatively.
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Termite-Inspired Robots Build With Bricks
Researchers have developed software that determines how autonomous robots can make specific structures by following the same set of rules.
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2013 Visualization Challenge
With a Ph.D. in neuroscience and a love of Asian art, it may have been inevitable that Greg Dunn would combine them to create sparse, striking illustrations of...
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Scientist Developing 3D Chips to Expand Capacity of Microprocessors
Researchers are working to develop three-dimensional integration, an emerging technology that would vertically stack multiple wafers.
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Which Genes Did We Get From Neandertals?
Tens of thousands of years ago along the balmy Mediterranean coast, or in some desert oasis in the Middle East, a hunky Neandertal male lusted after a modern human...
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.s. Computer Scientists Reject Mass Surveillance
Fifty influential American computer scientists have signed an open letter urging the United States to reject mass surveillance and preserve privacy.
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New Accelerated Visualization and Data Analytics Resources For Open Science Community
The University of Texas at Austin this month will deploy Maverick, a high-performance visualization and data analytics system that will replace the Longhorn system...
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Cyberwar Surprise Attacks Get a Mathematical Treatment
Two University of Michigan professors have written a mathematical model that could help predict the timing of cyberattacks.
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'Invisibility' Materials Could Do Computer's Work
Metamaterials, which can alter the properties of light waves often to render an object invisible, also could carry out mathematical operations.
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