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Automakers Aim to Drive Away Car Computer Hackers
Against the team of hackers, the poor car stood no chance.
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Researchers Announce Advance in Image-Recognition Software
Two groups of scientists, working independently, have created artificial intelligence software capable of recognizing and describing the content of photographs...
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Researchers Advance 'quantum Teleportation'
The world at the quantum level, at the scale of particles too small for the eye to see, is very strange.
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Sculptor Offers Another Clue in 24-Year-Old Mystery at C.i.a.
The artist who created the enigmatic Kryptos, a puzzle-in-a-sculpture that has driven code breakers to distraction since it was installed 24 years ago in a courtyard...
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Mathematical Time Law Governs Crowd Flow
Walking in crowds means predicting the future.
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Georgia Tech Professor Proposes Alternative to 'turing Test'
Georgia Institute of Technology professor Mark Riedl has developed a more rigorous way to evaluate the intelligence of a computer than the Turing Test.
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Cats and Athletes Teach Robots to Fall
Researchers are studying feline and human behavior during falls with the goal of applying its physics to robotic landings.
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Researchers Push Supercomputing's Bleeding Edge With Diverse Applications
One of five finalists will be awarded ACM's Gordon Bell Prize today at the SC14 high-performance computing conference in New Orleans.
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Evolution Software Looks Beyond the Branches
PhyloNet is an open source Java-based program that accounts for both the horizontal and vertical inheritance of genetic material among genomes.
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Ntu Engineers Develop Innovative Process to Print Flexible Electronic Circuits
Nanyang Technological University researchers say they have developed a technique to print complex electronic circuits using a common T-shirt printer.
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Scientific Computing's Future: Can Any Coding Language Top a 1950s Behemoth?
Cutting-edge research still universally involves Fortran; a trio of challengers wants in.
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Penn Engineers Efficiently 'mix' Light at the Nanoscale
Scientists say photonic-based systems could replace electronic systems as a way to make computer components smaller, faster, and less power-hungry.
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IBM Shares Plans For Supercomputing Future
IBM is developing a new supercomputing architecture to boost data processing at the storage, memory, and input/output levels.
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Researchers Test First 'smart Spaces' sing Light to Send Data
Dartmouth College professor Xia Zhou and colleagues are experimenting with "smart spaces" featuring ceiling-mounted light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and light sensors...
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Window Washing Skills Beyond a Robot's Reach
As a pair of window washers clung to a scaffold dangling outside the 68th floor of 1 World Trade Center on Wednesday, the captivating drama left some below wondering...
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Three Touchdowns For Rosetta's Lander
After achieving touchdown on a comet for the first time in history, scientists and engineers are busy analysing this new world and the nature of the landing.
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Google's Larry Page: The Most Ambitious Ceo in the niverse
As Google's core business continues to thrive, Larry Page is making huge bets on new technology—ingestible nanoparticles, balloons that beam down broadband—that...
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Robot That Moves Like an Inchworm Could Go Places Other Robots Can't
Researchers have developed a soft, worm-like robot that moves similarly to inchworms.
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Google Boosts Turing Award Computing Prize to $1 Million
There's no Nobel prize for computer science, but after a grant from Google, the top award in the field now just as lucrative.
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