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The MIT Roots of Google
Google’s App Inventor, which lets people with no previous programming experience build applications for mobile phones, draws on decades of MIT research.
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Flawed Proof shers In Era of Wikimath
His prospects of answering one of the biggest questions in mathematics may be fading, but Vinay Deolalikar of Hewlett-Packard Labs in Palo Alto, California, may...
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Daniel Spielman Wins 2010 Rolf Nevanlinna Prize
Daniel Spielman of Yale University, New Haven, CT, has been chosen for the 2010 Rolf Nevanlinna Prize "for smoothed analysis of Linear Programming, algorithms...
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Atom Images Raise Quantum Computer Hopes
Fast quantum computers made of atoms trapped by beams of light could be a step closer, thanks to the first images of the individual atoms in such a grid.
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What Does 'p vs. Np' Mean For the Rest of Us?
A proposed "proof" is probably a bust—but even failed attempts can advance computer science.
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An Implantable Antenna
A prototype silk biosensor could someday alert doctors to signs of disease.
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How Much Smaller Can Chips Go?
Seven of the finest minds Intel can muster are lined up on stage, ready to take questions from a pack of visibly intimidated European journalists.
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Finding Our Way with Digital Bread Crumbs
A Microsoft research project explores whether sensors in mobile devices could help us navigate without GPS.
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Innovation Could Bring Super-Accurate Sensors, Crime Forensics
Purdue researchers have developed technology that enables microelectromechanical systems to self-calibrate, which they say could lead to super-accurate sensors...
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Researchers Control Collective Spin States Electrically at Room Temperature
Physicists at the University of Nebraska Lincoln have changed the orientation of a large number of electron spins collectively at room temperature by pure electrical...
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Step 1: Post Elusive Proof. Step 2: Watch Fireworks.
The potential of Internet-based collaboration was vividly demonstrated this month when complexity theorists used blogs and wikis to pounce on a claimed proof for...
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Tide Turns Against Million-Dollar Maths Proof
Initially hailed as a solution to the biggest question in computer science, the latest attempt to prove P ≠ NP—otherwise known as the "P vs NP" problem—seems to...
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Riders on a Swarm
Mimicking the behaviour of ants, bees and birds started as a poor man’s version of artificial intelligence. It may, though, be the key to the real thing.
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Hiding Files in Flickr Pics Will Fool Web Censors
Life is about to become more difficult for countries trying to censor access to foreign Websites. A system dubbed Collage will allow users in these countries...
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Gesture-Based Computing Takes a Serious Turn
Call me a creature of habit, but I approach any new computer interface with a sense of apprehension.
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Deolalikar Responds To Issues About His P?np Proof
Vinay Deolalikar is standing by his P≠NP claim and proof. He has updated his paper several times in an effort to answer some questions that have been raised about...
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Nasa's Chief Technologist Seeks to Develop Transformative Programs
When Bobby Braun was a Ph.D. student in aeronautics and astronautics at Stanford, he couldn't imagine holding the "dream job" he's doing now—NASA's chief technologist...
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Dual Antennas Would Boost Cell-Phone Signals
New design would mean fewer dropped calls, longer battery life.
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'god Couldn't Do Faster': Rubik's Cube Mystery Solved
It has taken 15 years to get to this point, but it is now clear that every possible scrambled arrangement of the Rubik's cube can be solved in a maximum of 20...
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