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Obama to Name Chief of Cybersecurity
Nearly seven months after highlighting the vulnerability of banking, energy and communications systems to Internet attacks, the White House on Tuesday is expected...
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Disentangling a Billion Dollar Opportunity
Leading representatives from academia, government, and industry recently met at the Institute of Physics to discuss the most recent advances in quantum information...
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Cyber Challenge Tests Nation's Top Hackers
With the coolness of a card shark at the final table of the World Series of Poker, Matt Bergin pulls the hood of his brown sweatshirt over his head and concentrates...
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Complex Integrated Circuits Made of Carbon Nanotubes
Stanford University researchers have developed the first three-dimensional (3D) carbon nanotube circuits. Three-dimensional nanotube circuits could be a major...
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Amir Pnueli: Ahead of His Time
Remembering a legacy of practical and theoretical innovation.
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Insurgents Hack .s. Drones
Militants in Iraq have used $26 off-the-shelf software to intercept live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones, potentially providing them with information they...
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Google Collaborates With D-Wave on Possible Quantum Image Search
Google has developed new search technology that recognizes images significantly faster than the computers currently used in its data centers. The image search...
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niversity of Toronto Physicists Lay the Groundwork for Cooler, Faster Computing
Researchers at the University of Toronto (UT) have discovered new behaviors of light that could lead to faster optical information processing and compact computers...
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A Deluge of Data Shapes a New Era in Computing
In a speech given just a few weeks before he was lost at sea off the California coast in January 2007, Jim Gray, a database software pioneer and a Microsoft researcher...
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Physicist Thinks Small and Big with Cern Large Hadron Collider Research
New York City College of Technology Physics Professor Giovanni Ossola is currently developing a new tool that will lead to more precise computations involving the...
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Locating Ieds with Scare Technology
University of Maryland researchers have developed and successfully tested new computer software and computational techniques to analyze patterns of improvised explosive...
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Popeye, the Robot with Brains Not Brawn
European researchers have developed a new approach to artificial intelligence that could empower computers to respond intelligently to human behaviour as well as...
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Breakthrough in 'spintronics' Can Lead to Energy Efficient Chips
Scientists from the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology at University of Twente, and from the FOM Foundation, have successfully transferred magnetic information...
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At a Loss For Words? Google Offers Search By Sight
Google's first search engine let people search by typing text onto a Web page. Next came queries spoken over the phone. On Monday, Google announced the ability...
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Gallium Nitride Transistor Could One Day Power Laptops, Cars
A Cornell researcher has created an extremely efficient transistor made from a material that may soon replace silicon as king of semiconductors for power applications...
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Mathematical Models Could Track Gossip, and Terrorists
Thanks to the Internet and online social networks (OSNs) news and gossip now spread seemingly without any order. But according Ryerson University researcher Anthony...
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Researchers Show Brain Waves Can 'write' on a Computer
Neuroscientists at the Mayo Clinic campus in Jacksonville, Fla., have demonstrated how brain waves can be used to type alphanumerical characters on a computer screen...
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Squeezing Web Sites Onto Cellphones
When a group of engineers at National Instruments Corp. modified a 1988 Oldsmobile so it could be controlled by an iPhone, the company was quick to share the project...
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New Algorithms For Computerized, Large-Scale Surveillance
The U.S. Air Force has adapted the advanced algebraic theories of mathematicians Myoung An and Richard Tolimieri to improve its object and target detection technology...
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