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How the Cost of Computation Restricts the Processes of Life
Back in the 1960s, the IBM physicist Rolf Landauer showed that computation comes with a cost: every (irreversible) calculation, he said, always burns through a...
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Google Working on Advanced Web Engineering
InfoWorldGoogle is developing several advanced programming technologies to ease complex Web application development. "We're getting to the place where the WebView...
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Smarter Computing Systems Make Society Better
The High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation project is driving the development of computing systems designed to make everyday life easier, such...
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Cassini Spacecraft For Saturn Moon Pass
The Cassini spacecraft is to make its lowest pass yet over the south pole of Enceladus, an active moon of Saturn which may harbour a liquid water ocean.
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Nasa Probe Offers New View of Mercury: Alien World Right in Our Back Yard
The overheated, underappreciated runt of the solar system is finally getting some attention.
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China's Not-So-Super Computers
The supercomputer in this southern boomtown is named Nebulae for the interstellar clouds of gas that give birth to stars.
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Genius and Tragedy at Dawn of Computer Age
One of the many myths about Apple is that the company's name is a reference to the half-eaten apple reportedly found beside the corpse of the British computer scientist...
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Scale-Out Processors: Bridging the Efficiency Gap Between Servers and Emerging Cloud Workloads
EPFL professor Babak Falsafi recently presented "Clearing the Clouds: A Study of Emerging Workloads on Modern Hardware," which received the best paper award at...
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Robotics Trends For 2012
IEEE's Erico Guizzo and Hizook.com founder Travis Deyle make several predictions regarding what will be big news in robotics this year.
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A Camera That Peers Around Corners
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed a system that can produce recognizable three-dimensional images of objects located around corners...
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Hp Scientists Envision 10-Teraflop Manycore Chip
Hewlett-Packard's research division is developing Corona, a manycore chipset designed to outperform existing average-sized high-performance computing clusters....
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Ccc Launches Nitrd Symposium Website
The CCC recently announced the launch of a Web site that makes available a large corpus of materials from a symposium held Feb. 16 that covered 20 years of coordinated...
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Ietf Explores New Working Group on Identity Management in the Cloud
The Internet Engineering Task Force is considering approving the Simple Cloud Identity Management scheme, which manages user identity in cloud-based applications...
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Tiny Linux Computer Punches Above Its Weight
The $25 Raspberry Pi computer could have an impact far beyond the educational sector, with early production runs showing significant demand for the technology....
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5 Thieves, 5 Cities, 12 Hours: Can Twitter Catch Them?
The U.S. State Department's Tag Challenge will offer a $5,000 prize to anyone who can use Twitter and other social media and online tools to track down five fictional...
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Eavesdropping Antennas Can Steal Your Smart Phone's Secrets
Cryptography Research scientists have developed a method for a standard TV antenna, an amplifier, and specialized software to find the secret key being used by...
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DARPA Robot Sprints to Speed Record
A video on DARPA's Web site shows a four-legged robot reaching a galloping speed of up to 18 miles per hour, which is a new land-speed record for legged robots,...
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Mobile Mayhem
University of Utah researchers are using the University of Tennessee's Cray XT5 Kraken supercomputer to simulate burning and detonation processes in transportable...
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Better Living Through Video Gaming
From AI-designed games to realistic virtual worlds and social physics, gaming is changing our world view.
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