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New Malicious Program by Creators of Stuxnet Is Suspected
The designers of Stuxnet, the computer worm that was used to vandalize an Iranian nuclear site, may have struck again, security researchers say.
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The Quest For the Holy Grail of Storage
The cloud has a big problem on its hands: Cloud storage is failure-prone, slow, and infinitely quirky.
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Microsoft Embraces Elephant of Open Source
It took more than three years, but Microsoft has finally learned to stop worrying and love Hadoop.
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Supercomputing's Exascale Arms Race
The United States wants to achieve exaflop speeds for supercomputing, but China, the European Union, India, Japan, and Russia also have set their sights on exascale...
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Mass. Schools Team Up For Supercomputer Center
The Massachusetts Green High Performance Computer Center aims to capitalize on the huge boost in the amount of computer power available for academic research.
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Computational Model of Peace Predicts Social Violence, Harmony
New England Complex Systems Institute researchers have developed a computational model that analyzes census data to identify potential areas of civil violence,...
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Dennis Ritchie: The Shoulders Steve Jobs Stood On
The tributes to Dennis Ritchie won’t match the river of praise that spilled out over the web after the death of Steve Jobs. But they should.
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The Singularity Isn't Near
Futurists like Vernor Vinge and Ray Kurzweil have argued that the world is rapidly approaching a tipping point, where the accelerating pace of smarter and smarter...
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Pr2 Can Now Fetch You a Sandwich From Subway
Researchers from the University of Tokyo and Technische Universitat Munchen have given a robot common sense.
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Progress in Quantum Computing, Qubit by Qubit
Harvard University researchers have developed a method for capturing light in tiny diamond pillars embedded in silver, releasing a stream of single photons at...
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What Did Steve Jobs Do For Computer Science?
Beyond a mind-bending array of business, societal, and technological accomplishments, there’s an often-overlooked side to Steve Jobs and Apple. The company’s contributions...
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Dennis Ritchie, C Creator and nix Developer, Has Passed Away
Dennis Ritchie, creator of the C programming language and developer of UNIX, has passed away at the age of 70.
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Physicists to Develop New Way of Electronic Computing
University of California, Riverside researchers are developing a new way of computing designed to accelerate applications that process large amounts of data, such...
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In Supercomputing, a Turn to Energy-Saving Graphics Chips
In computing, as in so many fields, the best path to progress is often not a straight line.
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Ibm Projects It Will Have World
IBM isn't resting on its laurels as the newly crowned second-most valuable technology company in the world.
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Rice Physicists Move 1 Step Closer to Quantum Computer
Rice University researchers have developed an electron superhighway that could be used to build a quantum computer.
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Ieee Conference Keynoters Lay Out Path to Exascale Computing
Three keynote speakers addressed the challenges of exascale computing at the recent IEEE Cluster 2011 conference, and described the obstacles and opportunities...
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Playboy Interview: Steven Jobs (1985)
If anyone can be said to represent the spirit of an entrepreneurial generation, the man to beat for now is the charismatic cofounder and chairman of Apple Computer...
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Students Building Satellite That's Seen as Future of Space Research
University of California, Berkeley students and researchers are developing CubeSat for Ions, Neutrals, Electrons & MAgnetic fields, a small satellite that could...
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