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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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What Motivates Volunteer Computing Contributors? It Depends
Contributors to "volunteer computing" projects such as Wikipedia and Galaxy Zoo are motivated by enjoyment, the desire to 'do good,' to gain knowledge, or by the...
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Tokyo Tech Announces Plans For 2.4 Petaflop Supercomputer
The Tokyo Institute of Technology announced that the TSUBAME 2.0 supercomputer, a green, cloud-based supercomputer system with a top speed of 2.4 petaflops, will...
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Despite Green Diet, Data Centers Still Gobble Power
Despite U.S. government warnings on exploding energy consumption, data centers are not getting more power-efficient.
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Mine Your Business
Researchers are developing new techniques to gauge employee productivity from information flow.
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Straightening Out Heavy Tails
A better understanding of heavy-tailed probability distributions can improve activities from Internet commerce to the design of server farms.
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'digital Genome' Safeguards Dying Data Formats
European researchers have deposited a "digital genome" time capsule inside a data storage facility known as the Swiss Fort Knox, which contains a blueprint that...
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Physicists se Location to Guarantee Security of Quantum Messages
UCLA researchers have developed a type of quantum cryptography, which guarantees that only a person at a certain location can read an encrypted message.
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W3c Launches Xproc Spec
The W3C has released XProc, an XML pipeline specification that "provides a standard framework for composing XML processes [and] streamlines the automation, sequencing...
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Computers Can Effectively Detect Disease-Related Eye Problems
Cost-effective computerized systems can successfully screen diabetic patients to detect early eye problems related to the disease, University of Iowa analysis shows...
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Comments Sought on Guide for Assessing Federal IT Security Controls
NIST has issued the final draft of its Guide for Assessing Security Controls in Federal Information Systems and Organizations and is seeking public comments.
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Virtualization Moves Closer to the Desktop
Virtual computing has moved closer with the unveiling of a new client-based hypervisor that allows users to run multiple virtual machines on a single laptop.
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Improved Online Security for a Tenth of the Cost
Computer scientists in the United Kingdom are developing a system that would offer a high level of security at one-tenth the cost of existing systems using specialized...
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Crumbling Labs Could Clip Nasa's Wings
Years of neglect have left many NASA labs that might be used for breakthrough technology research in rough shape, says a report from the U.S. National Academies...
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The Software Side of Flight Testing the 787 Dreamliner
With nearly 600 hours of testing completed, Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner is in the thick of its nearly year long flight test program. Delays in the program have...
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Computing, Sudoku-Style
Though still in its infancy, the work of Alexey Radul as a postdoc at MIT could someday have consequences for artificial-intelligence research, parallel computing...
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Modeling Human Mobility
Increasingly, cell phones are equipped with GPS locational receivers and their bread crumb trails are opening up entirely new ways to study and predict the dynamics...
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India It Spending to Rise 14 Percent in 2010, Gartner Says
Information technology spending in India will grow by 14 percent in 2010 to $67 billion on higher investments by retail and utility firms and government departments...
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A Report From the Visions and Grand Challenges Conferences
The ACM-BCS Visions of Computer Science 2010 and UKCRC Grand Challenges conferences featured invited plenaries and submitted talks focusing on research visions...
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Sandia Receives National Electronics Reuse/recycling Award
Sandia National Laboratories was one of eight winners among government agency sites competing in the Fiscal Year 2009 Electronics Reuse and Recycling Campaign....
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