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Calculating the Future
Climate researchers have no shortage of scientific issues on which to expend computer power. The biggest problem is choosing which one to tackle first.
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A New Web of Trust
A year after security researchers exposed a flaw in the Domain Name System (DNS), a permanent solution is finally being implemented. The DNSSEC protocol, which...
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Information Architecture For Digital Libraries
The libraries of the 21st century will be Web-based, but the technologies, standards, and architecture that future digital libraries will use are still being defined...
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Google Brings Cross-Language Translation to Search Appliance
Google wants to create greater international interest in a new experimental feature that enables Google Search Appliance (GSA) to translate documents between 34...
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U.S. Not Ready For Cyber Attack
The results of a two-day cyberwar simulation involving 230 representatives from U.S. government defense and security agencies, private companies, and civil groups...
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IBM Labs Promises Five Innovations
IBM researchers' list of promising new technologies includes the ability to "talk" to the Web; information collection and retrieval systems that cover us when we...
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The Fastest Computers Are Going Hybrid
A clearly recognizable trend at the recent SC08 conference in Austin, Texas, was a general shift in supercomputer design toward using multiple types of processors...
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Mobile Phones to Be Primary Internet Device By 2020, Experts Predict
Mobile phones will become the primary Internet device for most people by 2020, largely due to their increasing computing power, predicts the "Future of the Internet...
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W3c pgrades Web Accessibility Standards
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has released version 2.0 of its Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), which are designed to help developers make Web...
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The Next Big Sensation?
Computer scientists are developing machines that enable users to feel digital content. "The world is going digital, but people are analog," says Immersion Corp...
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First Superconducting Transistor Promises Pc Revolution
Andrea Caviglia and colleagues at the University of Geneva in Switzerland have applied a voltage to a single crystal containing strontium titanate and lanthanum...
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Living Machines
Researchers of molecular computing and communication are focusing on the type of breakthroughs needed to make the vision of ultrasmall, biocompatible computers....
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Speed Within Reach at Affordable Prices
Supercomputers have reached new power and performance benchmarks while also increasing their availability to businesses in the past year. In June, IBM's Roadrunner...
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Swapping Your Body Becomes a Virtual Reality
Neuroscientists at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, have used camera technology to create the illusion that a human being has swapped his or her body...
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DARPA Seeks to Mimic in Silicon the Mammalian Brain
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded contracts for the first stage of the Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics...
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10 Microsoft Research Projects
Microsoft is supporting a host of projects in its research and development division that are focused on tackling real-world technical challenges but could haveView...
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Open-Source Developers Set Out Software Road Map for 2020
A group of open source software advocates have published a report that establishes a road map for the software industry through 2020. The report makes several...
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A Human Approach to Computer Processing
University of Nottingham scientists are researching "granular computing," a computer paradigm that examines groups or sets of information, called information granules...
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Quantum Computers Could Excel in Modeling Chemical Reactions
Quantum computers could potentially improve upon the capabilities of conventional computers in modeling and predicting complex chemical reactions, according to...
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