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Techies Take on Port Authority's Data For Path Stations in 'hackathon'
Code of Jersey City recently held its second all-day Hackathon.
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Army Research Lab Lays Out Hpc Strategy
The U.S. Army Research Laboratory is utilizing supercomputing and large-scale analytics to maintain its position as the country's top laboratory for land forces...
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How Safe Are Perl, Php, and Ruby? The Experts Weigh In
Many developers of programming languages are quick to defend the security of their language.
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S Government and Private Sector Developing 'precrime' System to Anticipate Cyber-Attacks
The USA's Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) is soliciting the involvement of the private and academic sectors in developing a new 'precrime'...
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How the Military Will Fight Isis on the Dark Web
The Dark Web is not so much a place as it is a method of achieving a level of anonymity online.
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Professor Develops Tool to Speed Data Collection
The Computer Assisted Neighborhood Visual Assessment System is a Web application that helps accelerate the collection of research data.
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Game-Playing Software Holds Lessons For Neuroscience
DeepMind, the Google-owned artificial-intelligence company, has revealed how it created a single computer algorithm that can learn how to play 49 different arcade...
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Surprise! America Already Has a Manhattan Project For Developing Cyber Attacks
"What we really need is a Manhattan Project for cybersecurity." It's a sentiment that swells up every few years in the wake of some huge computer intrusion—most...
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The Four Main Roadblocks Holding p Self-Driving Cars
There are four major obstacles facing developers of autonomous vehicles.
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More Watchful Eye Needed on 'dark Web' and Cybercriminal Activities, Notes New Paper
New research calls for increased monitoring of the Dark Web by security researchers and government investigators.
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Spy Research Agency Is Building Psychic Machines to Predict Hacks
The U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity is working on a new contest aimed at creating a system to predict cyberthreats a network may face ahead...
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What Clever Robots Mean For Jobs
For a long time economists maintained that new technology would not result in a net loss of jobs, but some economists now think the situation is more nuanced than...
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Building a Face, and a Case, on Dna
There were no known eyewitnesses to the murder of a young woman and her 3-year-old daughter four years ago. No security cameras caught a figure coming or going.
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This Is Your Avatar Speaking
Last year, in a lab at the University of Barcelona, an anonymous woman was fitted with headphones, a microphone, a head-mounted virtual-reality display, a motion...
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Tracing Languages Back to Their Earliest Common Ancestor Through Sound Shifts
A new statistical technique can detect when changes to words' pronunciations most likely occurred in the history of related languages.
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Experts: Infrastructure 'legitimate Target' in Battle For Cyber Supremacy
The leaders of the U.S. Defense Department, National Security Agency, and Cyber Command have all warned of the potential for a cyber 9/11.
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Computer Science and Espn: Sports and Technology Collide
Christine Chung helped develop the K-Zone effect system, a computer-generated, on-screen rectangular box that serves as a strike zone for those watching TV.
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Computer Scientists' App Measures Our Online Footprints
A new app can assess how well someone's online persona matches their true nature.
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Document Reveals Growth of Cyberwarfare Between the .S. and Iran
A newly disclosed National Security Agency document illustrates the striking acceleration of the use of cyberweapons by the United States and Iran against eachnuclear...
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