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U.S. Announces Significant Steps in Smart Grid Development
On May 18, 2009, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced significant progress that will help expedite development of a...
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Wisconsin tility Testing Online Energy Monitors
A Wisconsin utility is joining an energy-efficiency initiative that allows customers to monitor their home's power use online, through an iGoogle gadget. Google's...
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Boost For Future Broadband Speeds
Building the pieces of future ultra-fast broadband networks is the focus of a new initiative of the U.K. government. Local firms have received approximately 1...
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Chink in Encryption Armor Discovered
Researchers from the Information Security Group (ISG) at Royal Holloway, University of London have discovered an underlying flaw in the OpenSSH encryption protocol...
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Msu Computer Scientist Wins Nsf Grant For Wireless Tech Research
Montana State University (MSU) professor Jian Tang has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to continue his research in wireless communications...
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Bots vs. Smugglers: Drug Tunnel Smackdown
New software developed at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) is being used with semi-autonomous robots in the war against drug smuggling. The software can be...
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Are Computers Transforming Humanity?
Researchers and technologists agree that computer technology is fueling significant changes in individuals and society as a whole, and the endpoint is unknown.
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Siggraph to Showcase Breakthroughs in Haptics, Robotics, and Gaming
ACM SIGGRAPH 2009's Emerging Technologies will feature demonstrations and juried interactive installations from numerous fields, including alternative displays,...
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Grid Browser Finds the Meaning of Life
The European Union-funded Sealife project has developed a Web browser capable of understanding the technical terms used in life sciences and automatically finding...
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Researchers Aim For Cloud Standard
The development of a framework for building cloud computing infrastructure could improve high-performance computing services from the Internet to multiple clients...
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ACM Group Honors Researchers Whose Zig-Zag Graph Aids Computer Network Designs
ACM's Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computing Theory (SIGACT) and the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science have awarded the Godel Prize...
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New Wave of Apps Build 'where' Into the Web
You just landed in Seattle for a meeting later this afternoon. But first, you've got to pick up your rental car, grab a hot cup of coffee and probably spend a fair...
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Technology to 'watch Over' Vulnerable Road Users
The European WATCH-OVER Project has developed a system capable of monitoring vulnerable road users (VRUs) that features a pre-crash system and a warning system....
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City 2.0: Using Tech Building Blocks in Tomorrow's Urban Centers
Ubiquitous wireless networks, sustainable data centers, the development of the smart energy grid, and the commonality of city-supplied social networks are bringing...
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A Third Dimension for Mobile Phones
Three-dimensional (3D) television and film has been a niche application partly because of cost, but mobile devices equipped with simpler and less expensive 3D technology...
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Content Control
Entertainment businesses say digital rights management prevents the theft of their products, but access control technologies have been a uniform failure when it...
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Micromedicine to the Rescue
Medical researchers have long dreamed of "magic bullets" that go directly where they are needed. Now micromedicine and nanotechnology are making a range of molecules...
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Is the U.S. Ready For Government-Sponsored Cyberattacks?
A recently published report from the National Research Council (NRC) contends that there has to be more public disclosure and informed debate about cyberarms and...
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House Passes Bill to Strengthen Planning, Coordination of It R&d
The U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 2020, the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Act of 2009 by a voice vote on Tuesday (May...
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