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Terrorism in the Age of Technology: Biothreats And?cyber Warfare
While once considered unconventional, cyber attacks and biological warfare have become an increasing threat to security and a tactic of rising concern. Spanning...
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Now We Know Where We Stand, and It's About Time
America has seen its last Lost Generation. Thanks to an invisible armada of incessantly broadcasting satellites, collectively called the Global Positioning System...
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Rutgers Computer Scientists Work to Strengthen Online Security
Rutgers University computer scientists are developing an alternative to online security questions that is designed to be easier for legitimate users and more secure...
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China Plans For Humanoid Olympics
China has announced plans to hold a robot Olympics in 2010, in which humanoid robots will compete in 16 different events ranging from athletics to machine-related...
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ACM Names 84 Distinguished Members for Advances in Computing Technology
ACM has recognized 84 members as 2009 Distinguished Members. The number of honorees has more than doubled from a year ago, and ACM says the increase is a reflection...
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Labor Shortage in It Industry Despite Recession
A new survey by New Zealand's Ministry of Economic Development found a significant shortage of skilled labor in the information technology (IT) industry, despite...
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Validity of Software Patents Goes on Trial at .s. Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court will consider what types of inventions should be eligible for a patent as part of a case that could undermine legal protections for software...
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Green500 Expands Coverage of Energy-Efficient Supercomputers
Virginia Tech's Green500 list is getting a refresh. Since its 2007 debut, the Green500 has ranked only the energy efficiency of the world's 500 fastest performing...
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Adding a Sixth Sense to Your Cellphone
Many Indians bought their first mobile phones before they had their first experiences with personal computers. Pranav Mistry thinks that most of them might also...
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Futurists' Report Acknowledges Dangers of Smart Robots
A forthcoming report from the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) will explore whether robots could eventually become so intelligent...
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Announced Initiatives to Bolster .s. Science and Technology Collaboration With Muslim Communities
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton recently announced new initiatives aimed at promoting science and technology collaboration with Muslim communities...
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Researchers Design Smartphone Games for Elderly Diabetics
Researchers at Saint Louis University (SLU) and Old Dominion University have developed the Chinese Aged Diabetic Assistant (CADA), new smartphone technology that...
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Nsf Awards $20 Million to Sdsc to Develop Shared-Memory Supercomputer
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego has been awarded a five-year, $20 million grant from the U.S. National Science...
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Endowment Fund to Support Ict Research
Australia will continue to serve as a hub for research into wireless technologies as a result of new funding from the Science and Industry Endowment Fund, announced...
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Amir Pnueli, Distinguished Computer Scientist and Researcher, Dies
Amir Pnueli, a professor of Computer Science at New York University and winner of the 1996 ACM A. M. Turing Award, died suddenly on November 2 of a brain hemorrhage...
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Social Networking Meets Ambient Intelligence
Sharing small snippets of information about your daily life is a key feature of the online social networking revolution. Soon status updates and other social information...
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World's First Arabic-Speaking Robot to Serve as Staff in Shopping Malls
A laboratory in the United Arab Emirate has built what it says is the world's first Arabic-speaking robot which could soon go into mass production to serve as staff...
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Microsoft's Mundie: It Needed to Solve Global Woes
Microsoft's Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie gave a speech at Harvard University on Tuesday (Nov. 3) to discuss coming "disruptions" in computing...
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Jumping on the Multi-Bandwagon
When the U.S. Department of Homeland Security put out an "APB" looking for volunteers to test a new radio that allows first responders to talk to one another across...
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