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Creating Resilience For Vehicular Applications
Automotive communications are a major element in the near future of vehicle technology, with applications ranging from variable road sign visualization, to accident...
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Obama Awards National Science, Technology Medals
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama linked scientific discovery to helping the struggling economy Wednesday as he honored those who invented batteries for implanted...
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Terrorists Nearing Ability to Launch Big Cyberattacks Against .S.
U.S. computer networks are most threatened by terrorist organizations that may purchase software code from cybercrooks to hack into sensitive platforms, a possibility...
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Free-Flying Cyborg Insects Steered From a Distance
Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have connected electrodes and radio antennas to the nervous systems of beetles and then were able to control...
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Program Aims to Boost Interest in Technical Careers
Michigan State University (MSU) is creating a program that will better prepare high school students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics...
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Networked Media: More Than Fun and Games
Networked media means a lot to two different groups. To the billions of Web users worldwide, it is the stuff that makes the Web so great — the 3D games, the mobile...
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It Sector to Create 5.8 Million New Jobs By 2013
The global information technology (IT) sector will create 5.8 million new jobs and 75,000 new businesses over the next four years, according to a new Microsoft...
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DARPA Director Visits niversities in Bid to Re-Energize Partnerships
Regina E. Dugan, the new director of the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), is visiting universities across the United States in an attempt...
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Nsf: Federal Role in Academic R&d Funding Has Diminished
A report from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) concludes that the federal government's role in the underwriting of science and engineering research and...
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Scientist Receives NSF Grant to Improve Computer Tools
Carnegie Mellon NewsCarnegie Mellon University's Ole Mengshoel has received a two-year, $498,000 U.S. National Science Foundation grant to develop new computer...
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New ICANN Agreement Runs Into Criticism
There has been some concern that the new agreement between ICANN and the U.S. Department of Commerce will not provide enough accountability. Under the new agreement...
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Cybersecurity On Exhibit: Defending The .s. Online
A panel of officials says the United States is far behind in addressing cyber-security threats. "Taking down the grid for months comes as close to a nuclear attack...
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Betting Exchange Proposed as Means to Valuing Toxic Assets
Alan Holland, a researcher at the Cork Constraint Computation Centre at University College Cork, Ireland, advocates using an online prediction market to value toxic...
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Threat of next world war may be in cyberspace: N
"Cyber war!" flashes on the screen at an Internet security conference. The next world war could take place in cyberspace, the UN telecommunications agency chief...
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Nobel Awarded For Advances in Harnessing Light
The mastery of light through technology was the theme of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics as the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences honored breakthroughs in fiber...
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Itu Sets 'green Ict' Agenda
Information and communications technology (ICT) needs to play a bigger part in helping reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, says Malcolm Johnson, director of...
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Computer Detects Abuse Before Doctors
Ben Reis at Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School led a research team that developed software that could spot warning signs of domestic abuse.
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Protocols Will Test Effects of Rfid on Medical Devices
Radio frequency identification (RFID) systems have found their way into medical environments to track patients, equipment assets and staff members. However, there...
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nix at 40: Hanging on Despite Strong Linux, Windows Challenges
After four decades, the Unix platform is still very important to enterprise information technology and has many years of usefulness left to it, even though Linux...
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