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Ayasdi: Stanford Math Begets a Data Company
Like most of his peers, Gunnar Carlsson spends his time thinking about hairy, theoretical math problems.
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IBM Predicts Cognitive Systems as New Computing Wave
IBM expects cognitive computing systems to usher in a new era of computing by being capable of learning and adapting through their mimicry of human senses. Some...
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MIT Scientists Achieve Molecular Data Storage Breakthrough
MIT researchers have developed a method for storing data on individual molecules at room temperature, which could lead to a 1,000-fold improvement in storage density...
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IBM Predicts Cognitive Systems As New Computing Wave
At year's end, IBM selects a new innovation that has the potential to change the world.
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Goodbye Silicon, Hello Dna. The Future of Data Storage?
One night a few years ago, two biologists sat in a bar in Hamburg, discussing DNA.
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Military Moves Closer to Truly Autonomous Drones
Imagine a flying machine equipped with bombs and missiles, navigating the skies stealthily without human control.
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Storing Data in Individual Molecules
Moore's law—the well-known doubling of computer chips' computational power every 18 months or so—has been paced by a similarly steady increase in the storage capacity...
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The Trouble With Tinkering Time
It's the latest R&D trend: penciling in tinkering time on the company clock.
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Research Update: Multiple Steps Toward the 'quantum Singularity'
Four groups of researchers recently reported the completion of an experiment that involves generating individual photons and synchronizing their passage through...
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Graphene: Patent Surge Reveals Global Race
Latest figures show a sharp rise in patents filed to claim rights over different aspects of graphene since 2007, with a further spike last year.
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The Future According to Google's Larry Page
When Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO of WPP Group, the giant advertising agency, visited Google this past fall, CEO Larry Page sent a car to pick him up at the Rosewood...
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New 2-D Material for Next Generation High-Speed Electronics
Researchers at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization and RMIT University have developed a two-dimensional material they say could revolutionize...
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World's First Demonstration of Bit Commitment Performed at CQT
Computer scientists and quantum optics researchers at the University of Singapore's Center for Quantum Technologies have demonstrated secure bit commitment, a communication...
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What Turned Jaron Lanier Against the Web?
I couldn't help thinking of John Le Carré's spy novels as I awaited my rendezvous with Jaron Lanier in a corner of the lobby of the stylish W Hotel just off Union...
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Never-Before-Seen Stage of Planetary Birth Revealed
Astronomers studying a newborn star have caught a detailed glimpse of planets forming around it, revealing a never-before seen stage of planetary evolution.
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Visionary Images: The Lost Fractals of Benoît Mandelbrot
Many people know Benoît Mandelbrot from the computer screensavers of a pre-LCD era. Others have a deeper understanding of his mathematics, the repeating geometries...
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Scientists Construct First Map of How the Brain Organizes Everything We See
Our eyes may be our window to the world, but how do we make sense of the thousands of images that flood our retinas each day?
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Classical Computing Embraces Quantum Ideas
Someday, quantum computers may be able to solve complex optimization problems, quickly mine huge data sets, simulate the kind of physics experiments that currently...
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Proving the Need For Quantum Computers
University of Queensland researchers aim to prove the need for quantum computers by finding a problem that can be mathematically proven to be unsolvable by classical...
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