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Behind-the-Scenes with Ibm's 'jeopardy!' Computer, Watson
His name is Watson. He's bad with puns. Great at math. And, next week, he will compete on the game show "Jeopardy!" against real, live, breathing, thinking humans...
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Mind vs. Machine
In the race to build computers that can think like humans, the proving ground is the Turing Test—an annual battle between the world’s most advanced artificial...
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Rediscovering Wwii's Female 'computers'
In all the interviews and conversations, it hadn't come up. To the sisters, it was just a job they'd held a long time ago, when they were teens with a talent...
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What Is Artificial Intelligence?
In the category "What Do You Know?," for $1 million: This four-year-old upstart the size of a small R.V. has digested 200 million pages of data about everything...
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Hackers Harness Microsoft's Kinect For Business and Pleasure
Gamers and hackers could control the office as well as games with Microsoft's Kinect.
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Wary of Egypt nrest, China Censors Web
In another era, China’s leaders might have been content to let discussion of the protests in Egypt float around among private citizens, then fizzle out.
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Intel
Intel Corp. surprised investors Monday with news that it has found a design flaw found in a support chip that works with its ballyhooed new chip, code-named Sandy...
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Intel Spreads Its niversity Research Bets
Computing in general is increasingly applying the old engineering dictum, divide and conquer. Look at the engines behind cloud computing—vast, distributed armies...
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Following the Crowd
Crowdsourcing is based on a simple but powerful concept: Virtually anyone has the potential to plug in valuable information.
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Maurice Wilkes: The Last Pioneer
Computer science has lost not only a great scientist, but an important link to the electronic computing revolution that took place in the 1940s.
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Grin Plasmonics: A Practical Path to Superfast Computing
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and UC Berkeley researchers have completed the first experimental demonstration of gradient index (GRIN) plasmonics, a technology...
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The Fantastical Promise of Reversible Computing
University of South Florida researchers are studying computation that takes place in steps that are time reversible, known as reversible computing, as a way to...
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3D Tv? How About Holographic Tv?
Using a single Xbox Kinect and standard graphics chips, MIT researchers demonstrate the highest frame rate yet for streaming holographic video.
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Apple: Disrupt or Perish
While the secret for Apple's success seems patently obvious to most&meash;as obvious as the form and function of the iPhone 4—a more subtle reason is the company's...
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Nist Advances Single Photon Management For Quantum Computers
The quantum computers of tomorrow might use photons to move around the data they need to make calculations, but photons are tricky to work with. Two new papers...
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In Pursuit of Qubits, Uniting Subatomic Particles By the Billions
In a step toward a generation of ultrafast computers, physicists have used bursts of radio waves to briefly create 10 billion quantum-entangled pairs of subatomic...
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Bending and Stretching Classroom Lessons to Make Math Inspire
At the aptly named Tiny Thai restaurant here, a small table, about two and a half feet square, was jammed with a teapot, two plates of curry, a bowl of soup,...
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Ncsu Researchers Develop 'unified' Computer Memory Device
Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a double floating-gate field effect transistor, a "unified" device which can perform both volatile...
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First Silicon Entanglement Will Aid Quantum Computing
The state of entanglement has been created in silicon for the first time. The feat could lead to quantum computers made like ordinary computer chips.
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