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Could Quantum Mathematics Shake Up Google?
Pedro Carpena, a physicist at the University of Malaga in Spain, has used a mathematical technique for studying disorder in quantum systems to extract keywords...
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Keep On Spinning
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Materials Science Division researchers have made a major advancement in spintronics by controlling the spin states of highly...
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Quantum Computers Will Require Complex Software to Manage Errors
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) theorists have demonstrated that a type of software operation, believed to be a solution to the fundamental...
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Virus-Built Battery Could Power Cars, Electronic Devices
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers led by professor Angela Belcher have developed batteries by genetically engineering viruses to build the...
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Move Over, Newton: Scientifically Ignorant Computer Derives Natural Laws From Raw Data
Cornell University researchers have developed an algorithm that can identify regularities in the natural world that represent natural laws. The researchers tested...
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Recent Research Tackles the Complexity of Self-Awareness
Researchers at the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid's School of Computing are using modular neural networks to model cognitive functions related to awareness and...
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A New Step Towards Quantum Computers
Researchers from Dortmound, St. Petersburg, Washington, and the Rurh-Universitaet-Bochum (RUB) in Germany have succeeded in aligning electron spin. The researchers...
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Mathematical System Helps to Cut Bus Journey Times
Researchers from the University of Burgos (UBU) have used heuristic algorithms and the "taboo search" method to improve bus service in Burgos, Spain. The approach...
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Acm Awards Recognize Innovators Who Solve Real World Problems
ACM has announced the winners of five prestigious awards honoring innovations in computing technology that benefit society through their profound impact on the...
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ACM Turing Award Goes to Creator of Influential Innovations in Computer Software Design
ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named Barbara Liskov of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) the winner of the 2008 ACM A.M. Turing...
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Swedish Research Can Make Super Mario More Realistic
Thomas Larsson, a researcher at Sweden's Malardalen University, has developed a new approach for calculating collisions involving animated objects in computer games...
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Researchers Discover a Potential On-Off Switch For Nanoelectronics
Berkeley Lab News CenterResearchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Columbia University have demonstrated that electrical...
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Excited Atoms Advance Quantum Computing
National Science FoundationThe dream of quantum computing has come a step closer to reality through National Science Foundation-funded research into atomic manipulation...
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The Evolution of Virtualization
Virtualization is moving out of the data center and making inroads with mobile computing, security, and software delivery.
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Nsf Looking For Wicked Cool Visual and Data Analysis Algorithms
The National Science Foundation (NSF) wants to develop highly interpretive mathematical and computational algorithms and techniques to help the U.S. government...
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Collaboration of Soloists Makes the Best Science
For the success of a major research university, which is better: large, well-funded laboratory empires with many investigators working toward the same end, or the...
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Quantum Computers Could Excel in Modeling Chemical Reactions
Quantum computers could potentially improve upon the capabilities of conventional computers in modeling and predicting complex chemical reactions, according to...
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Berkeley Lab Team Wins Special ACM Gordon Bell Prize For Algorithm Innovation
ACM's Gordon Bell Prize for special achievement in high performance computing has been won by a team of researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence...
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