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ACM Launches New Digital Library
More than 50 years of computing literature is augmented, streamlined, and joined to powerful new tools for retrieval and analysis.
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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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Information Theory After Shannon
Purdue University's Science of Information Center seeks new principles to answer the question 'What is information?'
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Chipping Away at Greenhouse Gases
Power-saving processor algorithms have the potential to create significant energy and cost savings.
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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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Rise of the Robot Astronomers
Mount Palomar Observatory's Palomar Transient Factory uses AI to locate variable stars, or transients. "Our grand goal is to remove astronomers from the real-time...
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Smart se of Mobile Phone Power
University of Portsmouth's Mohamed Gaber is researching how smartphones could be combined to quickly collect and process information without using centralized computers...
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'outrageous Ideas' at Cidr: Seeking to Stimulate Innovative Research Directions
The Computing Community Consortium is sponsoring "wacky idea" sessions aimed at identifying major new research opportunities. The program hopes to move beyond...
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Ph.d. Candidate Optimizes New Data Storage Method
The University of Twente's Johan Engelen has optimized a new storage technique by adding another motor which drives a needle that reads bits. The new technique...
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Eu Project to Facilitate Collaboration in Data-Intensive Environments
The European Union's Dicode project is using high-performance computing technologies and data processing methods to facilitate decision making in data-intensive...
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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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Eight Jfk News Conferences Now Available Online in Digital Format
Using audio tapes preserved by the University of North Dakota, eight John F. Kennedy news conferences from the early '60s have been digitized and placed online....
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Project Euclid's Mathjax Displays 'beautiful Math' Online
Project Euclid, an online information community for mathematicians, has implemented MathJax, new technology that presents math attractively and reliably on the...
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Virtual Reality Maps
Images from public photo-sharing sites like Flickr and Google are being used by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington...
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Why Are Health Data Leaking Online? Bad Software, Study Says
A recent Dartmouth College study found that sensitive health care data is being leaked online through peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing services. In addition, the...
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Total Recall: Data Diaries Explain Who You Really Are
The collection, archival, and search of everyday personal experiences that are recorded by cameras and other devices could support the digital diaries envisioned...
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UPC Team Presents a System for Analyzing Information on WikiLeaks
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya researchers have developed DEX, a system for finding information on networks that is designed to complement Internet search...
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Electric Currents Move Racetrack Memory Bits with Precision
The moving bits in the proposed data-storage scheme do not stop and start instantaneously, but their motion is easy to quantify.
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Earth Project Aims to 'simulate Everything'
An international group of scientists are aiming to create a simulator that can replicate everything happening on Earth—from global weather patterns and the spread...
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