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Artificial Intelligence to Tackle Rogue Traders
The University of Sunderland's Computerized Analysis of Stocks and Shares for Novelty Detection of Radical Activities (CASSANDRA) project is developing a software...
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Computers Analyze Fruit-Flies to Find Genes For Aggressive Behavior
California Institute of Technology (Caltech) scientists have trained computers to automatically analyze aggression and courtship in fruit flies, allowing researchers...
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Deep Sky Project Provides a Portal Into Data Universe
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) Center receives about 3,000 astronomical files every night from automated sky scanning systems from around...
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Yahoo! Partners With Top Universities to Advance Cloud Computing Research
Yahoo! has expanded its partnerships with top U.S. universities to advance cloud computing research. The University of California at Berkeley, Cornell University...
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A Step Toward Superfast Carbon Memory
Researchers at the National University of Singapore have made computer memory devices using graphene, a flat sheet of hexagonally arranged carbon atoms capable...
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The Internet's Librarian
Technologist and entrepreneur Brewster Kahle (pictured) wants to produce a free, online corpus of human knowledge called the Internet Archive that is bigger than...
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White House Working Group Releases Strategy for Digital Scientific Data
The United States should develop a strategic policy for digital preservation of and access to scientific data, concludes a report by the National Science and Technology...
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Purdue, Rutgers Will Lead $30 Million U.S. Homeland Security Research Center
Purdue University and Rutgers University will lead an international research and education group in a six-year, $30 million U.S. Department of Homeland Security...
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Self-Directed Robot Scientist Makes Discovery
A robot developed by researchers at the United Kingdom's Aberystwyth University has discovered 12 new functions for genes entirely on its own. "Our goal is to...
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Tool Builds 3-D Map of Disaster Scene
Texas A&M University lab's Robin Murphy (pictured) and colleagues have developed RubbleViewer, a tool for modeling a disaster scene that they say is more efficient...
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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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Top 10 Technology Skills
Although many sectors of the economy are struggling to survive, the information technology (IT) industry is still relatively strong. Employment experts say that...
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Eurosys 2009 Explores Future Computer System Designs
The EuroSys 2009 conference, sponsored by the European chapter of ACM's Special Interest Group on Operating Systems, will focus on computer system research that...
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Inside Hp Labs: 8 Cool Projects
Hewlett-Packard Labs is hosting a number of research projects, including one on sustainable data centers that aims to determine how future data centers can be self...
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ACM Recognizes Computing and Information Technology Leaders
ACM (The Association for Computing Machinery) has announced the winners of three awards honoring significant contributions to the computing and information technology...
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Scholarship Program Targets Need For Cyber Security Skills
The Scholarship for Service (SFS) program, jointly run by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), is becoming a widely...
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The Emerging Science of Dna Cryptography
The massively parallel nature of DNA computing represents a significant threat to existing encryption schemes, but the technology also could be used to encrypt...
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Tapia 2009 Celebration Announces Technical Program
The 2009 Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computer Conference will feature papers, panels, workshops, poster sessions, Birds-of-a-Feather meetings, a doctoral...
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Venture Looks to Deliver Data Via Light Rather Than Wires
Visible light communications is a new data transmission technique in which data is sent to devices via light-emitting diodes (LEDs). The method is being researched...
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