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Spotting Insider Threats on the Front Lines
U.S. Military Academy at West Point cadets are researching ways of using network monitoring tools to automate frontline security.
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Japan Has Shifted 13 Feet!
What does Japan's earthquake mean for GPS? Friday's 9.0-magnitude earthquake was so powerful that it actually widened Japan. While parts of the country barely...
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U.s. Supercomputer Experts Assess Radiation Risks Amid Crisis at Japanese Nuclear Facility
The U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration has enlisted a team of supercomputer experts to measure the radiation risks caused by the Japanese nuclear crisis...
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Quake Moved Japan Closer to U.S. and Altered Earth's Spin
The magnitude-8.9 earthquake that struck northern Japan on Friday not only violently shook the ground and generated a devastating tsunami, it also moved the coastline...
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Crickets Inspire Stealthy Robots to Fire Rings of Air
Monash University's Andy Russell used the African cave cricket, Phaeophilacris spectrum, as inspiration for creating stealth communication between robots.
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A Search Engine for the Human Body
Microsoft researcher Antonio Criminisi has led the development of a search tool that indexes medical images of the human body and automatically finds organs and...
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Planet Mercury Visible Before Nasa Craft Orbits It
Earth is about to get better acquainted with its oddball planetary cousin, Mercury, a rocky wonderland of extremes.
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Silicon Valley's Innovators Take Aim at Your Wallet
Hang on to your wallets and purses. In the constant search for the next thing to disrupt, Silicon Valley's entrepreneurs and venture capitalists believe that...
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Professor Gets Computing's 'Nobel'
Harvard University professor Leslie G. Valiant, an artificial intelligence pioneer, has been awarded ACM's 2010 A.M. Turing Award. Valiant's research was the...
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Armies of Expensive Lawyers, Replaced by Cheaper Software
When five television studios became entangled in a Justice Department antitrust lawsuit against CBS, the cost was immense. As part of the obscure task of "discovery"—providing...
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Turning Augmented Reality Into an Open Standard
A research team at Georgia Tech hopes to make augmented reality on smart phones more useful by developing an open standard for it.
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A Tangled Web of Shortened Links
Link-shortening services may be slowing down parts of the Internet, according to the Foundation for Research and Technology and Microsoft Research. And it might...
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The Quantum Singularity
MIT professor Scott Aaronson and grad student Alex Arkhipov will present a paper at ACM's 43rd Symposium on Theory of Computing that describes an experiment, which...
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Improved Method Developed to Locate Ships in Storms
University of Alcala de Henaresresearchers have developed a system for detecting ships in stormy seas that analyzes radar images by applying an algorithm based...
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The New Police Siren: You
Joe Bader tried setting the two tones of his invention four notes apart on the musical scale, but the result sounded like music, not a siren. Same thing when...
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Grid Pioneer Ian Foster Discusses the Future of Science in the Cloud
University of Chicago professor Ian Foster has a vision to facilitate a transformational change in scientific research, to the point where research capabilities...
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Retooling Algorithms
MIT professor Charles Leiserson says the best method for rewriting algorithms to run on parallel processors is to use a divide-and-conquer technique, allowing the...
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Computer 'Scrapple' Wins Early Career Award
University of California, Davis professor Todd Green is researching ways to improve the use of data warehouses, such as using database query results to generate...
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Hyperlocal Forecasting
Masao Kanamitsu is using the Texas Advanced Computing Center's Ranger supercomputer to conduct downscaling experiments, which involves taking the output from the...
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