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Carnegie Mellon Tackles Data Management Maturity Model For Finance
Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute (SEI) and the Enterprise Data Management (EDM) Council are collaborating to create a new data management...
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Epub: The Next Pdf?
EPUB, an XML format for reflowable text made from three open standards, is on its way to becoming an e-book industry standard. The standard, developed by the International...
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Siggraph Announces Winners of New Award Honoring Achievement in Digital Art
Minneapolis College of Art & Design professor Roman Verostko and University of California, Davis professor Lynn Hershman Leeson are the winners of the first ACM...
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Iphone App Predicts Ipv4 Doomsday
Several companies and researchers have offered predictions for when the supply of IPv4 addresses will be exhausted. Hurricane Electric, for example, recently introduced...
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How Networking Is Transforming Healthcare
High-speed computer networks have the potential to transform the healthcare industry, according to Mike McGill, program director for Internet2's Health Sciences...
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Top Designers in Your Own Home?
A Web tool that gives homeowners a virtual representation of how new products look in their home promises to help textile producers boost product development.AsIsKnown...
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Stock Traders Find Speed Pays, in Milliseconds
Practitioners of high-frequency trading use powerful computers to transmit millions of orders at incredible speed, and critics warn that the method could be used...
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Technology on Way to Forecasting Humanity's Needs, Researcher Reports
Much as meteorologists predict the path and intensity of hurricanes, Indiana University's Alessandro Vespignani believes we will one day predict with unprecedented...
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Next-Generation Sound Systems to Minimize Background Noise
The whole listening experience in cars, cinemas, theatres, and even during videoconferences, is likely to improve radically thanks to a new set of tools for application...
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Helping Robots Get a Grip
Columbia University robotics researchers Peter Allan and Matei Ciocarlie have developed a new way to control a dexterous robotic hand. The researchers realized...
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Learning Through Games
Electronic games can inspire players to explore new ideas and concepts. By gaining a better understanding of the dynamic between player and game, researchers hope...
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Korean Government and Georgia Tech Form Platform Partnership
A team of faculty from the Georgia Institute of Technology has formed a historic partnership with the Korean government, industry, and universities to develop a...
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When Robots Invaded the Senate
The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently held a luncheon briefing and open house for U.S. Senate members to demonstrate cyber-physical systems (CPS), an emerging...
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Building Better Automated Workplace Assistants
A key component of modern factories is the flexible production cell – a workstation staffed by a worker with the training and tools to carry out a variety of operations...
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DAC Workshops Focus on Design Techniques, Careers, Emerging EDA Apps
ACM's 46th Design Automation Conference (DAC) will give industry professionals an opportunity to learn more about front- and back-end design issues and to participate...
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In Search For Intelligence, a Silicon Brain Twitches
Blue Brain is a supercomputer-powered software model designed to closely simulate the activity of a rat's neocortical column (NCC) in the hope of gaining insights...
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Technology Offers Virtual Visualization of the Human Body
From a command center resembling the bridge of the Starship Enterprise, doctors at The Methodist Hospital have developed 3-D technology that enables them to view...
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Robo-Bats With Metal Muscles May Be Next Generation of Remote Control Flyers
North Carolina State University (NCSU) researchers are developing a highly maneuverable bat-sized flying robot that could be used for a variety of purposes, including...
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IBM Security Software Masks Confidential Info
IBM researchers have developed Masking Gateway for Enterprises (MAGEN), software that uses optical character recognition and screen scraping technology to identify...
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