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Hackathon Develops Tech Tools to Fight Ebola Epidemic
The University of Oxford earlier this month hosted the Ebola Crisis Hackathon.
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Supercomputing 2014 Recognizes Outstanding Achievements in Hpc
Both novice and veteran researchers were honored for their contributions to high-performance computing at the Supercomputing 2014 (SC14) conference.
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Researchers Advance 'quantum Teleportation'
The world at the quantum level, at the scale of particles too small for the eye to see, is very strange.
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11 Innovators Receive Hpc Excellence Awards
IDC has announced the winners of the eighth round of its HPC Innovation Excellence Award recognizing achievements in high-performance computing.
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Intel Turns to Light Beams to Speed p Supercomputers
Intel has developed a technology that uses optical cables and light pulses to move data in supercomputers.
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Georgia Tech Professor Proposes Alternative to 'turing Test'
Georgia Institute of Technology professor Mark Riedl has developed a more rigorous way to evaluate the intelligence of a computer than the Turing Test.
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Faculty Research Reveals Software Improving in Ability to Analyze, Score Writing
Software for evaluating human writing is improving and expanding in use.
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Researchers Push Supercomputing's Bleeding Edge With Diverse Applications
One of five finalists will be awarded ACM's Gordon Bell Prize today at the SC14 high-performance computing conference in New Orleans.
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Apple and Others Encrypt Phones, Fueling Government Standoff
Smartphone makers' use of technology to encrypt their devices has provoked a standoff with the U.S. government, which sees such measures as impeding law enforcement...
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sing 3D Printers to Print Out Self-Learning Robots
Researchers at Oslo University are developing self-instructing robots using three-dimensional printers.
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Evolution Software Looks Beyond the Branches
PhyloNet is an open source Java-based program that accounts for both the horizontal and vertical inheritance of genetic material among genomes.
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Software to Automatically Outline Bones in X-Rays
Researchers at the University of Manchester are developing software that can automatically pick out the shapes of bones in X-rays.
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Supercomputational Thinking at Sc14
Considering how computational scientists have developed supercomputing technologies, and where it is helping take everyone else.
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Dell Research Works at Intersection of Technology, Customer Needs
The goal of Dell's research unit is to take a long-term view of trends in the industry and decide which ones to act on based on what makes sense.
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DARPA Wants to Toughen-p Wan Edge Networking, Security
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants to improve networking and security at the wide area network edge.
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Penn Engineers Efficiently 'mix' Light at the Nanoscale
Scientists say photonic-based systems could replace electronic systems as a way to make computer components smaller, faster, and less power-hungry.
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IBM Shares Plans For Supercomputing Future
IBM is developing a new supercomputing architecture to boost data processing at the storage, memory, and input/output levels.
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Study Finds Search Engine Poisoning Persistent, Hard to Solve
A new study finds efforts to prevent the manipulation of search results are having little impact on online fraud.
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Self-Repairing Software Tackles Bugs
University of Utah researchers have developed a software suite that can detect and eliminate malware.
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