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Stanford Researchers' Audi to Climb Pikes Peak Without a Driver
It can traverse rough terrain, accelerate quickly and negotiate sharp turns like other high-performance sports cars, but there's one thing that sets this Audi coupe...
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Robotc2.0 Gives Students Cross-Platform Robot Programming
Robot programming is many students' first exposure to the world of computer programming. As with so much of the computing world, however, different robot platforms...
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Diamond Chips to Make Meaner, Greener Electronics
Researchers at Japan's AIST have developed synthetic diamonds that could be used to make microchips capable of processing high-powered signals without requiring...
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H.p. Says New Device Could Revolutionize Computer Chips
Hewlett-Packard scientists on Thursday will report advances demonstrating significant progress in the design of a new class of diminutive switches capable of replacing...
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Can We Make a Conscious Machine?
Challenges don't get much bigger than trying to create artificial consciousness. Some doubt if it can be done--or if it ever should. Bolder researchers are notAntonio...
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Glonass: Has Russia's Sat-Nav System Come of Age?
With the Glonass satellite-navigation constellation nearly complete, Russia's plan to wean itself off the US Global Positioning System (GPS) appears to be coming...
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Revolutionary New Solution for Semiconductor & Nano Materials
University of Maryland researchers have developed a new way to generate high quality semiconductor materials essential for advanced microelectronics and nanotechnology...
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Braille Displays Promise to Deliver the Web to the Blind
The Web's wealth of information would lose some of its luster if you read it only one line at a time. Yet this is exactly how blind and other vision-impaired...
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Boston University Engineers Trying to Improve UAVs
Boston University engineers are implementing a theoretical approach to optimize automated mission control, which describes mid-level control approaches that go...
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Speedier Bug Catching
Engineers have developed new transistors that can locate hardware bugs in a fraction of the time it takes to perform normal debugging.
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Babbage Nanomachine Promises Low-Energy Computing
Boston University researchers have created a nanoscale mechanical logic gate that could form the basis of tiny mechanical computers, descendants of Babbage's mechanical...
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Hp Demos Rollup Flexible Displays
Hewlett-Packard (HP) researchers have developed display screens that are printed on flexible plastic sheets of mylar material that could be easily rolled during...
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Paintable Electronics? Nist Studies Spray-On Manufacturing of Transistors
A multidisciplinary research team at NIST has found that an organic semiconductor may be a viable candidate for creating large-area electronics, such as solar cells...
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Copying Plant Anatomy Promises New Photovoltaics
University of Massachusetts Amherst chemists have identified a new polymer-based method inspired by plant anatomy and photosynthesis for creating photovoltaic devices...
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Nist Racetrack Ion Trap Is a Contender in Quantum Computing Quest
Physicists at NIST have built and tested a device for trapping ions that potentially could process dozens at once with the most versatile control of any trap demonstrated...
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Energy Dashboard Helps csd Campus Curb Appetite For Power
After an extensive period of testing, researchers this week have launched an Internet portal to showcase the real-time measurement and visualization of energy use...
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A Tiny Defect That May Create Smaller, Faster Electronics
Researchers at the University of South Florida have developed a technique to turn defects in graphene into tiny metallic wires.
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Scientists Achieve New World Record in Energy-Efficient Data Processing
Computer scientists from Frankfurt's Goethe University and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have set a new world record in energy-efficient data processing...
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Multicore Requires Os Rework, Windows Architect Advises
The basic architecture of modern operating systems may need to be rethought in order to accommodate multicore processors, according to a recent presentation at...
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