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Dispute Finder: Making the Call on Web 'facts'
Intel Labs researcher Rob Ennals has developed Dispute Finder, software that highlights inaccurate online information in pink with a link pointing toward a reliable...
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Northeastern Launches Online Master's Degree Program in Information Security
Northeastern University is launching an online graduate degree program in information assurance (IA). The program, which will train students to tackle identity...
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'Light on a Wire' Promises Faster Computing, Communications
A team of European researchers has demonstrated some of the first commercially viable plasmonic devices, paving the way for a new era of high-speed communications...
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Kraken Becomes First Academic Machine to Achieve Petaflop
The National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS), a joint project between the University of Tennessee (UT) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has upgraded...
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New Wi-Fi Spec Challenges Bluetooth
The Wi-Fi Alliance has announced Wi-Fi Direct, a new Wi-Fi specification that supports standard Wi-Fi data rates and enables Wi-Fi-enabled devices within about...
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Harvard's Robotic Bees Generate High-Tech Buzz
Harvard University researchers have received a $10 million U.S. National Science Foundation grant to create a colony of flying robotic bees called RoboBees. The...
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Csi in a Virtual World: Grant Furthers Nc State's Work in Forensic Science
North Carolina State University (NCSU) researchers are using a U.S. National Science Foundation grant to adapt the process used in building video games to help...
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Eight-State Cyber Consortium Gets $2.7 Million Grant
The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded a $2.7 million grant to an eight-state consortium of technology centers and community colleges that is working...
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Smart Grid Information Clearinghouse Portal to be Developed
Virginia Tech has been awarded a $1.25 million five-year contract by the U.S. Department of Energy to develop, manage, and maintain a public Smart Grid Information...
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The Web's Inventor Regrets One Small Thing
Governments around the world have put more of their data on the Web this year than previous years, and the United States and Britain have led the way, said Sir...
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Rewiring Cities For a More Convenient Future
Over the next few years, several Chinese cities aim to add broadband and other services that establish them as "e-cities" or "digital cities." The cities will use...
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$2 Million Grant to Fund Research on Wireless Patient Monitoring
A team of wireless researchers and doctors from Rice University and The Methodist Hospital Research Institute have won a $2 million federal grant to design and...
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Training to Climb an Everest of Digital Data
It is a rare criticism of elite American university students that they do not think big enough. But that is exactly the complaint from some of the largest technology...
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CLA Center Gets $4.5 Million For Role in National Earthquake Simulation Network
UCLA's earthquake center will receive $4.5 million of a $105 million grant given by the U.S. National Science Foundation to Purdue University to spearhead a national...
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Radio Waves 'see' Through Walls
University of Utah engineers showed that a wireless network of radio transmitters can track people moving behind solid walls. The system could help police, firefighters...
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It to Create 2.8 Million Jobs in the Asia Pacific By 2013
Nearly three million jobs are expected to be created by the Asia-Pacific region's information technology (IT) industry by 2013, according to a new IDC study, which...
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Prototype Security Software Blocks Ddos Attacks
Auburn University researchers have developed a software filter that protects computers against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks without bogging down...
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Group Develops a Tool For Sharing Household Multimedia Resources
Computing researchers at the Ontological Engineering Group at the Polytechnic University of Madrid's School of Computing have collaborated with the private companies...
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FCC Chief Promises Industry More Spectrum and Net Neutrality Rules
Despite recent moves by several wireless companies to open their networks, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski says that more rules...
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