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Eu Funding 'orwellian' AI Plan to Monitor Public For 'abnormal Behavior'
The European Union-funded Project Indect is developing software that monitors and processes information collected from Web sites, discussion forums, file servers...
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City 2.0: It Will Make Cities More Engaging and Energy-Efficient
Cities will be transformed by WiMax, smart grids, social networks, and other emerging technologies, once they are cohesively integrated. WiMax is seen as a critical...
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Turing Award Winner Barbara Liskov to Keynote at Oopsla 2009
This year's ACM conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Appliances (OOPSLA 2009) will be held in Orlando, Fla., from October 25-29. OOPSLA...
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Hamburg Internet Technologists Propose Roadmap For Future Internet Design
Hamburg University of Applied Sciences computer scientists led by professor Thomas Schmidt have received a three-year grant for the Hybrid Adaptive Mobile Multicast...
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White House nveils Cloud Computing Initiative
The Obama administration has introduced a cloud computing policy that aims to lower infrastructure costs and reduce the environmental impact of government computing...
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Software and the Smartphone Will Map Research Across the World
Research from Imperial College London scientists indicates that new smartphone software will help epidemiologists and ecologists in the field analyze data remotely...
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Collaborators Operate Multiple Biomedical Robots from Numerous Sites
Using a new software protocol called the Interoperable Telesurgical Protocol, nine research teams from universities and research institutes around the world recently...
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Internet Pioneer Cerf rges IPv6 Migrations
Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) needs to be implemented now to enable the Internet to continue to grow, Internet pioneer Vinton Cerf said during an event at...
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Google Delivers New Java-Like Language: Noop
Google has developed Noop, a new programming language that runs on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). Google describes Noop as "a new language that attempts to blend...
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Google Acquires Recaptcha
ReCAPTCHA Inc., a spin-off of Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Department, has been acquired by Google Inc. The Pittsburgh company developed online...
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Harris Corp. Funds Tech Internet Pop-p Security Research
Harris Corp. will fund a Florida Institute of Technology (FIT) study on the decisions people make when they see pop-up messages while Internet browsing. Researchers...
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Advanced Fibre-to-the-Home Network Demonstrated in Irish Research Lab
The European Union-funded Photonic Integrated Extended Metro and Access Network (PIEMAN) research project aims to provide fast Internet access across Europe. The...
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Nsf Supported 'cake' Takes It to the Next Level
Florida Atlantic University's College of Engineering and Computer Science has received a five-year grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation to create a...
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Can You Trust Crowd Wisdom?
A researcher who studied the voting patterns on Amazon.com, the Internet Movie Database (IMDb), and the book review site BookCrossings says a small group of users...
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.s. Air Force Funds Super-Fast, Secure Computing
The U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) is supporting University of Michigan (UM) physicists' development of components for quantum computers that...
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Internet Map Questions
The U.S. stimulus package allocated up to $350 million to map out broadband Internet access in the United States for the purpose of guiding broadband expansion...
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How Emerging Wireless Techs Are Transforming Healthcare
Heath care technology researchers are taking advantage of faster wireless networks and developing new "telehealth" sensors and devices as part of a booming new...
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Rome Is Built in a Day, with Hundreds of Thousands of Digital Photos
The ancient city of Rome was not built in a day. It took nearly a decade to build the Colosseum, and almost a century to construct St. Peter's Basilica. But now...
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Gestures Set to Shake p Mobile ser Interfaces
Mobile interface expert Christian Lindholm believes that mobile phones will be transformed in the next few years due to advances in fold-out screens, gesture controls...
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