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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Parallel Course
In 1995, a good computer chip had a clock speed of about 100 megahertz. Seven years later, in 2002, a good computer chip had a clock speed of about three gigahertz...
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Researchers Help Ensure Security of Military Logistics
University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) professor Bhavani Thuraisingham, director of UTD's CyberSecurity Research Center, believes it is possible to establish data...
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Exploring New Frontiers
The Expeditions in Computing program provides scientists with the funding to work on ambitious, often multidisciplinary research.
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Implementing Electronic Medical Records
Despite a number of challenges, patients' medical records are slowly making the transition to the digital age.
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Electronic Paper's Next Chapter
The technological challenge for researchers working on the next generation of electronic paper is to render color as brightly as traditional paper, without increasing...
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Deep Data Dives Discover Natural Laws
Computer scientists have found a way to bootstrap science, using evolutionary computation to find fundamental meaning in massive amounts of raw data.
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New Software Could Smooth Supercomputing Speed Bumps
Supercomputers have long been an indispensable, albeit expensive, tool for researchers who need to make sense of vast amounts of data. One way that researchers...
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Field Experiment on a Metropolitan Quantum Cryptography Network
The University of Science and Technology of China recently demonstrated a metropolitan quantum cryptography network (QCN) for use by the government in Wuhu, China...
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Merging Video With Maps
Microsoft and researchers from the University of Konstanz in Germany are collaborating to create Videomap, navigation software that incorporates videos of driving...
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Researchers Save Electricity With Low-Power Processors and Flash Memory
During ACM's recent Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Intel Labs Pittsburgh won the best paper award for...
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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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A View From the 2009 European Computer Science Summit
A recurring theme at Informatics Europe's recent European Computer Science Summit 2009, which took place Oct. 8-9 in Paris, was the concern that the European scientific...
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Why Desktop Multiprocessing Has Speed Limits
Despite the mainstreaming of multicore processors for desktops, not every desktop application can be rewritten for multicore frameworks, which means some bottlenecks...
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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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Creating Resilience For Vehicular Applications
Automotive communications are a major element in the near future of vehicle technology, with applications ranging from variable road sign visualization, to accident...
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Free-Flying Cyborg Insects Steered From a Distance
Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have connected electrodes and radio antennas to the nervous systems of beetles and then were able to control...
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Rim and Nserc Invest in Queen's Expertise
Software engineering techniques for very large data systems will be the focus of research at Queen's University in Canada, which has received a $5 million investment...
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nix at 40: Hanging on Despite Strong Linux, Windows Challenges
After four decades, the Unix platform is still very important to enterprise information technology and has many years of usefulness left to it, even though Linux...
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Gaming Tech Aids Scientists Building Virtual Synthetic Chromatophore
Researchers are relying on graphics processing units to help build a highly complex computer simulation depicting how chromatophore proteins create photosynthesis...
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