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Chicago Computer Scientists Develop Tools to Help Ecologists in Kenya
Computational ecology students at the University of Illinois at Chicago recently traveled to Kenya to conduct experiments using computer technology to collect wildlife...
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Google's Mind the Gap! Program Interests Women in CS
Two-hour sessions with female Google software engineers are convincing many female high-school students in Israel to change their majors to computer science and...
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NASA Map Sees Earth's Trees in a New Light
A NASA-led science team has created an accurate, high-resolution map of the height of Earth's forests.
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Activist-Backed Collaboration Platform Set for March Release
A functional prototype of the Global Square, a social network collaboration platform for activists, will be available by March.
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Best Time For a Coffee Break? There's an App For That
Pennsylvania State University researchers have developed Caffeine Zone, an application that can help people determine when caffeine may give them a mental boost...
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Fbi Seeks Social Media Monitoring Tool
The goal is to use the tool to keep on top of breaking events, incidents and emerging threats, the agency said in a recent Request for Information from IT vendors...
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Flaw Found in an Online Encryption Method
A team of European and American mathematicians and cryptographers have discovered an unexpected weakness in the encryption system widely used worldwide for online...
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Turing's Enduring Importance
Modern computing systems owe a sizable debt to Alan Turing, whose breakthrough work set the direction that the future of computing would take by determining that...
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Traveling Light in a Time of Digital Thievery
When Kenneth G. Lieberthal, a China expert at the Brookings Institution, travels to that country, he follows a routine that seems straight from a spy film.
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The Other Academic Freedom Movement
In the summer of 1991, Paul Ginsparg, a researcher at the Los Alamos nuclear laboratory, set up an email system for about 200 string theorists to exchange papers...
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Protests Erupt Across Europe Against Web Piracy Treaty
More than 25,000 demonstrators recently took part in protests across Europe against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a controversial international anti-piracy...
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The Joy of Checks
Researchers at Newcastle, York, and Northumbria universities have developed a way of making quick and easy electronic transfers while retaining the paper check...
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Syrian Opposition Seeks to Wipe the Assad Name Off the Map--Via Google
Syrian activists are using Google's Map Maker crowdsourcing software to oppose the Assad regime by renaming streets and landmarks after their revolutionary idols...
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Official Underlines Iran's Capability to Counter Cyber Attacks Against N. Facilities
Head of Iran's civil defense organization General Gholam Reza Jalali stressed that the Iranian experts and engineers are capable of countering the enemies' cyber...
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Darpa Dodges Obama Budget Death Ray, Keeps Its $2.8 Billion
For most of the U.S. military's far-flung community of scientists and engineers, Monday was a day to pop a Xanax.
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Log Onto Facebook, Contribute to Scientific Research
Researchers at Victoria University of Wellington, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, and Cardiff University are developing a cloud computing-based Facebook...
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Commercial Drones: A Dogfight at the Faa
Last fall, Russ Freeman's successful business shooting commercial aerial photos and video flew straight into a political battle over control of the nation's skies...
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Turing's Enduring Importance
When Alan Turing was born 100 years ago, on June 23, 1912, a computer was not a thing—it was a person.
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Virtual Internships in Rising Demand
Virtual internships, in which students work for an employer over the Web, increasingly are being offered at college campuses, with advantages for both students...
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