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Smart Homes
Case Western Reserve University researchers are preparing to launch an 18-month project that will transform 104 homes in impoverished Cleveland neighborhoods into...
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Lean, Green Machines
Designers of the German supercomputers that won the latest Green500 prize, which rewards not just computing power but energy efficiency, did not set out to win...
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A Translator Tool With a Human Touch
Nearly 100 IBM researchers are working on n.Fluent, a project to create an automatic translation tool that is fast and accurate enough to be used in instant-messaging...
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Medibots: The World's Smallest Surgeons
A man lies comatose on an operating table. The enormous spider that hangs above him has plunged four appendages into his belly. The spider, made of white steel,...
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White House Pushes Science and Math Education
U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday (November 23) announced Educate to Innovate, a campaign to enlist companies and nonprofit groups to donate time and money...
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Tim Berners-Lee Launches 'www Foundation' at Igf 2009
Sir Tim Berners-Lee used the recent Internet Governance Forum to announce the launch of the World Wide Web Foundation, which he says will be an incubator for transformative...
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Shared Supercomputing and Everyday Research
Recent advancements in supercomputer design coupled with falling prices are breaking down the barriers that have traditionally surrounded computing-intensive research...
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Equal Opportunities Through Technology Education
Academy of FinlandThe international Understanding and Providing a Developmental Approach to Technology Education (UPDATE) project is studying more effective methods...
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German Research Computer Qpace Is the Most Energy Efficient in the World
At the recent SC09 supercomputing conference, the QCD Parallel Computing on the Cell (QPACE) was recognized as the world's most energy-efficient supercomputer....
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Self-Policing Cloud Computing
Researchers at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center and IBM Research-Zurich have developed a cloud computing security system that makes elements of the cloud act...
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Southampton's World-Class Supercomputer Opens Windows
The University of Southampton's new supercomputer was ranked 74th on the Top500 supercomputer list and is the fastest university-owned supercomputer in England....
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Building the Smart Home Wirelessly
Researchers at Taiwan's National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) say that radio tags, combined with mobile communication devices, could provide seamless smart home...
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Are Nations Paying Criminals for Botnet Attacks?
Countries that want to disrupt other nations' government, banking, and media resources can simply hire cybercriminals to launch botnet attacks, according to new...
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Tai Xue-Cheng Wins Feng Kang Prize in Scientific Computing
Tai Xue-Cheng, a specialist in numerical analysis and computational mathematics at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), has been named the winner of the 8th...
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Tech Innovation Program Seeks Comments on Potential Future Funding Areas
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is asking for public comment on four white papers that outline potential areas for research funding grants...
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Global Study Reveals Role of It in Strategic Efforts to Combat Recession
A study released Friday (Nov. 20) by RONIN has found that companies across the globe taking a strategic approach to emerging from the recession are investing more...
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Technology Sector Transforms Into a Giant R&d Machine
When the world thinks of the Indian technology sector, it imagines a nation of call center workers and low level computer programmers administering databases and...
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Securing Military Wireless Networks
The U.S. Army Research Laboratory has awarded a 10-year, $35.5 million grant to establish a new research center to develop secure, mobile wireless networks for...
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Bcs Honors Ground-Breaking Scientists
Professor Yorick Wilks, a pioneering AI scientist who is helping develop virtual agents to keep older people company, and Dr Byron Cook, an academic who has broken...
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