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Carnegie Mellon Develops Touchscreen Technology That Distinguishes Taps By Different Parts of Finger
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Carnegie Mellon Develops Touchscreen Technology That Distinguishes Taps By Different Parts of Finger

Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed TapSense, a system that combines a microphone with a touchscreen to distinguish the difference between the...

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New Project to Tackle Data Deluge: Eudat--Towards a Pan-European Collaborative Data Infrastructure

The recently launched EUDAT project aims to provide Europe's scientific and research communities with a sustainable European-wide infrastructure for improved access...

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Magnifying Research: Scientists Team Together to Upgrade K-State's Supercomputer, Benefiting Other Colleges, Too

Kansas State University researchers are using a $700,000 U.S. National Science Foundation grant to upgrade its Beocat supercomputer, a cluster of servers that provides...

Wearable Depth-Sensing Projection System Makes Any Surface Capable of Multitouch Interaction
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Wearable Depth-Sensing Projection System Makes Any Surface Capable of Multitouch Interaction

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft have developed OmniTouch, a wearable projection system that enables users to turn any object into a graphical...

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'son of Stuxnet' Virus Could Be Used to Attack Critical Computers Worldwide

Symantec researchers have discovered a new virus, Duqu, that they say is very similar to the Stuxnet virus that was used to attack Iran's nuclear program. 

Scientists Create Computing Building Blocks From Bacteria and Dna
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Scientists Create Computing Building Blocks From Bacteria and Dna

Imperial College London researchers say they have developed a method for building logic gates out of bacteria and DNA, which makes them the most advanced biological...

Could a Computer One Day Rewire Itself?
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Could a Computer One Day Rewire Itself?

Northwestern University researchers have developed a nanomaterial that can guide electrical currents, which could lead to a computer that can redesign its internal...

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New Malicious Program by Creators of Stuxnet Is Suspected

The designers of Stuxnet, the computer worm that was used to vandalize an Iranian nuclear site, may have struck again, security researchers say.

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The Quest For the Holy Grail of Storage

The cloud has a big problem on its hands: Cloud storage is failure-prone, slow, and infinitely quirky.

Microsoft Embraces Elephant of Open Source
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Microsoft Embraces Elephant of Open Source

It took more than three years, but Microsoft has finally learned to stop worrying and love Hadoop.

Supercomputing's Exascale Arms Race
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Supercomputing's Exascale Arms Race

The United States wants to achieve exaflop speeds for supercomputing, but China, the European Union, India, Japan, and Russia also have set their sights on exascale...

Mass. Schools Team Up For Supercomputer Center
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Mass. Schools Team Up For Supercomputer Center

The Massachusetts Green High Performance Computer Center aims to capitalize on the huge boost in the amount of computer power available for academic research. 

Computational Model of Peace Predicts Social Violence, Harmony
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Computational Model of Peace Predicts Social Violence, Harmony

New England Complex Systems Institute researchers have developed a computational model that analyzes census data to identify potential areas of civil violence,...

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Dennis Ritchie: The Shoulders Steve Jobs Stood On

The tributes to Dennis Ritchie won’t match the river of praise that spilled out over the web after the death of Steve Jobs. But they should.

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The Singularity Isn't Near

 Futurists like Vernor Vinge and Ray Kurzweil have argued that the world is rapidly approaching a tipping point, where the accelerating pace of smarter and smarter...

Pr2 Can Now Fetch You a Sandwich From Subway
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Pr2 Can Now Fetch You a Sandwich From Subway

Researchers from the University of Tokyo and Technische Universitat Munchen have given a robot common sense. 

Progress in Quantum Computing, Qubit by Qubit
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Progress in Quantum Computing, Qubit by Qubit

 Harvard University researchers have developed a method for capturing light in tiny diamond pillars embedded in silver, releasing a stream of single photons at...

What Did Steve Jobs Do For Computer Science?
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What Did Steve Jobs Do For Computer Science?

Beyond a mind-bending array of business, societal, and technological accomplishments, there’s an often-overlooked side to Steve Jobs and Apple. The company’s contributions...

Dennis Ritchie, C Creator and ­nix Developer, Has Passed Away
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Dennis Ritchie, C Creator and ­nix Developer, Has Passed Away

Dennis Ritchie, creator of the C programming language and developer of UNIX, has passed away at the age of 70.

Physicists to Develop New Way of Electronic Computing
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Physicists to Develop New Way of Electronic Computing

University of California, Riverside researchers are developing a new way of computing designed to accelerate applications that process large amounts of data, such...
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