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New Global Portal For Cyber-Physical Systems Research Launched
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New Global Portal For Cyber-Physical Systems Research Launched

Vanderbilt University's Institute for Software Integrated Systems recently launched the Cyber-Physical Systems Virtual Organization, a U.S. National Science Foundation...

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New Kde Project Aims at Tablets, Mixed ­is

KDE is developing two open source projects designed to provide a consistent user interface across a variety of touchscreen interfaces and to advance data integration...

Facebook Opens Up Its Hardware Secrets
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Facebook Opens Up Its Hardware Secrets

Facebook plans to open the designs and specifications of its new super-efficient data center. The company wants to encourage software-style openness for hardware...

High-Performance Computing Cluster Will Aid Research
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High-Performance Computing Cluster Will Aid Research

Temple University has a new high-performance computer cluster comprised of more than 100 nodes that will significantly enhance the high-speed computing capabilities...

Supercomputers Let ­p on Speed
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Supercomputers Let ­p on Speed

Smarter rather than faster design appears to be coming into vogue as a gauge of a supercomputer's success. A federal report urges a more balanced portfolio of...

A Glimpse of the Archives of the Future
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A Glimpse of the Archives of the Future

The National Archives and Records Administration enlisted the Texas Advanced Computing Center to find innovative and scalable solutions to large-scale electronic...

Ut Debuts Its Newest Supercomputer
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Ut Debuts Its Newest Supercomputer

The University of Texas at Austin, along with the Texas A&M University, Texas Tech, the University of Texas System, and others, has built the Lonestar 4 supercomputer...

Facebook Shares Server Design
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Facebook Shares Server Design

Facebook Inc. said it would share details for its new server systems and computer rooms with other companies, hoping to set off what it characterized as an open...

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Garbage-Sorting Robot Gets Its Hands Dirty

Robots could fill the role of sorting through and categorizing discarded material from construction and demolition projects for recyclers as a result of the efforts...

National Science Board Talks "big Data"
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National Science Board Talks "big Data"

The U.S. National Science Board recently held a panel discussion exploring the data challenges facing the future of science and engineering research, with the goal...

Dhs Seeks to Grow Antibodies in Cyberspace
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Dhs Seeks to Grow Antibodies in Cyberspace

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security recently released a white paper describing a tripartite approach to cybersecurity based on automation, interoperability...

The Secret to Some of Lucasfilm's Magic: Nvidia's Gpu Chips
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The Secret to Some of Lucasfilm's Magic: Nvidia's Gpu Chips

Like the visual effects you've been seeing in movies these days? Of course, you already know that in most cases they're computer-generated. And as you've seen...

Kaashoek Wins Acm's Prize For Young Researchers
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Kaashoek Wins Acm's Prize For Young Researchers

Frans Kaashoek, a professor in the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and associate director of the Computer Science and Artificial...

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Ornl Simulating Japan Nuke Crisis

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are using supercomputer clusters to run simulations that could help resolve the nuclear...

The First Plastic Computer Processor
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The First Plastic Computer Processor

Silicon may underpin the computers that surround us, but the rigid inflexibility of the semiconductor means it cannot reach everywhere. The first computer processor...

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Cloud@Home: Goals, Challenges, and Benefits of a Volunteer Cloud

University of Messina professors Salvatore Distefano and Antonio Puliafito suggest using cloud-based volunteer computing, known as Cloud@Home, to solve many ofView...

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Is Government Ready for the Semantic Web?

Semantic technology is capable of supplying answers to questions that might be of interest to U.S. government agencies that have long struggled with problems identifying...

Quantum Computing Device Hints at Powerful Future
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Quantum Computing Device Hints at Powerful Future

One of the most complex efforts toward a quantum computer has been shown off at the American Physical Society meeting in Dallas in the U.S. It uses the strange...

Spotting Insider Threats on the Front Lines
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Spotting Insider Threats on the Front Lines

U.S. Military Academy at West Point cadets are researching ways of using network monitoring tools to automate frontline security.

Gca: Female Developers Crashing the Boys Club
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Gca: Female Developers Crashing the Boys Club

Gail Carmichael is one of the few women to enter the Great Canadian Appathon, a 48-hour video game coding competition taking place at college and university campuses...
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