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ACM Launches New Digital Library
More than 50 years of computing literature is augmented, streamlined, and joined to powerful new tools for retrieval and analysis.
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Following the Crowd
Crowdsourcing is based on a simple but powerful concept: Virtually anyone has the potential to plug in valuable information.
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Maurice Wilkes: The Last Pioneer
Computer science has lost not only a great scientist, but an important link to the electronic computing revolution that took place in the 1940s.
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Information Theory After Shannon
Purdue University's Science of Information Center seeks new principles to answer the question 'What is information?'
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Chipping Away at Greenhouse Gases
Power-saving processor algorithms have the potential to create significant energy and cost savings.
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Where High Speed Internet Meets Smart Grid
Advanced internet technologies, energy management and the smart grid are coming together in an unlikely location: a mid-sized city in the South.
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Berkeley Lab To Help China Improve Energy Efficiency of Data Centers
The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has started working with China to improve the energy performance of its data centers.
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India's Elephantine Effort
An ambitious biometric ID project in the world's second most populous nation aims to relieve poverty, but faces many hurdles.
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The Touchy Subject of Haptics
After more than 20 years of research and development, are haptic interfaces finally getting ready to enter the computing mainstream?
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It Needs Fundamental Shift to Continue Rapid Advances in Computing
The pace of advances in information technology could slow unless the United States aggressively commits to fundamental research and development in parallel computing...
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10 Ways a Digital Big Brother Can Be Good For You
The opening passage from George Orwell's "1984" depicts a guy hustling up a stairwell that's plastered with giant posters of a man's face staring at him.
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Doe Awards Nist Millions of Supercomputing Hours, Aims For 'concrete Results'
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded a NIST team of researchers millions of hours of supercomputing time to analyze concrete flow, with the aim of improving...
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Green Grid Creates More Metrics For Energy Efficiency in Data Centers
The Green Grid consortium is developing two metrics to add to its power usage effectiveness metric for measuring energy efficiency in data centers. The new metrics...
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A Matter of Privacy
Do consumers have enough control over their personal information or is more government regulation needed?
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The New Face of War
With the introduction of the sophisticated Stuxnet worm, the stakes of cyberwarfare have increased immeasurably.
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CSEdWeek Expands Its Reach
The second Computer Science Education Week is showing students, parents, and educators why computer science is important.
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Topic Models vs. Unstructured Data
With topic modeling, scientists can explore and understand huge collections of unlabeled information.
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The Eyes Have It
Eye-tracking control for mobile phones might lead to a new era of context-aware user interfaces.
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Globus Online File Transfer Service Debuts
The creators of Globus Online have announced the general availability of the cloud-hosted high-performance, secure file transfer service. Globus Online eliminates...
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