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Nasa Mars Rover Getting Smarter as It Gets Older
Software uploaded to NASA's Mars exploration rover Opportunity gives the rover the ability to make its own choices about whether to make additional observations...
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Spain Positioned in Europe as a Sponsor of Open Source Software
The Vulcano Project is a collaborative effort between Spanish higher education institutions, technology transfer centers, and industrial partners to develop open...
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Intel Prototypes Low-Power Circuits
The smaller a silicon transistor becomes, the more electrons it leaks. That can mean unreliable, battery-draining chips. Researchers at Intel have come up with...
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Sandia to Break Ground For New Computational Laboratories Building
Sandia National Laboratories is breaking ground for a new facility—the Combustion Research Computation and Visualization building, part of the Combustion Research...
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A Swiss Army Knife For Analyzing Three-Dimensional Images
Howard Hughes Medical Institute computer scientists have developed V3D, a software suite that features tools for visualizing, analyzing, and measuring complex,...
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The Internet of Cars
An Internet of cars promises a road system designed around cooperative technology enabling each element of the traffic system—cars, drivers, traffic lights, signs—to...
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National Free Software Coalition Formed in India
Delegates at the National Free Software conference in Bangalore, India, announced the formation of a national coalition, the National Free Software Movement of...
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New Touch Screen Technology in Works
Carleton University professor Robert Biddle is one of 12 scientists working on the Digital Surface Software Application Network project, which is developing next...
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Pushing For Software Quality Assurance
In a recent Journal of Computer Science research article, "Resistance Factors in the Implementation of Software Process Improvement Project in Malaysia," the authors...
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ACM Council on Women Honors Leader in Improving Cad Performance
ACM's Council on Women in Computing has named Pennsylvania State University computer science professor Mary Jane Irwin the 2010-2011 Athena Lecturer.
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New Spam Targeting Facebook sers Is Invisible to Most Virus Scans, Says Expert
Cyber-criminals are using fake e-mails to target Facebook users and deliver computer viruses that were being detected only by one-third of the 42 most common anti...
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See-Through Networks
Promising faster, more efficient and cheaper computer networking, transparent networks are the paradigm of the future. But thanks to European researchers, they...
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Are Machines Ready to Break Down Language Barriers?
Even in an era of global networks and cheap travel, international communication still faces one great barrier: we don't all speak the same language. But that gap...
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Amarsi Project Could See Robots Learn From Co-Workers
The AMARSi project aims to build humanoid robots that can autonomously learn and develop motor skills in open-ended environments just as humans do.
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Nist, Partners Develop Testing Infrastructure For Health It Systems
NIST has released the first of four installments of a new health IT test method and related software, developed in collaboration with a broad array of public and...
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Telling Friends Where You Are (or Not)
As Jordan Viator roams the conference rooms, dimly lit bars and restaurants here at the South by Southwest Interactive conference, she often pulls out her cellphone...
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Netflix Ditches Beat-Our-Recommendation-System Contest Due to Privacy Questions
Netflix's grassroots competition to best its recommendation algorithm was a big popularity booster for the company—but thanks to concerns over privacy (backed up...
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Jpl Program Cleans Mars Mission Code
Jet Propulsion Laboratory uses formal verification at every step of software development, and is applying some of those techniques to the flight code for next year's...
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Software's Take on the Light Bulb Joke
How many men does it take to change a light bulb? Putting the punchline aside a moment, consider that it takes even more to pack a shipping crate. Now a European...
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