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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Field Experiment on a Metropolitan Quantum Cryptography Network
The University of Science and Technology of China recently demonstrated a metropolitan quantum cryptography network (QCN) for use by the government in Wuhu, China...
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Merging Video With Maps
Microsoft and researchers from the University of Konstanz in Germany are collaborating to create Videomap, navigation software that incorporates videos of driving...
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Researchers Save Electricity With Low-Power Processors and Flash Memory
During ACM's recent Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Intel Labs Pittsburgh won the best paper award for...
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Kraken Becomes First Academic Machine to Achieve Petaflop
The National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS), a joint project between the University of Tennessee (UT) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has upgraded...
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A View From the 2009 European Computer Science Summit
A recurring theme at Informatics Europe's recent European Computer Science Summit 2009, which took place Oct. 8-9 in Paris, was the concern that the European scientific...
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Why Desktop Multiprocessing Has Speed Limits
Despite the mainstreaming of multicore processors for desktops, not every desktop application can be rewritten for multicore frameworks, which means some bottlenecks...
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Prototype Security Software Blocks Ddos Attacks
Auburn University researchers have developed a software filter that protects computers against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks without bogging down...
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Creating Resilience For Vehicular Applications
Automotive communications are a major element in the near future of vehicle technology, with applications ranging from variable road sign visualization, to accident...
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Free-Flying Cyborg Insects Steered From a Distance
Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have connected electrodes and radio antennas to the nervous systems of beetles and then were able to control...
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Rim and Nserc Invest in Queen's Expertise
Software engineering techniques for very large data systems will be the focus of research at Queen's University in Canada, which has received a $5 million investment...
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nix at 40: Hanging on Despite Strong Linux, Windows Challenges
After four decades, the Unix platform is still very important to enterprise information technology and has many years of usefulness left to it, even though Linux...
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Gaming Tech Aids Scientists Building Virtual Synthetic Chromatophore
Researchers are relying on graphics processing units to help build a highly complex computer simulation depicting how chromatophore proteins create photosynthesis...
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The Self-Managing, 'unbreakable' Internet?
High-powered Internet applications typically need teams of experts to maintain them. Not any more, say European researchers who have built a system to create applications...
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Silicon-Germanium Electronics May Cut Spacecraft Weight
Satellites and other spacecraft typically use bulky and expensive shielding to protect vital microprocessors and other microelectronic integrated circuits from...
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Code Breakthrough Delivers Safer Computing
Computer researchers at the University of New South Wales and NICTA say they have proven that an operating-system kernel was 100 percent free of bugs. The team...
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Supercomputers Often Run Outdated Software
Supercomputing experts discussed the issue of supercomputing software during a recent conference in Washington, D.C., celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Coalition...
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Study Shows Improvements in Quality of Open Source Code
Code analysis vendor Coverity reports that the number of defects in open source projects is on the decline.
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Wolfram's Search Goal: Compute All
Stephen Wolfram has set the ambitious goal of converting the global corpus of knowledge into a computable format through WolframAlpha.com, a computational knowledge...
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Shaping the Future
To create shape-shifting robotic ensembles, researchers need to teach micro-machines to work together.
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