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Is Your Microrobot p For the (nist) Challenge?
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in collaboration with IEEE, is inviting university and collegiate student teams currently engaged in...
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Artificial Muscles Made of Hydrogen Can Make Domestic Robots Silent
Engineers have found a way to make domestic robots a lot quieter, by building them with artificial muscles that run on hydrogen, instead of noisy compressed-air...
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Jumping the Queue For Official Documents
Software developed by European researchers allows citizens and local governments to exchange official documents over mobile phones. The software could help usher...
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Handheld Camera Brings 'invisible' Into View
A group of researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology has developed a handheld camera that uses microwave signals to non-destructively peek inside...
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First Gordon Prize in Managing Cybersecurity Resources Awarded
The first $1,000 Gordon Prize in Managing Cybersecurity Resources goes for an essay written by researchers from Harvard and Dresden, Germany. Maryland's Robert...
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Researchers to Model the Life Cycles of Successful Virtual Teams
Florida State University (FSU) researcher Kathleen Burnett has received a two-year, $380,226 U.S. National Science Foundation grant to study scientific researchers...
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CSB Joins With Leading Asian Institute to Develop Green Electronics
The research and development of "green" nanoscale devices with ultra-low power leakage is the focus of a new collaboration between the University of California,...
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Moving Beyond Text-Based Video Search
Current disputes on the appropriate format for conducting searches of online video threaten to dredge up old battles on the superiority of linear, textual styles...
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Nsf's Cyber-Network Now Connects Half the Globe
The Taj network, funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), has expanded to the Global Ring Network for Advanced Application Development (GLORIAD), and...
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New Software Could Smooth Supercomputing Speed Bumps
Supercomputers have long been an indispensable, albeit expensive, tool for researchers who need to make sense of vast amounts of data. One way that researchers...
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IT Jobs Will Expand Globally by Nearly 6 Million in 4 Years
IDC predicts that by 2013, jobs in information technology (IT) will expand by 5.8 million worldwide, and that 75,000 new businesses will be created during that...
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Tracking Devious Phishing Web Sites
Internet security experts have discovered that many phishers are using a trick called a flux, which allows a fake Web site to rapidly change its URL, making it...
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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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The A-Z of Programming Languages: Arduino's Tom Igoe
Tom Igoe is a co-developer of the Arduino programming language, which he says was created out of a desire to provide a tool for teaching physical computing to artists...
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Conference Focuses on Preventing High-Capacity Computer Data Theft
At the recent International Conference on Applied Modeling and Information Security Systems, high-performance computing researchers cautioned that worldwide computer...
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Jeff Dozier of csb Wins Microsoft Research's Jim Gray Award
University of California, Santa Barbara professor Jeff Dozier has received Microsoft Research's second annual Jim Gray eScience Award. The award was created to...
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Plastic Optical Fiber Brightens Communications Landscape
Groundbreaking research by a team of European scientists working in the EU-funded POLYCOM project has helped put plastic optical fiber (POF) on track for use in...
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Is My Robot Happy to See Me?
Scientists at Georgia Tech have tested people's ability to interpret a robot's "emotion" by reading its expression to see if there were any differences between...
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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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