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Japanese Researchers Downplay Super Cpu Effect
Japanese researchers led by Waseda University computer scientist Hironori Kasahara will spend the next year planning for a project to develop a new software standard...
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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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Spanish Scientists Develop the Intelligent Financial Search Engine
Researchers from Carlos III University of Madrid (UCM3), the University of Murcia, and the Business Institute have jointly created SONAR, a new search engine that...
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Intelligent Vehicles Tested Across European Roads
A European-wide research project slated to begin in 2010 should offer some answers about the real benefits that advanced driver assistance systems provide to drivers...
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.s. To Share Internet Review Amid Worldwide Growth
The United States has announced that it intends to give other governments and businesses increased oversight in the governance of ICANN. While the U.S. government...
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Software Could Pave the Way to End Tune Plagiarism
A researcher from Goldsmiths, University of London, and an expert on cover versions and music re-mixes from the Institute of Musicology at the University of Hamburg...
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Industry Body Forming to Address It Graduate Skills
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is creating the Open Web Education Alliance (OWEA), a new body designed to help ensure that educational institutions around...
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Researchers Break Vanish Security System
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, Princeton and the University of Michigan claim to have broken the Vanish security system, a research prototype...
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MIT Creating Microchip That Could Restore Vision
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have developed a microchip that could be used with wireless technology and eyeglasses equipped with a camera...
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A Simpler, Gentler Robotic Grip
Harvard and Yale University researchers have designed a soft robotic hand that can pick up objects, suggesting a promising future in prosthetic arms. The new device...
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Alliance Aims to Provide Mashup Interoperability
Eleven information technology companies are forming the Open Mashup Alliance (OMA) to promote and support the Enterprise Mashup Markup Language (EMML), which members...
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Icann Be Independent
ICANN has reached a new agreement with the U.S. government that will allow the organization to operate more independently, just before the expiration of the joint...
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Pedestrian Crossings Could Be Monitored
A surveillance system for monitoring whether cars and pedestrians are acting normally at crosswalks has been developed by researchers at Spain's University of Castilla...
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New Ranking Algorithm Separates Digital Wheat from Chaff
The ranking algorithm called SPEAR (SPamming-resistant Expertise Analysis and Ranking), developed by PhD candidates Ching Man Au Yeung of the University of Southampton...
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American Graduate Programs With Overseas Partners Are on the Rise
International joint- and dual-degree programs are becoming more numerous in Europe, but interest also is rising in the United States, according to presenters at...
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Computer Code Gives Astrophysicists Full Simulation of Star's Final Hours
Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed the first full-star simulation of the conditions inside a...
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Greener Computing in the Cloud
Researchers say that custom data centers being built for cloud computing systems are very energy efficient. "There are issues with property rights and confidentiality...
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Google Opens Voting on Ideas to Change the World
Google's Project 10 100 — a contest celebrating the company's 10th anniversary — asked participants in September 2008 to submit ideas that could help change the...
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Ants Vs. Worms: Computer Security Software Mimics Nature
In the never-ending battle to protect computer networks from intruders, security experts are deploying a new defense modeled after one of nature's hardiest creatures...
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