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Blinding the Watchman
Internet constellations could thwart killer asteroid discovery algorithms.
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Give a Humanist a Supercomputer . . .
Humanities researchers involved in the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Department of Energy's high-performance computing competition provided updates...
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Cyber Challenge Tests Nation's Top Hackers
With the coolness of a card shark at the final table of the World Series of Poker, Matt Bergin pulls the hood of his brown sweatshirt over his head and concentrates...
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Learning to Love to Hate Robots
Several studies have recently been conducted to determine how humans and robots interact and how to improve the human-robot relationship. For example, a Carnegie...
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Scientists Explore Energy Efficiency in Multi-Scale Computing Systems
The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and nine other universities are collaborating on the Multi-Scale Systems Center (MuSyC), a new research center that...
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Future Internet Design Summit
The National Science Foundation's meeting on Internet architectures focused on designs related to emerging social and economic realities. The four-day, invitation...
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Amir Pnueli: Ahead of His Time
Remembering a legacy of practical and theoretical innovation.
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Machine Visually Inspects and Sorts Strawberry Plants
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) have developed a machine that uses computer vision and machine learning...
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New Game For Playstation 3: Crunching Numbers
Researchers and some government agencies are using Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) consoles to process data using the game machine's powerful Cell processor. For example...
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Insurgents Hack .s. Drones
Militants in Iraq have used $26 off-the-shelf software to intercept live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones, potentially providing them with information they...
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niversity of Toronto Physicists Lay the Groundwork for Cooler, Faster Computing
Researchers at the University of Toronto (UT) have discovered new behaviors of light that could lead to faster optical information processing and compact computers...
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Glasgow's Joking Computer
A computer that is capable of using simple language rules and a large vocabulary to generate cracker-style jokes, based on puns, is the subject of a new exhibit...
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A Deluge of Data Shapes a New Era in Computing
In a speech given just a few weeks before he was lost at sea off the California coast in January 2007, Jim Gray, a database software pioneer and a Microsoft researcher...
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Wales Gets
The Welsh Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) has announced HPC Wales, a new high-performance computing (HPC) institute that will provide the industrial...
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Southampton Supercomputer to Crunch Computations
The new University of Southampton supercomputer, which will go live in January 2010, will enable students in the school's Institute for Complex Systems Simulation...
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Scientists, IT Community Await Exascale Computers
The information technology (IT) industry discussed the challenges it faces in developing exascale systems, a new generation of supercomputers that promise to be...
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Bristol Postdoc Shares in High-Performance Computing Prize
University of Bristol postdoctoral researcher Rio Yokota was a member of the team that won the first Gordon Bell prize in the price per performance category of...
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22 Stories nderground: Iron Mountain's Experimental Room 48
Down a road that winds through the rolling hills of western Pennsylvania, just across from a cow pasture, the bucolic scenery of Butler County is interrupted by...
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Optimism as Artificial Intelligence Pioneers Reunite
An optimistic outlook has returned to the field of artificial intelligence (AI) 45 years after the pronouncement by computer scientist John McCarthy that a thinking...
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Replica of Groundbreaking Computer Going to Computer History Museum
Iowa State University's full-scale, working replica of the Atanasoff-Berry Computer, a groundbreaking machine built on the Iowa State campus from 1939 to 1942,...
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