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Behind the Scenes at Gmail Labs
Google's Gmail Labs is constantly developing new features and applications, and while many of the projects and releases may appear to be casual or random, the Lab's...
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Methodology Lowers Embedded Systems Development Costs
Research institutions in Europe have created a uniform methodology for developing embedded systems that lowers costs and improves quality. The methodology includes...
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'parallel Revolution' Speech Offered Via Live Video Feed
David A. Patterson, former ACM President and Director of University of California, Berkeley's Parallel Computing Laboratory and the UC Berkeley Reliable Adaptive...
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Tool Builds 3-D Map of Disaster Scene
Texas A&M University lab's Robin Murphy (pictured) and colleagues have developed RubbleViewer, a tool for modeling a disaster scene that they say is more efficient...
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Move Over, Newton: Scientifically Ignorant Computer Derives Natural Laws From Raw Data
Cornell University researchers have developed an algorithm that can identify regularities in the natural world that represent natural laws. The researchers tested...
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Hp, Ibm Labs Straddle Present and Future Technologies
Both IBM's Almaden Research Center and Hewlett-Packard Labs are focused on promoting their companies' core businesses and investigating emerging technologies....
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Architects Compose Symphony of Computing Services
Web services are finding homes in a growing number of applications, from e-learning to manufacturing. But the IT industry's rush to meet demand for services has...
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Multicores Seen Driving Next-Generation Mobile Phones
York University professor Neil Audsley is part of the pan-European Embedded Multi-Core Processing for Mobile Communications project, an effort to make the multi...
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Eurosys 2009 Explores Future Computer System Designs
The EuroSys 2009 conference, sponsored by the European chapter of ACM's Special Interest Group on Operating Systems, will focus on computer system research that...
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Ietf to Explore New Routing Technique
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is forming a new working group to address scalability issues in the Internet's routing system, which are caused by companies...
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Can Robots Be Programmed to Learn From Their Own Experiences?
Inexpensive personal robots could be available soon, but they first have to be able to learn to perform tasks that human know how to do instinctively, says Iowa...
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Interactive Programs Teach Students to Play Musical Instruments
Students of popular musical instruments may soon be learning to play with the help of a new generation of intelligent, interactive computer programs thanks to European...
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Nasa Applies Gis to Its Inner Spaces
The geographic information systems (GIS) team at NASA's Langley Research Center has developed the Space Allocation Optimization tool, a program that uses geospatial...
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Researchers Pioneer New Software Systems Development Concept
Software researchers Cornelius Ncube from Bournemouth University and Patricia Oberndorf from the Software Engineering Institute are touting a new method for developing...
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Scholarship Program Targets Need For Cyber Security Skills
The Scholarship for Service (SFS) program, jointly run by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), is becoming a widely...
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Mood Player Creates the Right Atmosphere
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology in Ilmenau have created a mood player that finds images to suit the rhythm of music. The approach...
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Multicore Chips Pose Next Big Challenge For Industry
Increasing the number of processing cores has become the main way of improving the performance of server and PC chips, but any added benefits will be significantly...
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Acm Awards Recognize Innovators Who Solve Real World Problems
ACM has announced the winners of five prestigious awards honoring innovations in computing technology that benefit society through their profound impact on the...
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Nasa Plans Improved
NASA is testing the use of software-defined radios (SDRs) to enable its Deep Space Network to function as an Internet in space. NASA is preparing a SDR test module...
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