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Electronic Paper's Next Chapter
The technological challenge for researchers working on the next generation of electronic paper is to render color as brightly as traditional paper, without increasing power requirements or end-user costs.
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Building the Smart Home Wirelessly
Researchers at Taiwan's National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) say that radio tags, combined with mobile communication devices, could provide seamless smart home multimedia services.
Invisibility Visualized: New Software for Rendering Cloaked Objects
Researchers at Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have developed a new visualization tool that will enable users to see what a cloaked object looks like in real life. Designed to handle complex media, the software is…
Are Nations Paying Criminals for Botnet Attacks?
Countries that want to disrupt other nations' government, banking, and media resources can simply hire cybercriminals to launch botnet attacks, according to new report by McAfee that interviews 20 cybersecurity experts. William…
Tai Xue-Cheng Wins Feng Kang Prize in Scientific Computing
Tai Xue-Cheng, a specialist in numerical analysis and computational mathematics at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), has been named the winner of the 8th Feng Kang Prize in Scientific Computing.
PRACE Is Ready for Implementation: Applications Ported
The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) has been researching promising petascaling techniques, as well as related work on optimization techniques and the study of software libraries and programming models suitable…
Tech Innovation Program Seeks Comments on Potential Future Funding Areas
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is asking for public comment on four white papers that outline potential areas for research funding grants under the Institute's Technology Innovation Program (TIP).
Global Study Reveals Role of IT in Strategic Efforts to Combat Recession
A study released Friday (Nov. 20) by RONIN has found that companies across the globe taking a strategic approach to emerging from the recession are investing more in Information Technology, have more advanced technology in place…
Trust Linux!
A team of researchers has implemented support for 'trusted computing' in a commercially available version of the open source operating system Linux, breaking new ground in the global drive toward more secure computing environments…
Technology Sector Transforms Into a Giant R&D Machine
When the world thinks of the Indian technology sector, it imagines a nation of call center workers and low level computer programmers administering databases and updating Web sites. Few observers, even in India, realize that…
Securing Military Wireless Networks
The U.S. Army Research Laboratory has awarded a 10-year, $35.5 million grant to establish a new research center to develop secure, mobile wireless networks for the military. The Communication Networks Research Center is one…
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Users Rationally Rejecting Security Advice
This paper, by Cormac Herley at Microsoft Research, sounds like me: Abstract: It is often suggested that users are hopelessly lazy and unmotivated on…4-year Masters
Harvard, like many other places, has an option by which students (with "Advanced Standing" from AP classes) can obtain a Master's (in some programs) as…Run-length encoding (part I)
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