Communications of the ACM
Cybersecurity Protects Food, Agriculture
Protecting the U.S. food supply from cyberattack.
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Neural Networks That Replicate Biological Brains
Imperial College London professor of cognitive robotics Murray Shanahan is using graphics processing technology originally developed for the gaming industry to...
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New Exotic Material Could Revolutionize Electronics
Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have discovered that the compound bismuth telluride acts...
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Scientists Create Hybrid System of Human-Machine Interaction
In a groundbreaking study, scientists at FAU have created a "hybrid" system to examine real-time interactions between humans and machines (virtual partners). By...
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Ibm Marks Breakthrough in Molecular Electronics
IBM scientists have succeeded in measuring the charge state of individual atoms using non-contact atomic force microscopy, which could have a major impact on molecular...
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The Dawn of Quantum Applications
Technologies that exploit the unique weirdness of quantum mechanics could debut in the very near future, thanks to the groundbreaking work of a huge European research...
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Computing in the Quantum Dimension
A huge consortium of European researchers is solving some of the fundamental obstacles blocking real quantum computing applications in the short term. At the same...
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'colossal' Magnetic Effect Under Pressure
Scientists are on the verge of understanding and controlling the colossal magnetoresistance effect (CMR), a phenomenon that is potentially up to a thousand times...
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'electronic Glue' Promises Cheaper Semiconductors
Researchers at the University of Chicago and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed an "electronic glue" that could accelerate advances in semiconductor...
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Better and Faster Search Engines
Ola Agren, a Ph.D. candidate at Umea University in Sweden, has developed an algorithm that will make search engines faster and return more relevant results. Search...
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Atom Pinhole Camera Acts as a Shrinking Copy Machine
Scientists from the Institute of Spectroscopy at the Russian Academy of Sciences have developed a method of nanofabrication that uses an atom pinhole camera to...
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French Physicists Claim Breakthrough in ltra-Fast Data Access
Superfast lasers could potentially be used to make storage and retrieval of data on hard disks up to 100,000 times faster, according to French physicists. A team...
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Memory with a Twist: Nist Develops a Flexible Memristor
Electronic memory chips may soon gain the ability to bend and twist as a result of work by engineers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)...
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Towards the Ultimate Transistor
In 1974 Ari Aviram and Mark Ratner from the IBM Thomas J Watson Research Center in New York suggested using molecules themselves as electronic components. In the...
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Researchers Simulate Sounds of Water and Other Liquids
Cornell University computer science researchers have developed new algorithms to simulate the sounds of water to correspond with images. Cornell professor Doug...
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NIST Engineers Discover Fundamental Flaw in Transistor Theory
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) engineers have uncovered a flaw in the understanding of transistor noise, a phenomenon affecting the electronic...
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Autonomous Helicopters
Researchers are improving unmanned helicopters' capabilities to address regulatory requirements and commercial uses.
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Content Control
Entertainment businesses say digital rights management prevents the theft of their products, but access control technologies have been a uniform failure when it...
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Micromedicine to the Rescue
Medical researchers have long dreamed of "magic bullets" that go directly where they are needed. Now micromedicine and nanotechnology are making a range of molecules...
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Daskalakis Wins ACM Award For Advances in Analyzing Behavior in Conflict Situations
Constantinos Daskalakis has won the 2008 Doctoral Dissertation Award from ACM (the Association for Computing Machinery) for his work on behavior in complex networks...
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