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Recommendation Algorithm Wants to Show You Something New
An international group of researchers have developed a new algorithm for recommender systems designed to address the challenge of diversity when making recommendations...
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Researchers Engage Communities to Support Women in It Careers
Virginia Tech's Appalachian Information Technology Extension Service is a research-based extension program designed to provide support for young women seeking careers...
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Project Peppher Announced
The European PErformance Portability and Programmability of Heterogeneous many-core aRchitectures (PEPPHER) project is developing a methodology and architecture...
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Egi.eu to Coordinate European Scientific Computing Grids
A new organization named the European Grid Initiative (EGI.eu) will coordinate a European-wide grid computing infrastructure that will enable scientists to share...
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Researchers Develop 3D Graphics Capability For Firefox
Researchers have incorporated faster software for generating three-dimensional (3D) images into Firefox and plan to release the modified version of the browser...
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Anita Borg Institute Announces Women of Vision Award Winners
The Anita Borg Institute for Women in Technology has named Kathleen R. McKeown, Kristina M. Johnson, and Lila Ibrahim the winners of the 2010 Women of Vision Awards...
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Faster Optical Switching Through Chemistry
New molecules produced at Georgia Tech could enable engineers to build all-optical data routers, ultimately leading to transmission speeds as high as two terabits...
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UCLA Will Resume Streaming Video After Legal Dispute
The University of California at Los Angeles has restored its streaming video service about two months after temporarily suspending the service amid complaints from...
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White House Cyber Czar: 'there Is No Cyberwar'
Howard Schmidt, the new cybersecurity czar for the Obama Administration, has a short answer for the drumbeat of rhetoric claiming the United States is caught up...
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New Frontiers: The Nanoscience/neuroscience Intersection
Is it possible to build supercomputers that can replicate the human brain, or to develop nanotechnology that can lead to an implantable chip for interfacing with...
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Researchers to Develop Tiny Metamaterial Antennas
Northeastern University engineering professor Hossein Mosallaei is leading an effort to use metamaterials to make smaller antennas that allow quicker and more efficient...
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China in Consultations With Google to Resolve Dispute
China is in consultations with technology giant Google to resolve its dispute with the company, which has threatened to abandon the Chinese market over hacking...
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Internet's Future on Display at Singularity U.
The Internet of the future is an intelligent network capable of proactively acting on our needs, following us wherever we go, helping provide us with focused health...
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Nasa Grooming Satellite Repair-Bots
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is developing satellite repair-bots to demonstrate the feasibility of refueling, repairing, and servicing...
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One Sensor to Do the Work of Many
U.S. Pentagon scientists have developed the Autonomous Real-Time Ground Ubiquitous Surveillance Imaging System (ARGUS-IS), a sensor system that can spot and track...
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Putting the Web in a Spreadsheet
IBM researchers have developed BigSheets, a data analysis tool based on Hadoop designed to help users analyze large Web data sets. BigSheets uses Hadoop to comb...
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Call Forwarding: New Procedure Could Speed Cell Phone Testing
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has shown how the wireless industry could lop hours off the process of testing the capabilities of new...
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Napolitano Issues Dhs National Cybersecurity Challenge to Security Community
U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano delivered a keynote address which focused on cybersecurity at the RSA Conference in San Francisco...
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Skapp Project Issues Recommendations on Improving Government Science
A new report from the Project on Scientific Knowledge and Public Policy's Scientists in Government project concludes that policies regarding the roles and responsibilities...
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