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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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Nsf Career Award Recognizes Wsu Vancouver Professor
WenZhan Song, assistant professor in the School of Engineering and Computer Science at WSU Vancouver, has received a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER...
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Researchers Find Weakness in Common Digital Security System
The most common digital security technique used to protect both media copyright and Internet communications has a major weakness, University of Michigan computer...
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Touch Screens that Touch Back
Forget putting your phone on vibrate. A novel "high-definition" touch-feedback display can give a touch screen the feel of a textured surface. The technology was...
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U.s. Plan to Make Hacking Harder Revealed
The Obama administration has declassified part of its plan to improve the security of cyberspace in an attempt to cultivate greater collaboration between government...
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What's Next For High-Performance Computing?
The fusion of high-performance computing (HPC) and high-performance data could potentially result in the generation of robust systems that are at least one order...
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Attack Unmasks User Behind the Browser
Vienna University of Technology researchers have developed the "deanonymization" attack as a way to reveal the identity of Internet users based on their interactions...
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Skills Experts Bemoan Poor It Teaching
Information technology (IT) needs to be taught a different way in schools if the industry is to deepen its talent pool, experts in the United Kingdom said during...
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Scientists Strive to Map the Shape-Shifting Net
In a dimly lit chamber festooned with wires and hidden in one of California’s largest data centers, Tim Pozar is changing the shape of the Internet. He is using...
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The Interpreter in the Laptop
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology scientists will demonstrate a language-to-language translation device at the upcoming CeBIT conference. The device combines automatic...
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Software Sniffs Out Criminals By the Shape of Their Nose
University of Bath scientists have developed a biometric system for identifying people based on their nose shape. The researchers used a photographic system to...
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Nsf-Supported Researchers Gain Access to Microsoft's Azure Services Platform
The National Science Foundation has announced a memorandum of understanding with Microsoft Corp. whereby Microsoft will provide NSF supported-researchers access...
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Guide For Applying Risk Management Framework to Information Systems Released
The final publication of the 93-page Guide for Applying the Risk Management Framework to Federal Information Systems: A Security Life Cycle Approach (NIST Special...
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Ornl Technology May Better Detect Cyber Security Attacks
A system that can more effectively detect possible cyber security attacks within large organizations—including government agencies—is being developed with the assistance...
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First Test Labs for Next-Generation Internet Protocol (IPv6) Are Accredited
The first two laboratories have recently completed accreditation to provide testing services for the USGv6 Program. The program provides the basis for expressing...
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Cloud Technology to Combat Cancer
Cloud services provided over grid technology are helping to treat cancer patients, thanks to an enormous effort by European researchers working closely with industry...
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