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Computing Simulation Tool Nets Best Paper Award
Novel research has improved the simulation performance of hardware models created in SystemC. Preliminary experiments showed the researchers were able to speed...
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Better Computing, Communication For Disaster Response
The response to natural disasters like the killer earthquake in Haiti is complicated by the difficulty delivering medical care in a chaotic environment where the...
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New Life For Magnetic Tape
Music lovers may have long forsaken them, but magnetic tapes still reign supreme when it comes to storing vast amounts of digital data. And new research from IBM...
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Helping Computers nderstand Natural Human Speech
Lockheed Martin researchers are developing software that can extract meaning from a string of spoken sentences. The technology, called Spoken Language Interaction...
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Agile Development Hitting the Mainstream, Report Says
Agile application development methodologies are being rapidly embraced by enterprises, according to a new Forrester Research study. Forty-five percent of the nearly...
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Computer Mouse Still Rules, Says Expert
Next-generation interactive devices, such as gestural interaction and brain-computer interfaces, are unlikely to replace the keyboard and mouse anytime soon, says...
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Software Development Gets a Better Production Line
European researchers have devised a new software development paradigm using an assembly line-style development process. "Think of this as a sandwich shop, where...
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Teaching Computer Games
Rapid computer game creation (RCGC) could be used to close the digital divide, according to Nikunj Dalal and colleagues at Oklahoma State University. Schools and...
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Spasers Set to Sum: A New Dawn For Optical Computing
It's a laser, but not as we know it. For a start, you need a microscope to see it. Gleaming eerily green, a "spaser" is a single spherical particle just a few tens...
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Security Technique Protects Multi-Party Computation
Recent academic research is advancing the development of secure multi-party computation (SMC), an security technique aimed at protecting data for various online...
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Outsourcing Makes A Comeback
After fizzling out over the past couple years, outsourcing is back in vogue. A new PricewaterhouseCoopers study shows outsourcing has roared back to life in the...
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Touchscreen Merges the Real and Digital Worlds
For all the advances in table-top and tablet computing, some design professionals will always prefer the feel of pen on paper to stylus on glass. A new device could...
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Grid Computing and the Future of Cloud Computing
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the idea of grid computing, a type of distributed computing that harnesses the power of many computers to handle large computational...
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Picture-Driven Computing
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have developed Sikuli, a system that enables computer users to write programs using screen shots of graphical...
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R&d Partnership to sher in Era of Petascale Computing in Singapore
Fujistu and the Institute of High Performance Computing at Singapore's Agency for Science Technology and Research have announced a joint research and development...
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Slime Design Mimics Tokyo's Rail System
Hokkaido University researchers, working with colleagues in the United Kingdom and Japan, recently completed a study suggesting that a fungus-like mold might be...
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Tech Volunteers Aiding Haiti Relief Efforts
Software developers and tech-savvy individuals from around the world are organizing to help with the Haiti relief effort. Projects already underway include the...
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Data at the End of the Tunnel
Scientists at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin and French research facility CNRS have made advances in the development of tunnel magnetoresistance-based memory.
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Ict Research to Boost India Socio-Economic Development
William Thies and other scientists at Microsoft Research India have created technologies specifically designed to facilitate socio-economic development, spanning...
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