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Sustained Quantum Processing Demo Seen as Step Toward Quantum Computers
Raising prospects for building a practical quantum computer, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated sustained...
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The Group That Holds the Internet Together
ICANN remains under international pressure to sever ties with the United States government when its current contract expires in September 2009. The pressure comes...
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Hackers Game a Multiplayer World
Two programmers have hacked the World of Warcraft online game environment with a set of programs that automate in-game characters, which game developer Blizzard...
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Internet Society Honors CSNET Designers
The Internet Society has honored the designers of an early computer network with its 2009 Jonathan B. Postel Service Award. The University of Wisconsin-Madison's...
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Mining Virtual Worlds to Better nderstand Reality
Hugely popular online virtual worlds such as World of Warcraft and Second Life offer social scientists unprecedented views of gamers' behavior, and may be used...
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C San Diego Launches Triton Resource Supercomputer
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, has officially launched the Triton Resource, an integrated, data-intensive...
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Five Futuristic Interfaces on Display at Siggraph
ACM's SIGGRAPH 2009 conference will showcase a quintet of innovative interface models. University of Tokyo researchers have created a touchable holographic interface...
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Intel Taps Facebook Multitudes For Massive Research Efforts
Intel has launched Progress Thru Processors, a new Facebook application that provides users with an interface to donate their unused computer processing time to...
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Behavior of Building Block of Nature Could Lead to Computer Revolution
Physicists from the Universities of Cambridge and Birmingham have demonstrated that electrons in narrow wires can split into two new particles called spinons and...
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Programming Tools Tap Video Game Processors For Defense Needs
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology Research Institute (GTRI) are developing a programming tool that will enable defense industry engineers to use...
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Dna Computation Gets Logical at the Weizmann Institute
Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science have discovered a way to make biomolecular computers fashioned from DNA and other biological molecules more user...
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Top Cybersecurity Aide at White House Resigns
Melissa E. Hathaway, the Obama administration's senior aide on cybersecurity, is stepping down from her role due to delays in the choosing of an administrator to...
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Healthcare, The Road to Robotic Helpers
Robots are whirring away in factories all over the world, building cars, phones and cookers. Yet they can do so much more. Robotics for healthcare has been tipped...
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Computer Graphics Innovator Wins ACM Siggraph Research Award
ACM SIGGRAPH has awarded its 2009 Significant New Researcher Award to Wojciech Matusik for his original contributions to accurately capturing and representing real...
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Is the Future of Healthcare Online?
An international coalition of medical and technology companies called the Continua Health Alliance is encouraging the migration of healthcare to the Web, as remote...
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Wiring Rural America: Which Technology Is Best?
Reaching the most remote rural customers with high-speed Internet access can be prohibitively expensive. Consider the case of Hill Country Telephone Cooperative...
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Does This Avatar Make Me Look Fat?
Creating a Second Life avatar, or virtual representation of oneself, that is thin and physically fit may encourage individuals to become healthier and more physically...
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A Police Woman Fights Quantum Hacking and Cracking
Quantum computing will give people and institutions an enormous amount of computing power, but it will also make their data vulnerable to attack. For Julia Kempe...
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Creator of Cloth Simulation Software Tapped for ACM SIGGRAPH Award
ACM SIGGRAPH has awarded its 2009 Computer Graphics Achievement Award to Michael Kass, who designed a software program that replicates the movement of clothing...
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