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Cybersecurity Protects Food, Agriculture
Protecting the U.S. food supply from cyberattack.
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Supercomputing From Clusters to Clouds
The Intrepid supercomputer is the largest installation of IBM's Blue Gene architecture to date. Part of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, the $77 million...
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Visual System Detects Movement, Colors and Textures
A University of Granada research team has evaluated the accuracy of several models that estimate movement, and combined the responses of four movement detection...
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Extracting Meaning From Millions of Pages
University of Washington researchers have developed an automated information extraction software engine that mines meaning out of more than 500 million Web pages...
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Cloud Computing Goes Global
Three far-flung research organizations have joined the cloud computing test bed run by Hewlett-Packard, Intel, and Yahoo. The locations of these new converts —...
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University Deploys 'world's Largest' 802.11 Wireless Network
The University of Queensland (UQ) says it is implementing the biggest 802.11n wireless network in the world to serve as a platform for research, access, and collaboration...
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Drawing Inspiration From Nature to Build a Better Radio
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) engineers have developed a fast, ultra-broadband, low-power radio chip for use in wireless devices. MIT professor Rahul...
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Computer Program Will Detect, Measure Brain Tumors
University of Central Florida professor Mubarak Shah is using the techniques used to detect suspicious activity in airports, stadiums, and other public places to...
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Research Has All the Right Moves
Researchers at Newcastle University have developed a motion-capture device that makes it easier to identify the different aspects of movement or sequences. Users...
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Nist Team Deeply Studying Cloud Computing
The National Institute for Standards and Technology's (NIST's) interest in cloud computing goes beyond developing a definition for the concept. NIST views the...
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'smart Grid' Power Lines Move Into the Digital Age
Thomas Alva Edison, meet the Internet. More than a century after Edison invented a reliable light bulb, the nation's electricity distribution system, an aging spider...
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The Bar Code Is Taking a Leap Forward
Look closely at recent supermarket coupons, and you may see some new markings on them near the traditional bar code: sets of neat black bars stacked in two rows...
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Network Creates Virtual Super-Telescope
Vast quantities of data are transferred in real time from telescopes around the world to a supercomputer in The Netherlands, where European researchers combine...
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China Dominates Nsa-Backed Coding Contest
Programmers from China and Russia have dominated an international competition on everything from writing algorithms to designing components. Whether the outcome...
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China Defends Web-Filtering Software Requirement
China on Tuesday (June 9) defended a new requirement that personal computers sold in the country carry a software that filters online content, saying the program...
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Moon Magic: Tool To Visualize Past, Future Lunar Eclipses
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new method for using computer graphics to simulate and render an accurate visualization of a lunar...
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Mathematical Model Effectively Screens Airline Passengers
Passenger screenings at the nation's airports can be conducted more efficiently without compromising aviation security, according to research at Virginia Commonwealth...
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Obama Administration Begins Work on Cybersecurity R&d
A major aspect of U.S. President Barack Obama's plan to improve the country's cyberdefenses involves maximizing government investment in cybersecurity research...
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Study: Web Trackers Systematically Compromise Users' Privacy
A University of California, Berkeley study found that Web users may be tracked by dozens of sources on a visit to a single site. Within a single month, the researchers...
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Looking to Nature For Smarter Software Systems
Mike Hinchey, the director of the NASA Software Engineering Laboratory and co-director of the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, says that software engineering...
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