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Reconfigurable Hardware Delivers Design Flexibility
Technology is struggling to meet demands for high-performance, specialised computing systems. A European consortium is responding with a new kind of reconfigurable...
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'instant On' Computing
Researchers supported by the National Science Foundation have achieved a breakthrough in adding ferroelectric materials to silicon, without intervening reaction...
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Funding Supports Diamond-Based Quantum Information Processing and Communication
University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) scientists say that diamonds could revolutionize quantum mechanics in computing by enabling ultra-secure communications...
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Squeezed Ferroelectric Material Could Lead to 'instant On' Memory Devices
Low-power, high-efficiency electronic memory could be the long-term result of collaborative research led by Cornell University scientist Darrell Schlom (pictured)...
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Quantum Theory May Explain Wishful Thinking
Humans don't always make the most rational decisions. Even when logic and reasoning point in one direction, sometimes we chose the opposite route, motivated by...
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Natural 'barcodes' Help US Recognize Faces
Humans recognize faces by organizing facial features such as eyebrows, eyes, and lips into horizontal lines of information, say Dr. Steven Dakin of the University...
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Could Quantum Mathematics Shake Up Google?
Pedro Carpena, a physicist at the University of Malaga in Spain, has used a mathematical technique for studying disorder in quantum systems to extract keywords...
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Keep On Spinning
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Materials Science Division researchers have made a major advancement in spintronics by controlling the spin states of highly...
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Quantum Computers Will Require Complex Software to Manage Errors
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) theorists have demonstrated that a type of software operation, believed to be a solution to the fundamental...
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Virus-Built Battery Could Power Cars, Electronic Devices
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers led by professor Angela Belcher have developed batteries by genetically engineering viruses to build the...
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Move Over, Newton: Scientifically Ignorant Computer Derives Natural Laws From Raw Data
Cornell University researchers have developed an algorithm that can identify regularities in the natural world that represent natural laws. The researchers tested...
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Recent Research Tackles the Complexity of Self-Awareness
Researchers at the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid's School of Computing are using modular neural networks to model cognitive functions related to awareness and...
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A New Step Towards Quantum Computers
Researchers from Dortmound, St. Petersburg, Washington, and the Rurh-Universitaet-Bochum (RUB) in Germany have succeeded in aligning electron spin. The researchers...
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Mathematical System Helps to Cut Bus Journey Times
Researchers from the University of Burgos (UBU) have used heuristic algorithms and the "taboo search" method to improve bus service in Burgos, Spain. The approach...
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Acm Awards Recognize Innovators Who Solve Real World Problems
ACM has announced the winners of five prestigious awards honoring innovations in computing technology that benefit society through their profound impact on the...
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ACM Turing Award Goes to Creator of Influential Innovations in Computer Software Design
ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named Barbara Liskov of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) the winner of the 2008 ACM A.M. Turing...
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Swedish Research Can Make Super Mario More Realistic
Thomas Larsson, a researcher at Sweden's Malardalen University, has developed a new approach for calculating collisions involving animated objects in computer games...
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Researchers Discover a Potential On-Off Switch For Nanoelectronics
Berkeley Lab News CenterResearchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Columbia University have demonstrated that electrical...
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Excited Atoms Advance Quantum Computing
National Science FoundationThe dream of quantum computing has come a step closer to reality through National Science Foundation-funded research into atomic manipulation...
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