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Racing, Shooting, and Zapping Your Way to Better Visual Cognition Skills
Regular video gamers are fast and accurate information processors, not only during game play, but in real-life situations as well, according to a new study in Current...
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Virginia Tech Team to Build Battlefield Robots For 2010 Competition
The roving, walking robotic soldiers of the "Terminator" films are becoming less sci-fi and more certain future every day. Now, a team of robotics researchers from...
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ACM India to Launch in January
The first major event for the ACM community in India is set for January 21, 2010 in Bangalore. The ACM India Launch Event will be a full day event featuring speakers...
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Insurgents Hack .s. Drones
Militants in Iraq have used $26 off-the-shelf software to intercept live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones, potentially providing them with information they...
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NexGen Air Transport System to ltimately Succeed, Computer Scientist Predicts
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has begun implementing the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NexGen) across the United States. University...
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Surgery on Beating Heart Thanks to Robotic Helping Hand
Researchers at France's Montpellier Laboratory of Informatics, Robotics, and Microelectronics have developed a computerized three-dimensional (3D) model that enables...
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Advancing STEM Education
Seven institutions received funding in fiscal year 2009 through Innovation through Institutional Integration, or I3 — an effort intended to link institutions' existing...
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A Deluge of Data Shapes a New Era in Computing
In a speech given just a few weeks before he was lost at sea off the California coast in January 2007, Jim Gray, a database software pioneer and a Microsoft researcher...
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Wales Gets
The Welsh Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) has announced HPC Wales, a new high-performance computing (HPC) institute that will provide the industrial...
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Pandemic Toolkit Offers Flu With a View
Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) are developing the Pandemic Influenza Planning Tool, an analytic toolkit...
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Of Girls and Geeks: Why Women Don't Like Computer Science
The stereotype of computer scientists as nerds who stay up all night coding and have no social life may be driving women away from the field, according to a new...
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Learning Computer Science From Scratch
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researcher Mitchel Resnick and colleagues at the MIT Media Lab have enjoyed great success with Scratch, a computer programming...
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Team Wins Insights and Second Place in DARPA Network Challenge
A national competition aimed at quickly locating 10 red weather balloons tethered at locations across the United States netted a second-place finish for a Georgia...
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IBM Sets p Centers of Excellence in Karnataka
IBM has established Centers of Excellence (CoE) in 10 colleges across Karnataka, India, aimed at creating a platform for the development of software skills among...
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Smart Cctv Learns to Spot Suspicious Types
An international team of computer scientists at Queen Mary, University of London are developing intelligent video-surveillance software designed to spot suspicious...
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A Week to Focus on Computer Science Education
The U.S. House of Representatives has designated Dec. 6-12 Computer Science Education Week to help raise awareness of the dearth of computer science in grades K...
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So, That Explains the Headache
A new University of California, San Diego (UCSD) study found that the average U.S. citizen consumes 34 gigabytes of information per day outside of the workplace...
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Locating Ieds with Scare Technology
University of Maryland researchers have developed and successfully tested new computer software and computational techniques to analyze patterns of improvised explosive...
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'one Keypad Per Child' Lets Schoolchildren Share Screen to Learn Math
University of Washington computer science undergraduates have developed a system that lets up to four students share a single computer to do interactive math problems...
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