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Building Up the U.S. Semiconductor Industry
U.S. chipmakers await monetary support from the government a year after supporting legislation was signed into law.
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Scholarship Sponsorships For Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Announced
The Anita Borg Institute (ABI) for Women and Technology has announced that Cisco, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems will be among the sponsors for the Grace Hopper...
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Computer Scientists at Yale Develop New Hybrid Database System
Yale computer scientists recently demonstrated HadoopDB, their new open source system for managing huge amounts of data, at the VLDB conference in Lyon, France....
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Software Annotates Images For Semantic Search
Innovative software developed in Europe that makes it easier to organize, search and navigate collections of digital images will soon be available to media agencies...
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Making Global Science Networking More ser-Friendly
Computer scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago's Electronic Visualization Laboratory have received a $1.9 million grant from the U.S. National Science...
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Software System Helps Train Orthopedic Surgeons
New and experienced orthopedic surgeons can improve their surgical skills with an innovative software surveillance system that tracks their instruments during surgery...
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China Pushes Chinese Domain Mames
China has pushed ahead with deploying Internet domain names written in Chinese as it urges action to standardize their use globally. China has solved most of the...
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China's 600-Year-Old Forbidden City Comes Alive Online
China's 600-year-old Forbidden City is renovating its Web site in a move to improve its offerings of Chinese culture. According to Hu Chui, head of the Palace Museum's...
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Moral Machines
Scientists at the Universidade Nova De Lisboa, in Portugal, and the Universitas Indonesia, in Indonesia, are researching artificial intelligence and the application...
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Computer System Classifies Music By its Beat and Tempo
Taiwanese computer scientists have developed a neural network program that can classify music on its beat and tempo. Lead researchers Mao-Yuan Kao and Chang-Biau...
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ci to Test Earthquake Damage Sensors in Newport
Researchers at UC Irvine are using sensor technology to test how water pipes are damaged in an earthquake, and the results could be used to build a public alert...
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Nsf Funds CM Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Privacy and Security
Carnegie Mellon University has received a five-year, $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation to launch a Ph.D. program in usable privacy and security...
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Defying Experts, Rogue Computer Code Still Lurks
Like a ghost ship, a rogue software program that glided onto the Internet last November has confounded the efforts of top security experts to eradicate the program...
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Html 5 Steps p
Microsoft Internet Explorer developers recently offered their feedback on the most recent draft of HTML version 5. Despite the fact that the entire Web is built...
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Federal Grants Aim to Boost STEM Equity
Two programs created to get more minority and female students interested in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) subjects and careers have received...
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sing Robots to Serve the Elderly at Home
Robots that lend a very human-like helping hand to healthy elderly people with limited mobility may be on the horizon, thanks to three University of Illinois at...
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Hankering For Molecular Electronics? Grab the New Nist Sandwich
The sandwich recipe recently concocted by scientists working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) may prove tasty for computer chip designers...
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Magic Ink Offers Full-Color Printing in an Instant
Engineers at Seoul National University in South Korea have developed M-Ink, technology capable of producing full-color prints in a fraction of a second. M-Ink...
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Managing Disasters With High-Tech Imaging Could Save Lives
The Information Products Laboratory for Emergency Response, a partnership between the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and the University at Buffalo (UB)...
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Online Social Networks Leak Personal Information to Third-Party Tracking Sites
A Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) study by professor Craig Wills found that the practices of many popular social networking sites can make personal information...
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