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Splitting p Search
Researchers at Yahoo!'s Labs in Barcelona, Spain, have developed a distributed search approach that spreads the search index and additional data out over a larger...
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Triple Shadows and Fake Reflections: Future Graphics
At the second annual ACM SIGGRAPH Asia conference, which takes place December 16-19 in Yokohama, Japan, computer graphics professionals and researchers will demonstrate...
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Validity of Software Patents Goes on Trial at .s. Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court will consider what types of inventions should be eligible for a patent as part of a case that could undermine legal protections for software...
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Digital Fingerprints Aid Video Search
The explosive growth of video on the Internet calls for new ways of sorting and searching audiovisual content. A team of European researchers has developed a groundbreaking...
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Adding a Sixth Sense to Your Cellphone
Many Indians bought their first mobile phones before they had their first experiences with personal computers. Pranav Mistry thinks that most of them might also...
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Splitting p Search
Searching the Web could become faster for users and much more efficient for search companies if search engines were split up and distributed around the world, according...
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M Research Leads to Improved Human, Object Detection Technology
University of Missouri researchers are developing software that would enable computers to search within videos and identify humans and specific objects, as well...
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Tim Berners-Lee: Machine-Readable Web Still a Ways Off
World Wide Web creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee says the machine-readable Web is still a ways off and faces numerous obstacles. He says recent initiatives such as the...
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Online Collaboration With Built-In Clarity
Software packages that interoperate while providing online users with an overview of their colleagues' work may finally lessen the dominance of email as the world's...
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Virtual Crashes and Clatters Get Real
The clatter of a dropped trash can and the crash of a cymbal – both easily recognisable sounds. That's why computer games or CGI movies that feature such noises...
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Nist Test Proves 'the Eyes Have It' For Id Verification
The intricate structure of the iris constitutes a powerful biometric. A new report from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) demonstrates that...
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Nsf Awards $20 Million to Sdsc to Develop Shared-Memory Supercomputer
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego has been awarded a five-year, $20 million grant from the U.S. National Science...
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AI Spacesuits Turn Astronauts Into Cyborg Biologists
Wired NewsA research team led by University of Chicago geoscientist Patrick McGuire has successfully tested a feature-identifying system that could one day be used...
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New Keys for the Diffusion of Information in Social Networks
Information in social networks travels at an unexpectedly slow pace over the Internet with the exception of a few mass events, according to a study by researchers...
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HTML 5 Progresses Despite Challenges
Development of HTML5 is progressing, but the highly anticipated upgrade to the Web language still faces some major hurdles, particularly its lack of a standard...
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Amir Pnueli, Distinguished Computer Scientist and Researcher, Dies
Amir Pnueli, a professor of Computer Science at New York University and winner of the 1996 ACM A. M. Turing Award, died suddenly on November 2 of a brain hemorrhage...
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Social Networking Meets Ambient Intelligence
Sharing small snippets of information about your daily life is a key feature of the online social networking revolution. Soon status updates and other social information...
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Software That Fixes Itself
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers led by professor Martin Rinard have developed ClearView, software capable of finding and fixing certain types...
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Social Networks Thrive By Linking
"Reaching out, not building walls" might be one way to characterize the process of social networking. It is also an apt description of the core competitive strategy...
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