If I Can Get Wi-Fi Here, I Can Get It Anywhere
New York has ambitious plans for its extensive network of pay telephones.
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Shellshock Awakens Bourne-Again Zombies
A bug appears in places people didn’t think to look, or patch.
Agriculture Is Becoming a ‘model Citizen’
New tools not only make farmers' calculations more accurate and their lives less labor-intensive, but also portend of better dissemination of data about agriculture’s impact literally downstream.
Still Seeking the Optical Transistor
Optical information handling is a critical staple for communications and the Internet, but using light for computer-scale computation remains a distant dream.
Museums Go High-Tech with Digital Forensics
Scientists are using cutting-edge scanning and visualization techniques to wow visitors and find new stories in ancient artifacts.
Existing Delivery Techniques Could Hinder Internet Protocol Revolution
Named Data Networking Consortium supports an emerging Internet architecture designed for an increasingly mobile world.
Researchers are working to add smell, taste, and touch to the digital world, but significant challenges remain.
Seeking Human Cyber Consciousness
An American lawyer, author, and entrepreneur is using computer science to advance towards "the coming age of our own cyber consciousness and techno-immortality."
Google and Edx Put ‘youtube For Courses’ Platform on Hold
Their collaboration opens the edX platform to some new organizations, but individuals will have to wait a while longer.
How do you create structures on other worlds when the expense of carrying building materials there is so great?
It Certifications Pay Off, If Chosen Wisely
The proper certification can help you get a job, a raise, and sometimes a promotion.
Internet Routing Failures Bring Architecture Changes Back to the Table
Significant reductions in the space needed for IPv4 routes could be made if service providers aggregated more of their routes.
Weathering a New Era of Big Data
Increased computing power combined with new and more advanced models are changing weather forecasting.
Affordable, connected, personal medical devices are slowly changing the nature of health care.
Beer Taps the Internet of Things
Industry-specific technology tracks how quickly kegs are drained and help purveyors charge for every last drop.
Alternatives For the Mouse-Averse
Controlling computers with gestures offers greater potential than a mouse ever could.
Computing’s Narrow Focus May Hinder Women’s Participation
More women pursue fields in which computing is part of a larger context.
nique Games Conjecture Results in Nevanlinna Prize
Theoretical computer scientist Subhash Khot is recognized for his "prescient definition of the ‘Unique Games’ problem" and for "leading the effort to understand its complexity and its pivotal role in the study of efficient approximation of optimization problems."
Who’s Teaching the Computer Science Teachers?
Introducing computer science to students early in their educational careers will require teachers who are trained to teach it.
Surgical Robots Deliver Care More Precisely
Computer-controlled robotic surgical systems and tumor-targeting radiation systems provide a greater level of precision in treatment than doctors alone can provide.
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