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.s. Cyber Command Prepped to Launch
Washingon's new U.S. Cyber Command is prepped and ready but is still waiting for Senate approval of its new commander before it can open for business.
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Network Gives Traffic Managers, Police Real-Time View of Road Conditions
University of Maryland researchers have developed the Regional Integrated Transportation Information System, a system that gives traffic managers and police in...
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Mini Generators Make Energy from Random Ambient Vibrations
Tiny generators developed at the University of Michigan could produce enough electricity from random, ambient vibrations to power a wristwatch, pacemaker or wireless...
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Sandia to Break Ground For New Computational Laboratories Building
Sandia National Laboratories is breaking ground for a new facility—the Combustion Research Computation and Visualization building, part of the Combustion Research...
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Bias Called Persistent Hurdle For Women in Sciences
Cultural biases are still hindering the progress of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers, according to an American Association...
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Nine Prace Prototypes Are Available For Testing
Researchers from academia and industry have until April 11, 2010, to submit applications for an opportunity to test prototypes of potential future high-performance...
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Cyber Warriors
Purdue University's Eugene Spafford says that cybercrime has evolved into a well-financed enterprise perpetrated by mature individuals and groups of professionals...
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Wireless Controlled From the Cloud
IBM China Research Lab scientists have developed Wireless Network Cloud, a new architecture that shifts the signal-processing requirements of wireless networks...
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Silicon Valley Loses Foreign Talent
Silicon Valley is losing more foreign-born executives, engineers, and scientists due to better opportunities in their native countries, tough U.S. immigration laws...
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Collaboration With IBM to Speed Up 'the Cloud'
Cornell University professor Hakim Weatherspoon and IBM researchers are studying the causes of data distortions and are developing ways for cloud computing applications...
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A Swiss Army Knife For Analyzing Three-Dimensional Images
Howard Hughes Medical Institute computer scientists have developed V3D, a software suite that features tools for visualizing, analyzing, and measuring complex,...
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Frank Moss: Tech to Help Those Who Can't Help Themselves
Frank Moss, head of the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says there are real opportunities in developing technology for disabled or disadvantaged...
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Mobile Learning with iPhone Now Possible
Peruvian and Belgian researchers have developed an open source mobile learning application that enables health-care workers to connect to the free learning platform...
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Uk Promises
The U.K. Government has announced the creation of the new Institute for Web Science, to be headed by World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners Lee, and leading Web...
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The Internet of Cars
An Internet of cars promises a road system designed around cooperative technology enabling each element of the traffic system—cars, drivers, traffic lights, signs—to...
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Academic Paper in China Sets Off Alarms in .s.
Wang Jianwei, a graduate engineering student in Liaoning, China, who was described as a potential cyberwarrior before the United States Congress this month, says...
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National Free Software Coalition Formed in India
Delegates at the National Free Software conference in Bangalore, India, announced the formation of a national coalition, the National Free Software Movement of...
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Dismantling of Saudi-CIA Web Site Ilustrates Need For Clearer Cyberwar Policies
By early 2008, top U.S. military officials had become convinced that extremists planning attacks on American forces in Iraq were making use of a Web site set up...
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Big Brother at the Movies: Can They Really Do That?
When it comes to portraying Big Brother on the big screen, how close is Hollywood fiction to real-world fact? Intercepting private cell phone calls. Deploying...
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