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Researchers Develop Drug Interface to Save Lives
University of Alberta researchers have developed software that enables users to research information on drugs that may have been taken accidentally. Alberta professors...
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Olpc nveils Slimline Tablet Pc
One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) recently announced that the latest version of the XO laptop series, the XO-3, will be available in 2012 and will cost less than $100...
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Scholars Test Emotion-Sensitive Tutoring Software
University of Massachusetts Amherst's Beverly Park Woolf and Ivon M. Arroyo, along with Arizona State University's Winslow Burleson have developed an intelligent...
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Financial Instruments Could Be Spiked With nfindable Risks
Princeton University researchers report that sellers of financial derivatives could intentionally include pieces of bad risk that buyers couldn't detect with even...
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Trading Shares in Milliseconds
Today's stock market has become a world of automated transactions executed at lightning speed. This high-frequency trading could make the financial system more...
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How Intelligent Vehicles Will Increase the Capacity of Our Roads
Traffic flow will improve as more computer-controlled vehicles hit the road, according to new research from Arne Kesting and colleagues at the Technical University...
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Do Computers nderstand Art?
Researchers from the University of Girona and the Max Planck Institute have demonstrated that certain mathematical algorithms can offer clues about a painting's...
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Obama Cyber Czar Choice Worries About Smartphones, Social Networking
Howard Schmidt, U.S. President Obama's choice for cybersecurity czar, has previously worked in both the public and private security sectors and also has written...
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R&d Spending in .s. Expected to Rebound
The United States recorded its first annual decline in spending on research and development (R&D) since 2002, as R&D spending this year fell about 3.8 percent to...
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Women's Issues in Science and Engineering Take Center Stage
The focus of the recent Women in Science and Engineering Workshop was the challenges that female scientists and engineers must contend with. The goal of the workshop...
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Computer Science Education: It's Not Shop Class
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has a plan to reform U.S. high school computer science education by giving the curriculum a much-needed update. NSF...
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Computer Identifies Authentic Van Gogh
Tilburg University Ph.D. student Igor Berezhnoy has used artificial intelligence to develop new digital technology for analyzing the authenticity of paintings....
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As Attacks Increase, .s. Struggles to Recruit Computer Security Experts
Cyberattacks are increasing in frequency and sophistication at a time when the U.S. government is struggling to address a shortage of proficient computer security...
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Cyber Security Shortcomings at Nuclear Labs?
The U.S. Department of Energy, which is responsible for the nation's nuclear weapons and nuclear energy, may jeopardize the security of its technology and lose...
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Obama to Name Chief of Cybersecurity
Nearly seven months after highlighting the vulnerability of banking, energy and communications systems to Internet attacks, the White House on Tuesday is expected...
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Putting the Squeeze on Data
Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Piotr Indyk and graduate student Radu Berinde last year introduced two versions of a linear data-compression algorithm...
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Stanford Technology Helps Scholars Get 'big Picture' of the Enlightenment
Stanford University professors Dan Edelstein and Paula Findlen used visualization technology developed by professor Jeff Heer to map thousands of letters that were...
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Robot Assists Surgeon in Removal of Lung Tumor
When Craig Harrison found out he would be the first patient in North Texas to have robot-assisted lung-tumor surgery, an operation performed at UT Southwestern...
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Give a Humanist a Supercomputer . . .
Humanities researchers involved in the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Department of Energy's high-performance computing competition provided updates...
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