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Security Key to Unlocking Cloud Potential
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Security Key to Unlocking Cloud Potential

The issue of security is holding back its full potential of cloud computing. This was the gist of the keynote message presented Tuesday (March 2) by Art Coviello...

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Study: Google-China Attack Driven by Amateurs

The computer attack which led Google to threaten leaving China and created a firestorm between Washington and Beijing appears to have been deployed by amateurs,...

U.s. Won't Succeed If India Has More Scientists: Obama
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U.s. Won't Succeed If India Has More Scientists: Obama

President Barack Obama has said that the U.S. is facing stiff competition from India and cannot succeed if the country continues to produce more scientists and...

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New Energy Harvesting Network Means Batteries Not Included

The new Energy Harvesting Network will offer U.K. researchers a resource for energy harvesting (EH) technology. The  network will give academics, industry, and...

Student-Run Business Wins Epa Energy-Optimization Contract
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Student-Run Business Wins Epa Energy-Optimization Contract

A company founded and run by Missouri University of Science and Technology students recently received its first federal contract, and hopes to parlay that funding...

Free Systems Biology Markup Language Has Proven Popular
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Free Systems Biology Markup Language Has Proven Popular

A scientific paper that describes a file format used by scientists to represent models of biological processes has exceeded 500 citations in the ISI Web of Knowledge...

Tomorrow's Forecast: Clear With a Chance of Tremors
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Tomorrow's Forecast: Clear With a Chance of Tremors

The goal of the Southern California Earthquake Center's CyberShake project is to accurately predict earthquake activity for the next 50 years. The CyberShake predictions...

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Hp Labs Opens Singapore Research Hub

Hewlett-Packard (HP) Labs announced the opening of a new research and development  center in Singapore. The Singapore lab will work on research in cloud computing...

Prace Evaluated Additional Prototypes For Next Generation Architectures
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Prace Evaluated Additional Prototypes For Next Generation Architectures

The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe's work package for future petaflop computer technologies beyond 2010 recently assessed 12 prototypes for next-generation...

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Ibm Speeds ­p Data Analysis With New Algorithm

Researchers at IBM's laboratories in Zurich have developed a new algorithm that can sort, correlate, and analyze millions of random data sets in minutes. 

Tech Industry Searching For Girls Gone Geek
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Tech Industry Searching For Girls Gone Geek

The flagging attraction of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) professions to young women is partly attributed to the geek factor, or the perception...

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Professors Find Ways to Keep Heads Above 'exaflood' of Data

Researchers remain optimistic about the prospect of keeping track of the exaflood of data, from gene sequences and distant pulsar signals to YouTube videos and...

Game Trains Soldiers in a Virtual Iraq or Afghanistan
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Game Trains Soldiers in a Virtual Iraq or Afghanistan

University of Texas at Dallas researchers are developing First Person Cultural Trainer, a computer training tool designed to make it easier for military personnel...

To Create Jobs, Streamline Technology Transfer, Report Says
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To Create Jobs, Streamline Technology Transfer, Report Says

Job creation in the U.S. will largely depend on start-up companies and entrepreneurs who populate university research parks, laboratories and incubators across...

The Mathematics Behind a Good Night's Sleep
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The Mathematics Behind a Good Night's Sleep

Professor of Mathematics Mark Holmes and his graduate student Lisa Rogers are using math to develop a new computer model that can be easily manipulated by other...

Lights, Camera, Action: Cue the Goldfish
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Lights, Camera, Action: Cue the Goldfish

Biologist Scott McRobert, professor of biology at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, Pa., developed "Fish Cam," an online site for students of all ages...

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Physicists Build Basic Quantum Computing Circuit

Exerting delicate control over a pair of atoms within a mere seven-millionths-of-a-second window of opportunity, physicists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison...

Architects and Engineers Bridge the Grid Chasm
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Architects and Engineers Bridge the Grid Chasm

In the technology adoption cycle, a chasm separates powerful new technologies from the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) that could most benefit from them. Now...

Sat-Nav Systems ­nder Growing Threat from 'jammers'
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Sat-Nav Systems ­nder Growing Threat from 'jammers'

Technology that depends on satellite-navigation signals is increasingly threatened by attack from widely available equipment, experts say. While "jamming" sat-nav...

Making Sense of Mountains of Data
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Making Sense of Mountains of Data

"How do you take a big collection of things and make sense out of it?" asks Gary Flake, founder and director of Microsoft Live Labs, a division of the softwarePivot...
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