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'Rugged' Initiative Brings Secure Software Development to the Masses
The Rugged Software Development Initiative (RSDI) was recently launched by security experts in an effort to ensure that the software writing process considers security...
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Chinese, Russian Universities Claim Top Spots in Acm Programming Competition
Three Chinese teams and four Russian teams dominated the top ten rankings of the 2010 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC). Shanghai Jiaotong...
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Searching For Disease Clues in Genetic Diversity
Over the last few years, scientists have discovered hundreds of genetic variants linked to disease. But the vast majority of that research has focused on people...
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Unplugged: Goodbye Cables, Hello Energy Beams
LET'S face it: power cables are unsightly dust-traps. PCs, TVs and music players are becoming slicker every year, but the nest of vipers in the corner of everyAn...
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Google engineers are working on a translator for Google Android smartphones to convert one language into another quickly enough to allow speakers without a common...
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Stanford's Robotic Audi to Brave Pikes Peak Without a Driver
A team of researchers at the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford (CARS) has filled the trunk of an Audi TTS with computers and GPS receivers, transforming...
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Google to Enlist Nsa to Help It Ward Off Cyberattacks
Google and the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) are collaborating to fortify defenses against future cyberattacks. NSA will assist Google in studying an assault...
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Brewing p Java Skills For the Knowledge Economy
University College Dublin's School of Computer Science and Informatics will offer a second round of Java courses to companies that do not have the time and money...
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The Dozens of Computers That Make Modern Cars Go (and Stop)
Modern cars and trucks contain as many 100 million lines of computer code, more than in some jet fighters. "It would be easy to say the modern car is a computer...
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Code Defends Against 'stealthy' Computer Worms
Pennsylvania State University researchers have developed an algorithm that defends against the spread of local scanning worms that search for hosts in "local" spaces...
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Darpa's New Plans: Crowdsource Intel, Edit Dna
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA's) future plans call for crowdsourcing military intelligence, creating an immune system for Defense...
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Indo-German Center on Computer Science Opened at Iit, Delhi
The Indian government and the Max Planck Society have formally unveiled a new center in Delhi that will serve as a hub for collaboration between computer scientists...
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Madly Mapping the niverse
Researchers at Berkeley Lab's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center are designing computational tools to create maps of the cosmic microwave background...
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Interactive Board Games Will Come to Life
Queen's University researchers have built the prototype of an interactive board game that enables users to touch tiles together or "pour" the contents of a tile...
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.s. Scientists Given Access to Cloud Computing
The National Science Foundation and the Microsoft Corporation have agreed to offer American scientific researchers free access to the company’s new cloud computing...
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Seven CS Researchers Selected For Recovery Act Early Career Funds
Seven computer science researchers supported by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) are among 69 scientists...
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.s. House Passes Bill to Bolster Cybersecurity
The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday (February 4) overwhelmingly approved a bill aimed at protecting the Internet and vulnerable computer networks by funding...
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Nasa and Gm Develop 'robonaut2' Robot
Engineers from NASA and General Motors have jointly developed what they tout as "the world's most dexterous robot" called "Robonaut2" to supplement human activity...
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De-Worming Software More Effective at Detecting Infected Network Computers Before Contagion Can Spread
More than a year after being launched by hackers on a campaign to infect computers running Microsoft Windows, the Conficker worm's effects are still being felt....
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