News tagged with computer scientists
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Web site by Stanford experts monitors app security
(AP) -- With Apple Inc.'s iPad rolling out this weekend, developers are scrambling to create new applications - or apps.
Apr 03, 2010 |
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Yale Robots Dance, Gesture and, Hopefully, Spark Interest in Science
(PhysOrg.com) -- There were robotic dinosaurs, a robot that danced and one that played rock-paper-scissors. But all of the robots on display at the robotics workshop at Johns Hopkins University on March 28 ...
Apr 02, 2010 |
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Census data aid disease simulation studies
Did you know that filling out your census card will help computer scientists model how diseases spread in the United States?
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 31, 2010 |
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Database gives access to the latest findings about the tree of life
If scientists have identified some two million species, where can you find the latest information about the tree of life that unites them all? A vastly improved database gives scientists and educators access to state-of-the-art ...
Mar 29, 2010 |
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New world record in energy-efficient data processing
Scientists from Frankfurt's Goethe University and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) developed a system that substantially reduces the energy consumption for processing huge amounts of data. They improved over the ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 25, 2010 |
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UCLA Internet pioneer Leonard Kleinrock looks toward future, helps students do the same
Leonard Kleinrock has come to be known as a father of the Internet as a result of his creation of the basic principles of packet switching, the technology underpinning the Internet.
Mar 16, 2010 |
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Computational feat speeds finding of genes to milliseconds instead of years
Like a magician who says, "Pick a card, any card," Stanford University computer scientist Debashis Sahoo, PhD, seemed to be offering some kind of trick when he asked researchers at the Stanford Institute for Stem Cell Biology ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 15, 2010 |
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Researchers find weakness in RSA authentication - common digital security system
The most common digital security technique used to protect both media copyright and Internet communications has a major weakness, University of Michigan computer scientists have discovered.
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 03, 2010 |
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Earth-shaking research to predict devastation from earthquakes
The computational science expertise at the Science and Technology Facilities Council's (STFC) Daresbury Laboratory is playing a key role in enabling researchers at the National Autonomous University of Mexico ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 02, 2010 |
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Hiding the honeypots: Is it possible to hide honeypot traps from Botnet drones
Armies of networked computers that have been compromised by malicious software are commonly known as Botnets. Such Botnets are usually used to carry out fraudulent and criminal activity on the Internet. Now, writing in the ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Feb 26, 2010 |
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Researchers show new security threat against 'smart phone' users
Computer scientists at Rutgers University have shown how a familiar type of personal computer security threat can now attack new generations of smart mobile phones, with the potential to cause more serious ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Feb 22, 2010 |
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Google PageRank-like algorithm dates back to 1941
(PhysOrg.com) -- When Sergey Brin and Larry Page developed their PageRank algorithm for ranking webpages in 1998, they certainly knew that the seeds of the algorithm had been sown long before that time, as ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Feb 19, 2010 |
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Carnegie Mellon joins Open Cirrus test bed for advancing cloud computing research
Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science is the latest research institution to host a site as part of Open Cirrus, a global, open-source test bed for the advancement of cloud computing research and education.
Technology / Computer Sciences
Feb 16, 2010 |
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Google awards $1 million for research effort to slash energy consumption in Internet data centers
Google Inc. has awarded a two-year, $1 million research grant aimed at slashing energy usage in large Internet data centers to a team of computer scientists at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), Rutgers ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Feb 04, 2010 |
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Computer mimics nature by watching TV (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer scientists at the University of Bath have developed a new way of making life-like animations of trees using video footage of the real thing.
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jan 28, 2010 |
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