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Cloud Interoperability Week: Boosting Collaboration and Innovation

The Cloud Interoperability Week will combine workshops, conferences, demonstrations and testing sessions to explore and extend the level of interoperability of…

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Wayne State University researcher’s technique helps robotic vehicles find their way, help humans

In a paper recently published in the journal IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Weisong Shi, Ph.D., associate professor of computer science…

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Bridging Research and Practice: Advancing Innovation Today

Without research, progress and innovation would grind to a halt. But how research findings are put into practice is a subject that must be investigated in…

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BIG Project: Smart Data Solutions for Tomorrow’s Challenges

The project is necessary because today's systems and databases will soon no longer be able to handle the increasingly huge flood of information that is being…

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In Speed Test, Quantum Beats Conventional Computing

A computer science professor at Amherst College who recently devised and conducted experiments to test the speed of a quantum computing system against…

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UF launches HiPerGator, the state’s most powerful supercomputer

The HiPerGator supercomputer and recent tenfold increase in the size of the university’s data pipeline make UF one of the nation’s leading public universities…

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Discovering Contextual Search: Transforming Online Content

This concept, called “contextual search,” is improving so gradually the changes often go unnoticed, and we may soon forget what the world was like without it,…

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Scientists Use Satellites, Underwater Robot to Study Atlantic Sturgeon Migrations

Researchers at the University of Delaware and Delaware State University are using satellites, acoustic transmitters, an underwater robot and historical records…

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New Tools for Optimizing Business Models and Development Processes

The free offers, which are available online, build upon a growing data base and offer empirically based recommendations. They are results of research projects…

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Scientists Set a New Simulation Speed Record on the Sequoia Supercomputer

In a paper to be published in May, the joint team will announce a record-breaking simulation speed of 504 billion events per second on LLNL’s Sequoia Blue…

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Saarbrücken computer scientists’ anti-spyware app crosses one million downloads

To address this issue, Saarland University computer scientists developed an anti-spyware app. As of today, the app has been downloaded more than a million…

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Twitter’s Role in Crisis Communication for Police: A Study

Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT, the Rotterdam School of Management and the COT Institute in The Hague analyzed…

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Shape-Shifting Mobile Devices: Exploring Shape Resolution Innovation

The research paper, to be presented at one of the world's most important conferences on human-computer interfaces, will introduce the term 'shape resolution'…

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New Insights on Evolvability’s Role in Evolutionary Origins

In a paper published this week in PLOS ONE, the researchers report that evolvability can increase over generations regardless of whether species are competing…

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Smartphone Gunfire Tracking: Vanderbilt’s Innovative Tech Solution

A team of computer engineers from Vanderbilt University’s Institute of Software Integrated Systems has made such a scenario possible by developing an…

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Fraunhofer IPA Launches Innovative Mobile Emergency Assistant

At REHACARE 2012, Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation unveiled a pioneering mobile emergency assistance system that combines an…

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