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Data Sorting World Record Falls: Computer Scientists Break Terabyte Sort Barrier in 60 Seconds
Computer scientists from the
University of California,
San Diego broke "the
terabyte barrier" -- and a
world record -- when they
... > full story
Invention Enables People With Disabilities Communicate and Steer a Wheelchair by Sniffing
Neurobiologists and
electrical engineers have
invented a new technology
that lets the severely
disabled communicate or
... > full story
Radical New Computer Memory? Emergent Resistance Network Suggests Mechanism for Colossal Magnetoresistance
Research has revealed new
clues on the microscopic
processes by which
resistance in certain
materials is dramatically
... > full story
Organic Nanoelectronics a Step Closer
Scientists have effectively
discovered a way to order
the molecules in the PEDOT,
the single most industrially
important conducting
polymer. ... > full story
- Data Sorting World Record Falls: Computer Scientists Break Terabyte Sort Barrier in 60 Seconds
- Invention Enables People With Disabilities Communicate and Steer a Wheelchair by Sniffing
- Radical New Computer Memory? Emergent Resistance Network Suggests Mechanism for Colossal Magnetoresistance
- Organic Nanoelectronics a Step Closer
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Who Gives a Tweet? Nuanced Feedback for Microbloggers
July 27, 2010 — Researchers are launching a study to understand what aspects of Twitter content are considered valuable, and how that impacts presentation and perception of online ... > full story -
More Accurate Than Heisenberg Allows? Uncertainty in the Presence of a Quantum Memory
July 27, 2010 — Quantum cryptography is the safest way to encrypt data. It utilizes the fact that transmitted information can only be measured with a strictly limited degree of precision. Scientists have now ... > full story -
Position-Based Quantum Cryptography: New Method for Securing Location-Sensitive Data
July 26, 2010 — Computer scientists have proved that cryptography, the practice and study of hiding information, based solely on location is possible by using quantum mechanics. This allows one to encrypt and ... > full story -
Virtual Reality Gives Insight on Protein Structures
July 24, 2010 — To understand a protein, it helps to get inside of it, and a professor has now figured out a way to do so. A new computer software program and projection system lets a person look at ... > full story -
Supercomputer Reproduces a Cyclone's Birth, May Boost Forecasting
July 23, 2010 — Scientists have employed NASA's Pleiades supercomputer and atmospheric data to simulate tropical cyclone Nargis -- with the first model to replicate the formation of the tropical cyclone five days in ... > full story -
Data Mining Made Faster: New Method Eases Analysis of 'Multidimensional' Information
July 22, 2010 — To many big companies, you aren't just a customer, but are described by multiple "dimensions" of information within a computer database. Now, a computer scientist has devised a new method for ... > full story -
Poplar Tree Protein Can Be Used to Shrink Memory Elements and Increase Computer Memory Density
July 21, 2010 — Scientists in Israel have succeeded in showing how it is possible to greatly expand the memory capacity of future computers through the use of memory units based on silica nanoparticles combined with ... > full story
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