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ARPA-E: Addressing the Sputniks of our Generation March 09, 2010 The report "Rising Above the Gathering Storm" proposed the creation of the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy. The report suggested ARPA-E to be modeled after DARPA, which was created in ...

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Peter at DARPA March 02, 2010 Peter Lee, director of the new Transformational Convergence Technology Office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), shares TCTO’s mission, research areas and approaches to ...

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Bing: Intent, Knowledge and Decision Engine March 02, 2010 Microsoft released its new “decision engine” in 2009. Take a look at the design decisions and technology directions behind Bing with Harry Shum, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Corporation. ...

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The End of Anonymity, the Beginning of Privacy February 13, 2010 The new Web economy relies on the collection of personal data on an ever-increasing scale. Information about our tastes, purchases, searches, browsing history, friendships and relationships, ...

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The Cyberspace Data Explosion: Boon or Black Hole? February 13, 2010 We are entering a cyber world where millions of sensors continuously collect data. From the ocean bottom to deep space, scientists are monitoring environments at unprecedented scales. On a more ...

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Research at Google February 13, 2010 At its core, Google’s mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Alfred Z Spector, vice president of Research and Special Initiatives ...

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Energy Crisis, Smart Solutions January 06, 2010 Our nation’s electric grid must transform into an integrated digital system to meet expanding 21st century power demands. PNNL is a leading contributor in the nation’s billion-dollar push to ...

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Eye on the Universe: Final Mission to Hubble December 23, 2009 The 19-year-old Hubble Space Telescope has yielded stunning images and a remarkable scientific legacy – revealing new insight into the age of the universe, black holes and the role of "dark ...

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Computer Security Awareness Contest: Back Up ... December 09, 2009 A computer is like a big box. It can hold lots of information. Some people rely on just their computers to hold all their data. But file corruption and computer malfunction and crashes make doing ...

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Computer Security Awareness Contest: Cyber ... December 09, 2009 Don’t be caught off guard by cyber bandits! Watch this video to learn how to fight against identity theft, viruses and more. This video was the winning training video in the Computer Security ...

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Diversity Redefined in the New Affirmative ... December 09, 2009 Examine the enormous challenge academic institutions face to ensure a diverse student population without giving preference to race or gender, according to the law. Dr. Juan E. Gilbert, professor ...

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Open Data Kit: Open Source Mobile Data Collection November 14, 2009 Get ahead of the technology curve with Gaetano Borriello, Computer Science and Engineering professor at the University of Washington. Borriello reveals the latest data collection tool, Open Data ...

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The Desktop: Frontiers in Systems Research November 02, 2009 Desktop software, in the form of Web browsers, browser features and operating system distributions, are a growing area of engineering activity at Google. Brad Chen of Google, Inc. offers a look ...

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Computer Science and Engineering Distinguished ... November 02, 2009 During the last decade, haute cuisine has undergone a scientific revolution. Leading chefs have taken an interest in the science of cooking and in scientific tools found more commonly in research ...

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Computer Science and Engineering Distinguished ... November 02, 2009 More than one billion cellular devices are now shipped each year to more than four billion subscribers worldwide. More than half will soon support wide-area broadband access to the Internet with ...

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Mathematical Sculpture in Stone and Bronze November 01, 2009 This is the keynote address for the Millennial Open Symposium on the Arts and Interdisciplinary Computing, sponsored by the University of Washington Animation Research ...

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The End of Alchemy Empirical Software Security ... June 08, 2009 For more than a decade, scientists, visionaries and pundits have put forth a multitude of methodologies for building secure software, but what techniques deliver real results? Examine software ...

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Usable Privacy and Security: Protecting People ... April 04, 2009 Phishing scams are a kind of semantic attack on computer systems that target the users of computer systems, rather than the system itself. Phishing is estimated to have cost over $3 billion in ...

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The Application of Platform-Based Design to ... April 04, 2009 Platform-Based Design is a design methodology within Computer Aided Design which at its core promotes the separation of functionality from implementation. Rigorous and formal applications of PBD ...

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Network Coded Wireless Architecture April 04, 2009 Wireless is becoming the preferred mode of network access. The performance of wireless networks in practice, however, is hampered due to the harsh characteristics of the wireless medium: its ...