Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates on Monday briefly took attendees at a company-hosted research conference back decades to the failure of Microsoft Bob and the loathed 'Clippy' to talk about opportunities in pre-emptively helping technology ...
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Bluescape is attempting to revolutionize the way businesses complete projects. During your company's last budget summit, chances are the tools you used during the meeting were probably the same ones you've been using for years: Flip ...
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A million electric cars could be on roads across North America before the end of the decade with the help of research by the University of Waterloo, U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) and Los Alamos National Laboratory. Professor Zhongwei ...
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AkzoNobel's Science Award program officially honored its first North American recipient when Carnegie Mellon University Professor Krzysztof (Kris) Matyjaszewski, Ph.D. was recognized for his cutting-edge polymer chemistry research. ...
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As developers create tiny computer devices like smartwatches, one question they face is how to make tiny keyboards usable. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University say they have a solution to that problem. They have developed what's ...
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Stanford University Professor Emeritus Edward Feigenbaum, known as "the father of expert systems," has the distinction of being named the IEEE Computer Society's 2013 Computer Pioneer Award recipient. Feigenbaum received the award "for ...
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At universities today, Cobol is mostly taught as an elective, and even then it's likely offered at less than one in four schools. For most students, this means the odds are high that they will attend a school that does not offer Cobol. ...
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The U.S. government agency leading an effort to create a voluntary cybersecurity framework for companies operating critical infrastructure wants to hear ideas about what to include in those standards. The U.S. National Institute of ...
The shutdown of Megaupload caused an increase in digital sales and rentals of movies, according to a study by two researchers, which is likely to give a boost to the movie industry, which has typically blamed online cyberlockers and ...
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AkzoNobel and the American Chemical Society (ACS) announced Carnegie Mellon University Professor Krzysztof (Kris) Matyjaszewski, Ph.D. as the winner of the inaugural AkzoNobel North America Science Award for his cutting-edge polymer ...
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Using a long phrase or a short sentence as a password may not be as secure as some security experts think. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Institute for Software Research have found that long passwords that incorporate grammar ...
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A jury in Pennsylvania has ordered chip maker Marvell Technology to pay $1.17 billion for patent infringement in one of the largest awards of its kind. The jury found that Marvell infringed two patents related to hard disk drive ...
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It was a jittery session for stocks, with shares falling more than 1 percent after Senate Majority Harry Reid warned a deal was unlikely before the deadline, only to rebound merely on the news that the House would reconvene Sunday, ...
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Computerworld - WASHINGTON - Ken Knezek, who owns a business that sells footwear, understands the importance of a sales tax. His business is in Texas, which doesn't have an income tax. Knezek's company, Bandals Southwest, sells Bandals ...
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Web and mobile device users have little understanding about how much of their personal data is collected online, making it difficult to rely on free-market competition for solutions to privacy concerns, privacy experts told the U.S. Federal ...
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