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Hack-a-vote: Students learn how vulnerable electronic voting really is

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This week undergraduate and graduate students in an advanced computer security course at Rice University in Houston are learning hands-on just how easy it is to wreak havoc on computer software used in today's voting machines.


CERN openlab boosts the performance of LHC computing

October 06, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 3

The LHC Grid Fest, held last Friday at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, and at several sites around the world, commemorated the readiness of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG). At full capacity, the Large Hadron Collider ...


Visualizing election polls

October 06, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 5 vote(s) | No comments yet

Do you want to know the percentage of white women who support vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin? What about college-educated versus high school-educated white women? Or those who also hunt?


Computer hardware 'guardians' protect users from undiscovered bugs

October 01, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 8 vote(s) | No comments yet

As computer processor chips grow faster and more complex, they are likely to make it to market with more design bugs. But that may be OK, according to University of Michigan researchers who have devised a system that lets ...


See what I see -- machines with mental muscle

October 01, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

(PhysOrg.com) -- The way we use and interact with machines is undergoing a profound change as computers are programmed to learn from experience and see more how we see. European research into machine learning ...


Computer hardware 'guardians' protect users from undiscovered bugs

September 30, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 12 vote(s) | User comments: 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- As computer processor chips grow faster and more complex, they are likely to make it to market with more design bugs. But that may be OK, according to University of Michigan researchers who have devised a ...


Step right up, let the computer look at your face and tell you your age

September 23, 2008 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 15 vote(s) | No comments yet

People who hope to keep their age a secret won't want to go near a computer running this software. Like an age-guesser at a carnival, computer software being developed at the University of Illinois can fairly accurately estimate ...


GPS receivers can be 'spoofed,' say researchers

September 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 31 vote(s) | User comments: 10

(PhysOrg.com) -- Just like flat-screen televisions, cell phones and computers, global positioning system (GPS) technology is becoming something people can't imagine living without. So if such a ubiquitous ...


First 3-D processor runs at 1.4 Ghz on new architecture

September 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 74 vote(s) | User comments: 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- The next major advance in computer processors will likely be the move from today's two-dimensional chips to three-dimensional circuits, and the first three-dimensional synchronization circuitry is now running ...


Keeping computing compatible

September 25, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

(PhysOrg.com) -- As distributed computing becomes universal, the programs that make devices work really have to work together. European researchers have gone back to basics to create a development toolkit that guarantees ...


Putting pictures into words

September 16, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

(PhysOrg.com) -- Visual images can contain a wealth of information, but they are difficult to catalogue in a searchable way. European researchers are generating and combining scraps of information to create a searchable picture.


From Xbox to T-cells: Michigan Tech researchers borrow video game technology to model human biology

September 16, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 7 vote(s) | No comments yet

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers at Michigan Technological University is harnessing the computing muscle behind the leading video games to understand the most intricate of real-life systems.


Music, CompuMaestro -- like Radiohead, please...

September 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 9 vote(s) | No comments yet

It's an archetypal exchange in musical performance. A vocalist stands poised to perform. The guitarist alongside is ready to add depth and harmony to the melody. The guitarist doesn't know the song but "hum ...


Internet specialists see 'clouds' gathering

September 10, 2008 | User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 15 vote(s) | User comments: 1

Making use of all the knowledge online is a huge challenge that may be solved by cloud computing, which researchers say is the next logical step for the Internet.


Stanford's 'autonomous' helicopters teach themselves to fly

September 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 51 vote(s) | User comments: 14

Stanford computer scientists have developed an artificial intelligence system that enables robotic helicopters to teach themselves to fly difficult stunts by watching other helicopters perform the same maneuvers. ...


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