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Young people dealing with diabetes are being invited to test six apps and websites designed to help them better manage their condition and improve the standard of care they receive.

In the run-up to the last election warnings about computer hacking were rampant. Experts demonstrated how the hardware in voting machines could be modified.

Don R. Swanson believed laboratories weren't the only source of new scientific discoveries. Swanson, a specialist in the relationship between natural and computer languages, thought electronic databases also held the key to medical knowledge. A trailblazing information scientist, Swanson died Nov.

Department of Homeland Security Announces 34 Contracts The Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA), based at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of Californ

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LiDAR-derived image of Meteor Crater, AZ. Color bands show range of elevations from 1541 meters at the bottom of the crater, to a maximum of 1835 meters on the crater rim.

NSF awards $2 million over four years to UC San Diego computer scientists and physicians Imagine a new type of healthcare app that does it all - it helps you understand your current health status, as

Verizon Foundation to provide grant, in-kind technology solutions to scale up novel approach to TB treatment As part of an innovative philanthropic health care program targeting reduction of health c

03 Dec 2012 Developed at The University of Manchester between 1956 and 1963, the Atlas computer was at the time the most powerful in the world.

Reconfigurable robot a step toward something that can become almost anything. The device doesn't look like much: a caterpillar-sized assembly of metal rings and strips resembling something you might find buried in a home-workshop drawer.

Groundbreaking work on speech recognition software by the University of Toronto's Department of Computer Science (DCS) is transforming Microsoft, Google and IBM.

With so much at stake, we need to do a better job of understanding the risks of potentially catastrophic technologies.

Computation is now an essential tool for researchers, as data analytics and complex simulations fuel ambitious new studies in the sciences and humanities. But the path from a spreadsheet on a laptop to using the world's most powerful supercomputers can be intimidating for researchers unfamiliar with computational methods.

Smartphones that talk. Self-driving cars. Robots that think. All fruits of artificial intelligence research that are here now or just around the corner.

Messages marking 90 years of BBC radio - to be broadcast this evening (5.33pm on Wednesday 14 November) in a worldwide transmission and curated by the musician Damon Albarn - will be preserved at the Mass Observation Archive at the University of Sussex.

A new approach to processing 'big data' creates succinct representations of huge data sets, so that existing algorithms can handle them efficiently. In computer science, the buzzword of the day is " big data." The proliferation of cheap, Internet-connected sensors - such as the GPS receivers, accelerometers and cameras in smartphones - has meant an explosion of information whose potential uses have barely begun to be explored.

The National Computational Infrastructure's new Fujitsu Primergy Supercomputer has debuted at number one in Australia, and number 24 in the world on the TOP500 list of best supercomputers, released overnight.

The Australian National University and Fujitsu Limited have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen their respective commitments to solving challenging problems of long-term value and global impact.

Maria Petrou, Professor of Signal Processing (Electrical and Electronic Engineering), died from cancer on 15 October at the age of 59.

A new way to make glass has been discovered by a collaboration of researchers at the Universities of Düsseldorf and Bristol using a method that controls how the atoms within a substance are arranged around each other. The research is published today in Physical Review Letters. When cooling a liquid below its melting temperature it either crystallizes or transforms into a glass.

Computer Science and Engineering graduate student Tarfah Alrashed (center) with CSE undergrads Matthew Davis (left) and Rodrigo Rollo designed the iPhone app in less than three months.

Ten members of the University’s robot football team visited Derriford Hospital, where they proved a big hit with the youngsters, their families and hospital staff.

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania are participating in a massive, interdisciplinary collaboration known as the TerraSwarm Research Center, which will study the potential applications - and risks - of "swarm-based" computing and robotics.

University of California, San Diego computer science and engineering Tajana Simunic Rosing is leading the university's participation in a nine-campus consortium to build a TerraSwarm Research Center.

Using cutting-edge virtual reality technology, researchers have 'beamed' a person into a rat facility allowing the rat and human to interact with each other on the same scale. Published today in PLOS ONE, the research enables the rat to interact with a rat-sized robot controlled by a human participant in a different location.

As the United States moves toward a switch from gas-powered to electric vehicles, one significant stumbling block remains: the massive batteries needed to run them.

A new algorithm predicts which Twitter topics will trend hours in advance and offers a new technique for analyzing data that fluctuate over time.

Cornell researchers have created an autonomous flying robot that is as smart as a bird when it comes to maneuvering around obstacles.

Improving ageing Victorian water systems so that they can meet the UK's growing needs will be the focus of a new £1.7 million partnership, announced today.

Sean Barrett, from the Department of Physics, was tragically killed in a car accident in Perth, Australia on Friday 19 October.

Teaching a robot a new trick is a challenge. You can't reward it with treats and it doesn't respond to approval or disappointment in your voice.

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In the future it will be possible to build conscious machines – machines that understand when their rights are abused and that in a philosophical sense can also feel pain.

New report details how 60 percent of world server workloads to take place on cloud computers by 2014 As the world prepares to convene for the World Conference on International Tele (WCIT 2012), the r

Kathleen McKeown Henry and Gertrude Rothschild Professor of Computer Science Q. Tell us about your project and how it relates to the election.

—Professor Jon Crowcroft Online services that store our personal information have proliferated, yet the technology to underpin how our privacy is safeguarded has lagged behind.

New report from MIT and Caltech notes gains in voting-machine technologies, but warns they could be cancelled out by errors introduced through mail and Internet voting.

Faced with a demand for research computing infrastructure that meets the growing needs of compute and data-intensive research, the University of Wisconsin-Madison is using a $500,000 Federal grant to

Vast amounts of mobile phone data have been used to build a picture of how the trips people make within Kenya might contribute to malaria transmission.

Vast amounts of mobile phone data have been used to build a picture of how the trips people make within Kenya might contribute to malaria transmission.

Cars that consciously interact with their environment and help to prevent accidents and traffic jams have been envisioned since a long time.

Researchers believe that information theory - the discipline that gave us digital communication - can explain differences between human languages. The majority of languages - roughly 85 percent of them - can be sorted into two categories: those, like English, in which the basic sentence form is subject-verb-object ("the girl kicks the ball"), and those, like Japanese, in which the basic sentence form is subject-object-verb ("the girl the ball kicks").

The Dark Energy Survey is one of the most ambitious astrophysics experiments ever launched.