Saturday, April 11, 2009

Banned CFC-driven Inhalers

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In August 2008, Scientific American did a story about a federal ban on ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) to conform with the Clean ...
Wednesday, February 04, 2009

Data Mining Finds Bad Drugs

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University of Minnesota Duluth professor Ted Pedersen and University Minnesota Twin Cities professor Serguei Pakhomov have been awarded a th...

An Algorithmic Game of Clue©

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Duke University researchers have developed an algorithm capable of determining the best strategy for winning a game of CLUE©, a mathematical...

Is Technology Producing a Decline in Critical Thinking and Analysis?

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University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) professor Patricia Greenfield says that critical thinking and analysis skills decline the more ...
Monday, February 02, 2009

Data Mining Promises to Dig Up New Drugs

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European researchers have developed a robot called Eve that uses artificial intelligence, data mining, and knowledge discovery technology to...
Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Report Calls for Boost in IT Research, Policies

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U.S. President Barack Obama's transition team has received a copy of a National Academy of Sciences report that recommends several strat...
Tuesday, January 27, 2009

HP Grants Aim to Redesign College Engineering & Computer Science

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Hewlett-Packard has made more than $2.4 million in cash and equipment available for its "HP Innovations in Education" effort, whic...
Sunday, January 25, 2009

Operation Comfort Warriors

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The American Legion accepts donations for Operation Comfort Warriors, which raises funds to Provide comfort items for wounded U.S. troops re...

What's a Serving?

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I've been trying to cut back on how much I eat. But in a day and age where it is more common to eat out, I'm not very good at judgin...
Saturday, January 24, 2009

Auto Gear-Change Bicycle: Computer Controlled Bicycle Gear Changes Optimize Power, Comfort

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Researchers in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at National Defense University in Tashi, Taiwan, are developing a computer system fo...