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Science Stuff
- The science candidates: Jess Phoenix says her defeat shows how much in politics needs to change June 15, 2018Volcanologist shares lessons learned—and future plans—after failed bid for California seat
- European Union, worried about rising tensions, plans to boost military research June 15, 2018Proposed European Defence Fund would spend €13 billion on R&D
- These frogs walk instead of hop, video reveals June 15, 2018Scientists tease out why four species have developed an unusual mode of locomotion
- NIH pulls the plug on controversial alcohol trial June 15, 2018Director Francis Collins acting on report, ends $100 million study of moderate drinking
- Americans have been lighting up for more than 3000 years, ancient pipe reveals June 15, 2018Nicotine-laced pipe is the earliest evidence for tobacco smoking in North America
- Top stories: Florida’s HIV problem, ancient skull surgery, and corrections to a flawed diet study June 15, 2018This week’s top Science news
- What turns bees into killer bees? June 15, 2018Study reveals the brain biochemistry behind aggressive honey bees
- Ending AIDS? These three places show the epidemic is far from over June 14, 2018Russia, Nigeria, and Florida stand out for their faltering responses to HIV
- The places where HIV shows no sign of ending, and the parts of the human brain that are bigger—in bigger brains June 14, 2018On this week’s show: Why do Nigeria, Russia, and Florida have growing HIV problems? And which parts of the brain are bigger in people who have bigger brains?
- The little piece of DNA that makes girls boys June 14, 2018Study pinpoints regulatory DNA that’s key to determining sex of a child
Data Management Trends
- Sonification of Surface Tapping Changes Behavior, Surface Perception, and Emotion May 13, 2015Interactive sonification techniques can be applied to the audio feedback from touching and interacting with both real and virtual surfaces, and the different audio feedback can affect a user's emotional, behavioral, and perceptual experience with the surface. More
- A Little Ingenuity Solves an Elephant-Sized Problem May 13, 2015A student team from North Carolina State has designed a collar to help control wild elephants that threaten human property and life in Africa and Asia. More
- Thinking Backward with Professor Zermelo May 13, 2015This column discusses extensive form games and shows how backward induction can be used to analyze such games. More
- Never Mind Pearl Harbor--What about a Cyber Love Canal? May 13, 2015Focusing on malicious attacks on the current infrastructure might be distracting us from another looming challenge: the risk to emerging infrastructure due to carelessness. More
- Accelerating Application Start-up with Nonvolatile Memory in Android Systems May 13, 2015In the critical race to minimize application launch time, this article looks at possible hardware solutions, especially the proven benefits of using nonvolatile memory. More
- Security and Privacy Implications of Pervasive Memory Augmentation May 13, 2015Pervasive technology can support human memory augmentation, but there are privacy and security implications that need to be addressed and understood moving forward. More
- Titan Takes on the Universe: Large-Scale Cosmology Simulation of Universe Mines for Halos Where Galaxies are Born May 13, 2015This article takes a closer look at a recent Titan run and the team that's currently pushing the state of the art in precision cosmology with the goal of better understanding cosmic acceleration. More
- Cloud Standards News and Updates May 13, 2015This column covers recent news on standards-related activities, including products of standards-developing organizations and other recent developments. More
- Big Data and IT-Enabled Services: Ecosystem and Coevolution May 13, 2015Take a look at Big Data's evolution and application as a service-oriented resource and the disruptive IT-enabled innovation it creates. More
- Visual Computing as a Key Enabling Technology for Industrie 4.0 and Industrial Internet May 13, 2015Visual computing plays an intrinsic role for Industrie 4.0 both at present and in various scenarios for future research. More
- Chinese Overview of A Deadline-Floor Inheritance Protocol for EDF Scheduled Embedded Real-Time Systems with Resource Sharing May 13, 2015Presented by Weiqiang Liu, an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Computers, this video provides a Chinese overview of the May 2015 Spotlight Article. The paper discusses Earliest Deadline First (EDF), the most widely studied optimal dynamic scheduling algorithm for uniprocessor real-time systems. More
- From the Internet of Things to the Internet of People May 13, 2015A reference architecture integrates people with the Internet of Things via smartphones to create scenarios that support the evolution of the Internet of People. More
- Augmentative, Alternative, and Assistive: Reimagining the History of Mobile Computing and Disability May 13, 2015Electronic communication support tools for nonspeaking people and mobile computing have always been closely connected, each providing requirements and inspiration to drive advancement. More
- Continuous Delivery: Huge Benefits, but Challenges Too May 13, 2015Paddy Power began implementing continuous delivery (CD) two years ago, reaping both huge benefits and challenges that can inform practitioners also considering CD. More
- Teaching Privacy: Multimedia Making a Difference April 9, 2015The Teaching Privacy project brings researchers and teachers together to develop learning tools to teach children about online privacy, especially in their interaction with multimedia technology. More
- Societal Discussion Required? Ubicomp Products beyond Weiser's Vision April 9, 2015As a community, we need to be more aware of the impact and inspiration our research creates. At the same time, these new computing technologies often require open discussions on what we can and should do. More
- Understanding Cybercrime from Its Stakeholders' Perspectives: Part 1--Attackers April 9, 2015Although cybercrime is rampant, there is no authoritative definition of the term and all that it implies. A comprehensive model and taxonomy of cybercrime, including all of its stakeholders, would contribute to better cybersecurity. Part one of this two-part series explores attackers and their motives in detail. More
- The Role of the CPU in Energy-Efficient Mobile Web Browsing April 9, 2015In an area that has primarily focused on performance, this article turns our attention to energy efficiency in mobile Web browsing, which requires a close look at how the network and CPU interact. More
- Securing Health Information April 9, 2015With such widespread adoption of the use of electronic health records, this article addresses the job of securing those records in a world where data access is increasingly mobile. More
- What Got Done in One Year at NSF's Stampede Supercomputer April 9, 2015Aaron Dubrow describes the National Science Foundation's Stampede supercomputer and how scientists are using it to tackle seven important research topics. More