by Nick Chambers Scientific American Long a staple of science fiction, self-driving vehicles that act as robot chauffeurs have been a cultural dream for decades. For most of that time, however, the dream seemed a part of some unattainable future. But now, led in large part by Google’s sudden and unexpected charge, autonomous robot cars [...]
by Brandon Keim Wired Science Records of Google searches could be used to track the spread of drug-resistant staph infections, filling a gap in existing surveillance for the bugs. With near-real-time, city-by-city information about the spread of MRSA, or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, public health experts may be better able to fight it. “Potentially, we can [...]
by JOHN MARKOFF New York Times University of California, San Diego (UCSD) researchers recently completed a study aimed at finding a choke point that could reduce the flow of spam emails. The researchers tried to receive as much spam as possible for three months and then they bought items from the Web sites advertised in [...]
by Michael Feldman, HPC Wire The Enabling Climate Simulation (ECS) at Extreme Scale project was created to explore how to efficiently run climate models on future exascale systems and obtain suitable results. The project has a threefold concentration on completing models with correct results despite frequent system failures, leveraging hierarchical computers with hardware accelerators near [...]
by Mitch Joel, MontrealGazette.com It was another week of Twitter getting mainstream media accolades as news of bin Laden killed by Navy SEALs lit the social media channel afire with chatter. Twitter’s role in breaking the story amplified when it was revealed Abbottabad, Pakistan, resident and IT consultant Sohaib Athar (Twitter name: @ ReallyVirtual), unknowingly [...]
by Adam Shell, USA TODAY #Tweet this: To gain a trading edge, Wall Street traders are now using clever computer programs to monitor and decode the words, opinions, rants and even keyboard-generated smiley faces posted on social-media sites like Twitter.com. Human emotions, such as greed and fear, have always moved markets. Money can be made [...]