Tweet Posted by Rob Knies Efficiency is one of the hallmarks of successful science, and for proof, you need look no further than the Sept. 5 issue of the journal Science, which features a study by a team of scientists…
Although computer science is poised for exponential job growth over the next several years, there’s a glaring lack of women entering the field. Since 1984, the number of computer science degrees awarded to women has steadily declined, to the point…
I recently sponsored an event in Manizales, Colombia, training biologists on .NET Bio and BioHPC, two projects that make computational research easier in the life sciences. As part of the training, Jarek Pillardy—the head of the Cornell Bioinformatics Facility (CBSU)…
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Computer scientists have uncovered architectural weaknesses in both the iOS and Android mobile operating systems that make it possible for hackers to steal sensitive user data and login credentials for popular e-mail and storage services.
Tweet Posted by Rob Knies Location, location, location. Yu Zheng, lead researcher at Microsoft Research Asia, is all about location-based services. Now, his research into urban computing has led him into a pretty exclusive neighborhood.On Aug. 21, Zheng was named…
Tweet Posted by Rob Knies More than a century ago, 641 Sixth Ave., a Beaux-Arts high-rise in Manhattan’s Flatiron District, housed Simpson, Crawford & Simpson, known for a while as the most elegant department store in New York City.On Aug.…
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Researchers at Microsoft Research India have proposed a new form of near-field communication (NFC) for mobile phones, one that even works on devices that lack any kind of specialized NFC hardware.
These are exciting times for networking researchers. New developments in data-center networking—and the new efficiencies those advances offer—are making this one of the hottest fields in computing. Major figures in networking and communications research gather in Hong Kong from August…
Tweet Posted by Rob Knies So, if you’re writing a book called On the Efficient Determination of Most Near Neighbors: Horseshoes, Hand Grenades, Web Search and Other Situations When Close is Close Enough, how exactly do you start?You could…