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New Programs Aim to Lure Young Into Digital Jobs

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Growing up in the ’70s, John Halamka was a bookish child with a penchant for science and electronics. He wore black horn-rimmed glasses and buttoned his shirts up to the collar.
“I was constantly being called a geek or a nerd,” he recalled, chuckling.
Dr. Halamka grew up to be something of a cool nerd, [...]

Using aerospace principles to ride a wave of limitless energy

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The ocean is a potentially vast source of electric power, yet wave-energy systems are rare as they generally offer limited efficiency, must withstand battering storms, and need to be tethered to the sea floor. But by applying the principles that keep airplanes aloft, a team of aerospace engineers is creating a new wave [...]

It’s All Semantics: Searching for an Intuitive Internet That Knows What Is Said–And Meant

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The National Science Foundation delivers $1.1 million to Rensselaer Polytech researchers to stimulate the Semantic Web

The Internet grew out of an idea to connect various and disparate sources of data, delivering to researchers around the globe unprecedented access to information via their computer screens. As e-Science evolves alongside Web 2.0, however, some are [...]

This Article Will Self-destruct: Tool To Make Online Personal Data Vanish

“The reality is that many Web services archive data indefinitely, well after you’ve pressed delete,”.

Computer Idle? Now You Can Donate Its Time To Find A Cure For Major Diseases

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Not using your computer at the moment? You can now donate your computer’s idle time to cutting-edge biomedical research aimed at finding a cure for HIV, Parkinson’s, arthritis, and breast cancer.
Through the University of Delaware’s “Docking@Home” project, led by Michela Taufer, assistant professor of computer and information sciences, and supported by the National [...]