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Learn a Language While You Text
An MIT graduate student's "WaitChatter" app teaches vocabulary during moments in between text and instant-message replies.
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Researchers Make Magnetic Graphene
A team at the University of California, Riverside has found a way to induce magnetism in graphene while also preserving graphene's electronic properties, a development...
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UC Santa Cruz Creates New Department of Computational Media
The University of California, Santa Cruz has created a Department of Computational Media, an academic home for a new interdisciplinary field that is concerned...
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Keeping Track of Time in Cyber-Physical Systems
The U.S. National Science Foundation has announced a five-year, $4 million award to tackle the challenge of time in cyber-physical system.
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Nanoengineers Develop Basis for Electronics That Stretch at the Molecular Level
Nanoengineers at the University of California, San Diego are asking what might be possible if semiconductor materials were flexible and stretchable without sacrificing...
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Calling All Girls: Coding Is Cool!
A partnership of universities and industry support groups this month is launching GirlTECH San Diego, a non-profit collaborative community program aimed at encouraging...
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SDSC Uses Raspberry Pi Cluster to Teach Parallel Computing
Researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego, have built a Linux cluster using 16 Raspberry Pi computers as part...
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Computer Model Anticipates Crime Hot Spots
A unique collaboration between a University of California, Riverside sociologist and the Indio Police Department has produced a computer model that predicts where...
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Science Gateway Platform Will Improve Researchers' Access to Cloud Services
The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded a $5 million grant for a collaborative five-year project under which researchers will help develop and build a...
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100-Gbit Connection to Accelerate Data-Driven Science
The San Diego Supercomputer Center and the University of California, San Diego's ACT organization have been awarded an NSF grant to connect the campus to high-bandwidth...
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NSF Awards $12 Million to SDSC to Deploy 'Comet' Supercomputer
The San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego, has been awarded a $12-million grant from the National Science Foundation to deploy...
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Computer Scientists Develop New Approach to Sort Cells Up to 38 Times Faster
A team of engineers and computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego, has developed a new approach that marries computer vision and hardware optimization...
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MOOC or MOOR: Is Research the Next Frontier for Online Education?
A team from UC San Diego is launching a new course on the Coursera online learning network that breaks ground by adding a substantial research component.
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CrowdGrader Brings Crowdsourcing to the Task of Grading Homework
CrowdGrader, a new crowdsourcing tool developed by UC Santa Cruz computer scientists, allows students to submit their homework online and then distributes it anonymously...
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Touch Goes Digital
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego report a breakthrough in touch technology that could pave the way for digital systems to record, store,...
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SDSC Launches 'Sherlock' To Solve Complex National Challenges
The San Diego Supercomputer Center and its partners have brought together an extensive portfolio of IT services for healthcare and government under the 'Sherlock'...
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New Electron Beam Writer Enables Next-Gen Information Technologies
The new electron beam writer housed in the Nano3 cleanroom facility at the University of California, San Diego's Qualcomm Institute is important for two major areas...
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Are You Hiring the Wrong Person?
A new study finds that hiring managers often make poor choices because they systematically rely strictly on generic performance measures rather than consider...
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NIST Seeks Private-Sector Input at Cybersecurity Framework Workshop
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has opened registration for its 3rd Cybersecurity Framework Workshop, to be held July 10-12, 2013, in San Diego...
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UC San Diego Launches New Research Computing Program
The University of California, San Diego has deployed a new high-performance research computing system called the Triton Shared Computing Cluster, serving researchers...
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Facial-Recognition Software Shows Promise Identifying Subjects of Portrait Art
The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a $60,000 grant to researchers at the University of California, Riverside to continue their development...123