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Delaying Data could cut Net's Carbon Footprint -- Mason Inman  -- New Scientist  -- May 05, 2008

US academics and researchers have worked out how to make energy savings of around 50%, by delaying data flowing into a network by just a few milliseconds.

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Laptops as Earthquake Sensors -- Anna Davison  -- Technology Review  -- April 22, 2008

Earthquake researchers in California hope to take advantage of the motion sensors in laptops to create an earthquake-sensing network. By putting computers in homes and businesses to work as seismic monitors, the researchers hope to pull together a wealth of information on major quakes, and perhaps even offer early warnings, giving a few seconds' notice of a potentially devastating quake.

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'Dark Web' Project Takes On Cyber-Terrorism -- Steven Kotler  -- Fox News  -- October 12, 2007

Dark Web, a giant, searchable database at the University of Arizona's Artificial Intelligence Lab, is an attempt to uncover, cross-reference, catalogue and analyze all online terrorist-generated content on the at least 7000 to 8000 terrorist sites.

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Scientists Use the "Dark Web" to Snag Extremists and Terrorists Online -- Staff  -- National Science Foundation  -- September 10, 2007

A team of computational scientists have created a new technology they are calling the "Dark Web" which aims to systematically collect and analyze all terrorist-generated content on the Web.

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Analysts: 1 Billion PCs in use by end of 2008 -- Erica Ogg  -- Crave  -- June 10, 2007

It's taken 27 years to reach 1 billion PCs in use, and market researchers say it will take only five to reach the next billion.


Artificial Intelligence, With Help From the Humans -- Jason Pontin  -- New York Times  -- March 25, 2007

Researchers are developing systems to augment artificial intelligence by using humans for recognizing patterns or meanings in images, language or concepts.

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Pentagon Preps Mind Fields -- Noah Shachtman  -- Wired News  -- March 21, 2007

The U.S. military is working on computers than can scan your mind and adapt to what you're thinking.

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Start-Up Aims for Database to Automate Web Searching -- John Markoff  -- New York Times  -- March 09, 2007

A new company founded by a longtime technologist is setting out to create a vast public database intended to be read by computers rather than people, paving the way for a more automated Internet in which machines will routinely share information.

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Silicon Valley’s High-Tech Hunt for Colleague -- Katie Hafner  -- New York Times  -- February 03, 2007

The disappearance of renowned computer scientist Jim Gray has launched a high-tech search over the web using massive satellite imagery databases and distributed task processing by volunteers who are searching through these images to find his boat.

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Putting the Brakes on Light Speed -- Rick Weiss  -- Washington Post  -- January 19, 2007

Scientists said yesterday that they had achieved a long-sought goal of slowing waves of light to a relatively leisurely pace and using those harnessed pulses to store an image. Physicists said the new approach to taming light could hasten the arrival of a futuristic era in which computers and other devices will process information on optical beams instead of with electricity, which for all its spark is still cumbersome compared with light.

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