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NEWS
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Space
tractor
More than a few Hollywood adventures have featured
asteroids smashing into the earth and wiping out cities
or generating monstrous tsunamis...
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Chemical
hubs
In recent years researchers have been teasing
out the properties of all manner of networks as wide-ranging
as the Web, social connections among people, and relationships
among chemicals in the biochemical processes that support
life...
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Time
simplifies quantum crypto
The field of quantum cryptography, which promises
potentially perfectly secure communications, has matured
rapidly. Current research is aimed at increasing data
rates and improving reliability...
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Spreadsheet
drives sensor net
Networks of tiny, inexpensive sensors scattered
throughout an environment could make it easier to monitor
environmental conditions, collect scientific data and
track people and vehicles for military and law enforcement
purposes. Managing these sensor networks and analyzing
the data they collect, however, promises to be challenging...
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Bits
and pieces
Sugar turns vegetable oil to diesel, nanotubes block electromagnetic
radiation, and a carbon nano vehicle. |
FEATURES
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View
from the High Ground:
GMU's Harry Wechsler
Pervasive computing, personalized medicine,
the game of Go, biometrics, 1984, machines making decisions
for us, the limits of a computer science education, and
the importance of not knowing ahead of time.
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How
It Works: Quantum cryptography
Perfectly secure communications comes down to using the
quirks of quantum physics to reliably detect eavesdroppers.
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