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Piles
of PDA files
Despite the small screens of handheld devices
we continue to try to do more and more with the likes
of cellphones and PDAs, from watching television shows
to running desktop applications. Researchers have been
trying to overcome the small screen limitation...
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Motion
models how we meet
What does math have to do with friendship and
sex? Quite a bit, these days. Mathematical models are
emerging as a useful tool for studying and monitoring
social networks...
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Fingers
do the browsing
Commands
hover, data touches
Cropping
by eye
Electric
field refrigeration |
FEATURES
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View
from the High Ground: Cornell's Jon Kleinberg
Six degrees of separation, buying gasoline
by the molecule, the science of popularity, all just getting
along online, intellectual prosthetics, Big Science, making
up questions, and telling stories.
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How
It Works: Quantum computing: qubits
Photons, electrons and atoms, oh my! These particles are
the raw materials for qubits, the basic building blocks
of quantum computers. |
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of a small number of people -- or even a single
person -- working at their own pace on their own
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