'Smart' shock absorbers for quake-prone structures

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Rice University structural engineering researchers are leading a new $1.6 million research program funded by the National Science Foundation to help design a new generation of adaptive, "smart" shock absorbers for buildings and bridges in earthquake-prone areas.

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A first in online gaming: Humans team up with AI software

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Hey, online gamers, artificial intelligence researchers need your help! As part of an international team of researchers, Northwestern University has officially released the first online game in which human players partner ...

Web 2.0 gives new tools to hate groups: experts

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Social networks MySpace and Facebook and video-sharing site YouTube are being used as powerful new tools by extremist groups to spread a message of hate, participants in a conference on Internet hate speech ...

Yahoo's fate riding on Yang's successor as CEO

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(AP) -- With Jerry Yang quitting as Yahoo Inc.'s chief executive, the Internet company's board will confront pivotal questions as it looks for a new leader.

Online Money: Save with online book rentals

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(AP) -- If you aren't sure which books to give that avid reader on your gift list this holiday season, how about considering every title she could name?

Mathematica Users Get 100x Performance Boost From NVIDIA CUDA

Nov 18, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet

At SC08, Wolfram Research will demonstrate a new version of Mathematica, the world’s most powerful general computational software, that integrates CUDA, NVIDIA’s parallel GPU computing architecture. This new version is expected ...

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