Science

ROI, Reconsidered

The purpose of any business investment is to deliver net economic value. Yet, research has shown that in more than 60 percent of IT implementations, the value expected or “promised” is not being received. So the critical question is, “How can CIOs...

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Cassini Celebrates 10 Years Since Jupiter Encounter

Cassini Jupiter Portrait
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This true color mosaic of Jupiter was constructed from images taken by the...

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Particle Pings: Sounds Of The Large Hadron Collider

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This is what researchers at the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider expect data from a Higgs...

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New UN-Korean partnership aims to boost transfer of ‘green’ technologies

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3 Reasons Clouds Prevent Cyber-Attacks

Recent cyber-attacks have shown that cloud computers are resilient to distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that overwhelm traditional Web servers. Here are three reasons why cloud computers are able to thwart cyber-attackers.

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Google Chrome OS Faces Serious Risk of Failure: 10 Reasons Why

Google’s Chrome OS platform could potentially be a major headline-stealer in 2011. Not only does it come from one of the most important (and prominent) tech companies in the industry, but it delivers a unique operating system experience that consumers...

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Female chimps treat sticks as dolls

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“We have seen juveniles occasionally carrying sticks for many years, and because they sometimes treated...

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Like computer science, only cooler

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David J. Malan (right), lecturer on computer science, speaks with students Max Sabor '13...

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