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How to Program a Quantum Computer
Quantum computing already exists, but on a truly miniscule scale. Click for details.

U.S. Must Develop Cyber Intelligence To Counter Computer Threats
A new study warns that the U.S. must develop cyber intelligence as a new and better coordinated government discipline that can predict computer-related threats and deter them. Click for details.

Humanoid Robot Workers
Meet FRIDA, Friendly Robot for Industrial Dual-Arm Assembly. Click for details.

CSIS Networking Academy
The networking program has just moved to three state-of-the-art networking labs in the Multidisciplinary Building. Check out our degree and certificate programs in A+, Microsoft, Open Source, and Cisco. Click here for details.

uBeam: Wireless Charging System
uBeam will let gadget owners power up their devices over the air, without ever plugging into an electric charger or any kind of docking station. Click for details. Here's another demo of wireless electricity. Click here.

Head Tracking for iPad: Glasses-Free 3D Display
French researchers posted a video showing off a method for using head tracking by a device's camera to simulate 3D scenes for the iPad. Click for details.

Beware Online Filter Bubbles
Web companies are striving to tailor their services to users' personal tastes. But Eli Pariser warns that this puts us at risk of being trapped in "filter bubbles" unexposed to information that could broaden our worldview. Click for details.

An X Prize for Mobile Diagnostics
A $10 million prize would go to the first device that can diagnose a range of diseases with the same accuracy as a team of doctors. Click for details.

Is Your iPhone Tracking You
Researchers have discovered that the iPhone is keeping track of where you go and storing that information in a file that is stored, unencrypted and unprotected, on your iPhone and on any machine with which you synchronize your iPhone. Click for details. Senator asking Apple about location-tracking issues. Click for open-source application that maps the information that your iPhone is recording about your movements. Update. Click for Apple's response.

Silicon Valley Experiencing New Hiring Boom
Click for details on the hottest Silicon Valley job market for software engineers since the dot.com crash a decade ago.

Google Summer of Code
Google is now accepting appications for its 2011 Summer of Code. University students receive a stipend to write code for open source projects, gaining experience in real-world software development and creating more source code which benefits everyone on the web. Click for details.

Podcasting
Podcasting delivers audio content to portable media players so that it can be listened to at the user's convenience. Check out these tech podcasts:

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Quantum Computers
Quantum computers harnesses the power of atoms and molecules to perform memory and processing tasks billions of times faster than any silicon-based computer. Click for short video.

Sometimes Somethings Just Rock
Check out Atomic Tom performing live on the subway in Brooklyn on iPhones. Click here for video.

IBM's Watson and the Jeopardy Challenge
Using advanced computing and emerging technology, IBM is building a natural language processing computer code-named Watson to compete in the game show Jeopardy. Click for video. To view a practice Jeopardy round click here.

Obama Visits Google
Presidential candidate Barak Obama gets asked a computer science question by Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Click for video.

The Machine is Us/ing Us
Web 2.0 in just under 5 minutes. Click for video.

iOS Application Programming
The iOS runtime environment was designed to support the needs of mobile users and mobile devices. Check out our ongoing iPhone/iPad programming classes.