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Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 14:08:54 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: NSF Hosts the Second U.S.-China Computer Science Leadership Summit
NSF Hosts the Second U.S.-China Computer Science Leadership Summit
Approximately 15 professors, deans and other professionals in the computing sciences from the People's Republic of China came to Arlington, Va. last month for a summit with their U.S. counterparts. The one-day meeting gave participants the chance to discuss challenges and opportunities facing computing scholars from both sides of the Pacific, and it reflected the growing level of cooperation between the academic research communities in both countries.
The event was organized by the ...
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Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 17:22:16 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Universally Speaking, Earthlings Share a Nice Neighborhood
Universally Speaking, Earthlings Share a Nice Neighborhood
We don't have spacecraft to take us outside our solar system--not yet, at least. Still, astronomers thought they had a pretty good understanding of how our solar system formed and in turn, how others formed. In the last dozen years, nearly 300 exoplanets have been discovered. Are the solar systems in which they reside indeed like our own? Without knowledge or observations to the contrary, conventional knowledge said yes. Three Northwestern University researchers questioned that assumption ...
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