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A Conversation With Ed Catmull
Pixar Animation Studios president Ed Catmull says he once used realistic computer-generated animation as a goal because "doing it is so hard that it would help...
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A Minority Report Interface For the Rest of S
Two programmers have developed Toscanini, a free gestural computer interface that provides a connection between a user's movements and digital instruments such...
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Rensselaer Team Shows How To Analyze Raw Government Data
The Rensselaer Tetherless World Research Constellation has created a how-to primer on "mashing-up" the treasure trove of government Web data.
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niversity Analysis Suggests Limiting Exposure to Carbon Nanotubes
UC Berkeley researcher Mark Philbrick says that carbon nanotubes pose potential adverse health effects to humans and should be treated as if they are hazardous....
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Openstudy Aims to Create Worldwide Study Group
OpenStudy is a social media site that hooks up students from all across the globe, making the entire world a study group.
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Israeli High Tech Adjusts to Asian Challenge
The emergence of India and China is casting a shadow on the developed economies of Europe and North America, and is also posing a challenge to Israel. Key players...
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Illinois Students Build 33-Teraflop Cluster From Gpus
Students at the University of Illinois have built a supercomputer out of GPUs as part of a hands-on class. They expect the cluster to be ranked on the Green500...
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Uic Researchers Paint on 20-Foot Electronic Canvas
The University of Illinois at Chicago's Electronic Visualization Laboratory maintains a video display wall with a resolution of 8,160 by 2,304 pixels. Recently...
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Ice and a Slice Makes Transistors More Precise
Transistors can be built more precisely by using ice as a mask, according to researchers at Harvard University. The ice lithography process resembles how computer...
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New Standard Proposed For Supercomputing
A new supercomputer rating system, Graph500, tests a supercomputer's ability to analyze large, graph-based structures that link the huge number of data points present...
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All Optical Transistor
Researchers at EPFL have built a device that acts like an optical transistor. The device uses an optical microresonator to trap light in a tiny glass structure...
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It Is Finally Proven: Apple Users Are More Intelligent Than Pc Users
More than 2 millions PC users and Apple users took an Intelligence Test on the Intelligent Elite website. The results were quiet astonishing: Test takers using...
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New Research Provides Effective Battle Planning For Supercomputer War
Researchers have been studying and comparing the supercomputing systems in China and the United States to provide an analysis that will benefit the battle plans...
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.s. Building Next Wave of Supercomputers
Both Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are building 20-petaflop supercomputer systems that are expected to ready in 2012....
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Chinese Supercomputer Overtakes Jaguar
China's National University of Defense Technology's Tianhe-1A supercomputer has taken the top ranking from Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Jaguar supercomputer...
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Reaching for Sky Computing
Researchers are developing tools to combine independent cloud computing environments to form an architectural concept dubbed sky computing by researchers at the...
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Army Avatars Join the Battle For Hearts and Minds
Researchers at the University of Southern California are developing realistic, immersive virtual-reality programs for the U.S. military in which the soldiers are...
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Supercomputers 'will Fit in a Sugar Cube,' Ibm Says
IBM researchers led by Bruno Michel have developed a water-cooling method for creating supercomputer processors that could shrink them to the size of a sugar cube...
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Cerf Warns Over Address Space Squeeze
Google chief Internet evangelist Vint Cerf is raising the alarm about the effect the impending depletion of IPv4 addresses will have on the Internet. Once IPv4...
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