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R&d Partnership to sher in Era of Petascale Computing in Singapore
Fujistu and the Institute of High Performance Computing at Singapore's Agency for Science Technology and Research have announced a joint research and development...
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Watching Crystals Grow May Lead to Faster Electronic Devices
The quest for faster electronic devices recently got something more than a little bump up in technological knowhow. Scientists at Cornell University (Ithaca, NY)...
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The Greening of It
A seminar hosted by Science|Business focused on what needs to be done to make information technology (IT) more environmentally friendly. The cross-pollination...
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Nanostructures Hold Promise as Fast Switches for Resistive RAM
Building microscopic materials known as superlattices on the surface of gold may lead to a treasure for researchers interested in faster, smaller, and more energy...
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Tech Recession 'Is Unofficially Over'
After an extended slump, technology spending will rev back to life in 2010, according to analyst firm Forrester. "The technology downturn of 2008 and 2009 is unofficially...
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World Champion in Automatic Image and Video Search
A search system developed by researchers at the University of Amsterdam has the potential to make it easier to find an image or video on the Internet or in large...
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Racing, Shooting, and Zapping Your Way to Better Visual Cognition Skills
Regular video gamers are fast and accurate information processors, not only during game play, but in real-life situations as well, according to a new study in Current...
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Advancing STEM Education
Seven institutions received funding in fiscal year 2009 through Innovation through Institutional Integration, or I3 — an effort intended to link institutions' existing...
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Learning Computer Science From Scratch
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researcher Mitchel Resnick and colleagues at the MIT Media Lab have enjoyed great success with Scratch, a computer programming...
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A Week to Focus on Computer Science Education
The U.S. House of Representatives has designated Dec. 6-12 Computer Science Education Week to help raise awareness of the dearth of computer science in grades K...
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Computer Science, Engineering Job Ads Increase in November
The number of online job ads increased by 35,400 for computer scientists and mathematicians in November, according to the Conference Board, and online postings...
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Pneumatic Ball-Levitating Robot Wins at Beer Pong
A pair of grad students at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign are using a computer-controled gimbaled air-jet system with two degrees of motion to not...
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Conquering the Digital Data Overload
University of Utah computer scientist Juliana Freire is working to find data that could be missed in the quagmire of technology available, and to manage and integrate...
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Invisibility Visualized: New Software For Rendering Cloaked Objects
Researchers at Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have developed a new visualization tool that will enable users to see what a cloaked object looks like...
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Minority Students Earned Greater Number of Degrees in Fiscal 2006
Students in underserved populations earned a greater number of academic diplomas in almost all categories in fiscal year 2006 compared to fiscal year 2004, according...
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Announced Initiatives to Bolster .s. Science and Technology Collaboration With Muslim Communities
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton recently announced new initiatives aimed at promoting science and technology collaboration with Muslim communities...
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Algorithm Predicts Fate of Emergency Medical Service Callers
A computer algorithm that can predict the risk of dying for individuals who place calls for emergency medical service has been developed by researchers in Japan...
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Quantum Computers Could Tackle Enormous Linear Equations
Aram Harrow of the University of Bristol in England along with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Avinatan Hassidim and Seth Lloyd believe that encoding...
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Handheld Camera Brings 'invisible' Into View
A group of researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology has developed a handheld camera that uses microwave signals to non-destructively peek inside...
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