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Novel Way to Cool Data Centers Passes First Test
A new system that could make the cooling of data centers vastly more efficient has been tested by a team of engineers led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory...
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SC09 Draws Many New Faces to World's Premier Supercomputing Event
Approximately 11,000 researchers, scientists, engineers, and computing experts from around the world are expected to attend SCO9 high-performance computing (HPC)...
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On the Road to Secure Car-to-Car Communications
A European research project works out how to keep car-to-car data transmissions private and secure from malicious hackers.
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Can Video Game Testing Spark Interest in Computing Among Black Youth?
Betsy DiSalvo with Georgia Tech's College of Computing is betting that young African American males' interest in video games can be tapped to generate a greater...
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Research Project Limits Computer Power Consumption
A new scheduling algorithm developed by researchers at the University of Sydney promises to cut the energy consumption of processors in data centers by more than...
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Stimulus Funds to Further Cyber Security Research
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 will fund a project designed to protect the privacy and security of business information systems and data centers...
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Purdue Receives $105 Million to Lead National Earthquake Engineering Network
The U.S. National Science Foundation awarded $105 million to a Purdue-led team to spearhead a center that will serve as headquarters for the operations of the George...
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How Do You Say Grid Computing in Spanish?
Encouraged by the success of grid computing in Europe, scientists there set out to help their Latin American colleagues develop grid capability. The result today...
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Arkansas Receives $3.3 Million Grant From National Science Foundation
The University of Arkansas has received a $3.3 million National Science Foundation grant to build and support a cyberinfrastructure and to train students and workers...
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Powerful Supercomputers Boost .s. Weather Forecasts
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has completed implementation of the final phase of a nine year, $180 million contract by installing the...
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IBM Japan Giving niversities Taste of Cloud Computing
IBM Japan Ltd. is accelerating the proliferation of cloud computing at universities as part of a global strategy by parent company IBM Corp. aimed at attracting...
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Career Advice: High-Tech, Healthcare Best Choices For College Students
College students seeking careers in computer science and engineering have the best chance of being hired in the wake of the recession, according to a Challenger...
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Paris Event to Showcase Informatics Advances, Honor European Pioneers
The fifth edition of the European Computer Science Summit (ECSS) will take place in Paris on October 8-9, 2009, with a special workshop for new (and not so new)...
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Budget, Personnel Cutbacks Could Be a Cause of It Outages
When eBay Inc.'s PayPal unit suffered a worldwide outage early last month, Sailrite Enterprises Inc., a sailing supply company based in Churubusco, Ind., lost its...
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Trying to Woo Partners, Cloud Computing Vendors Show Them the Money
One of the early promises of software-as-a-service and cloud computing was that it would allow start-ups to directly market their Web services while skipping the...
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Rfid Significantly Improves Item-Level Inventory Accuracy
A new study on the use of radio-frequency identification tags on individual retail items shows that inventory accuracy decreases or diminishes over time with conventional...
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Computer Scientists at Yale Develop New Hybrid Database System
Yale computer scientists recently demonstrated HadoopDB, their new open source system for managing huge amounts of data, at the VLDB conference in Lyon, France....
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Moral Machines
Scientists at the Universidade Nova De Lisboa, in Portugal, and the Universitas Indonesia, in Indonesia, are researching artificial intelligence and the application...
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Nsf Funds CM Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Privacy and Security
Carnegie Mellon University has received a five-year, $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation to launch a Ph.D. program in usable privacy and security...
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