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One Group's Answer to Transistors Behaving Badly
Researchers are developing error-prone stochastic processors in the hope that their looser architecture will make their mass production much less expensive and...
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Lining Up 'nanodot' Memory
North Carolina State University researchers have developed a method for growing magnetic nanoparticles that could lead to much more dense computer memory devices...
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Hot New Material Can Keep Electronics Cool
University of California, Riverside researchers led by professor Alexander Balandin have developed technology that could keep laptops and other electronics from...
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Sandia Workshop Aids Photovoltaic Systems Integrators
Sandia National Laboratories researchers and the U.S. Department of Energy recently hosted a workshop for photovoltaic systems integrators to identify and address...
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Quantum Move Toward Next Generation Computing
Physicists at McGill University have developed a system for measuring the energy involved in adding electrons to semiconductor nanocrystals, also known as quantum...
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Is Water the Key to Cheaper Nanoelectronics?
Researchers have developed a way to use water to transfer layers from one surface to another by exploiting the fact that different materials have different hydrophilicity...
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Stimulus Funds Bring Supercomputer to Pittsburgh Area
D.E. Shaw Research will house Anton, its new 512-node supercomputer, at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center beginning next fall.
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Microsoft Researches Low Latency Operating System For Multicores
The Microsoft Research Lab in Cambridge, England, has developed BarrelFish, an operating system designed to overcome the latency problem in multi-core computers...
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What Would It Take to Put a Walking Robot on the Moon?
Astro-Technology SOHLA, a small cooperative of companies in Osaka, Japan, wants to put an autonomous humanoid robot on the moon.
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The Brain: Probing Its Deep Mystery
We know more about the cosmos than we do about the human brain, but work by European researchers is allowing scientists to probe further into the mysteries of...
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Nasa Official Outlines Plan For Next-Generation Space Robots
NASA engineers are developing a team of robotic rovers that might eventually work alongside astronauts on Mars.
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An Optical Traffic Cop For Rapid Communication
Tel Aviv University's Koby Scheuer has developed a nano-based filtering device using silicon rubber that is designed to enable faster communications over optical...
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Intel Launches Chip For Smartphones, Tablets
Intel on Tuesday announced its long-awaited Atom chip for smartphones and tablets, a crowded market populated by a host of formidable rivals--unlike the PC market...
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Redesigning the Web For Touch Screens
Last week, in an essay criticizing Adobe's Flash platform, Apple CEO Steve Jobs drew attention to, among other things, its lack of support for touch--something...
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Intel Labs Finds a Way to Create Routers sing Clustered Servers
Intel Labs says it can reuse or reconfigure commodity type servers and convert them into data center routers. The reused servers are programmable and scalable. ...
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'smart Dust' Aims to Monitor Everything
In the 1990s, a researcher named Kris Pister dreamed up a wild future in which people would sprinkle the Earth with countless tiny sensors, no larger than grains...
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Teams Gear p For Two Robotic Competitions
NIST has announced that 11 university teams will square off next week in two contests designed to prove the viability of advanced technologies for robotic manufacturing...
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Nist 'dimmer Switch' Set For Superconducting Quantum Computing
NIST has developed the first "dimmer switch" for a superconducting circuit linking a quantum bit and a quantum bus. The switch could speed up development of a practical...
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Mastering Multicore
MIT researchers have developed software that makes computer simulations of physical systems run more efficiently on multicore chips.
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