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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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Role For Robots: Helping Elderly at Home
Three University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) engineers and a Rush University nursing specialist have been awarded a three-year, $989,000 National Science Foundation...
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Smart Sensors Power Interaction
More than 70 demonstrations of interactive technologies that use sensors for a wide range of applications were showcased at the Human Computer Interaction conference's...
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Nationwide Research Network Will Expand Supercomputer Capabilities
Indiana University (IU) researchers will lead a four-year, $15 million National Science Foundation project to develop software to connect future supercomputers...
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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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Nsf Awards a Petascale Computing Grant to Study Turbulent Clouds
University of Delaware National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) scientists have received a $1,064,500 grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct...
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Lobsters Teach Robots Magnetic Mapping Trick
Computer scientist Janne Haverinen reports that a small wheeled robot was able to use a magnetic map to determine where it was in a hospital and move along a corridor...
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New Microprocessor Runs on Thin Air
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor researchers Minsoung Rhee and Mark Burns have developed a series of channels and valves that process binary signals by sucking...
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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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Bio-Computing Day Planned For Sc09
Biologist Leroy Hood will be the plenary speaker for the 22nd annual SCO9 conference, which takes place Nov. 14-20, in Portland, Ore. Hood, president and co-founder...
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Electrical Circuit Runs Entirely Off Power in Trees
You've heard about flower power. What about tree power? It turns out that it's there, in small but measurable quantities. There's enough power in trees for University...
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Iit Kharagpur Receives Charles Babbage Grant
Synopsys Inc. announced Wednesday (Sept. 9) that the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur is the first institution of higher education in India to receive the...
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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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How Belief Makes European E-Infrastructure Real
Europe has turned its early belief and investment in the potential of e-Infrastructures and virtual research into a position of strength, especially in e-Science...
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Bio-Nano Device Could Lead to Better Electronics
If manmade devices could be combined with biological machines, laptops and other electronic devices could get a boost in operating efficiency. Lawrence Livermore...
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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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Quantum Computer Slips Onto Chips
A silicon chip about the size of a penny that uses photons to run Shor's algorithm has been developed by a team of researchers at the University of Bristol in the...
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Still Trying to Crack Nazi Enigma Messages
Enigma@home is attempting to break one of three original messages generated by the Enigma machine, which was intercepted by the Allies in 1942. The Enigma M4 machine...
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