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African Researchers Rank Asus Eee Over Olpc's Xo
Though the XO laptop from the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project is aimed directly at children in developing nations, research by African universities and Computer...
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Computing Revolution Creating Desktop Supercomputers
University of Western Australia (UWA) Ph.D. candidate Chris Harris is investigating the use of graphics processing units (GPUs) in radio astronomy data processing...
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Reconfigurable Hardware Delivers Design Flexibility
Technology is struggling to meet demands for high-performance, specialised computing systems. A European consortium is responding with a new kind of reconfigurable...
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'instant On' Computing
Researchers supported by the National Science Foundation have achieved a breakthrough in adding ferroelectric materials to silicon, without intervening reaction...
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Researchers Working on Memory to Replace Dram, Nand
Researchers at Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) believe that resistive-random access memory (RRAM) could replace dynamic random access memory...
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Microsoft Executive Sees Rise of Tablets, 'Room Computer'
Technology that changes how people give commands to computers could make touch-based PCs more popular and transform the traditional desktop into a "room computer"...
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25 Microchips That Shook the World
In microchip design, as in life, small things sometimes add up to big things. Dream up a clever microcircuit, get it sculpted in a sliver of silicon, and your little...
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Intel Preps Tool For Many-Core Processors
Later this year Intel will release a research project code-named Ct, short for C for Throughput, that will automatically make standard C and C++ compilers work...
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Method For Verifying Safety Of Computer-Controlled Devices Developed
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science have developed a new method for systematically identifying bugs in aircraft collision avoidance...
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Robots Are Narrowing the Gap With Humans
Robots are gaining on us humans. Guided by increased computing power, robots can now perform such tasks as picking up and peeling bananas, landing jumbo jets, steering...
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Funding Supports Diamond-Based Quantum Information Processing and Communication
University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) scientists say that diamonds could revolutionize quantum mechanics in computing by enabling ultra-secure communications...
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Netbook Chips Create a Low-Power Cloud
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have successfully used a cluster of the same low-power processors that are used in netbooks and mobile devices to create...
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Caltech Electrical Engineer Awarded $6 Million to Develop Self-Healing Circuits
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded California Institute of Technology professor Ali Hajimiri a four-year, $6 million grant to develop self...
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Biological Sensors Are the Future of Personalized Medicine
Madrid recently hosted the International Symposium on Research in Grid/Nano/Bio/Medical Informatics (Bioinforsalud 2009). Organized by ACTION-Grid, Bioinforsalud...
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Squeezed Ferroelectric Material Could Lead to 'instant On' Memory Devices
Low-power, high-efficiency electronic memory could be the long-term result of collaborative research led by Cornell University scientist Darrell Schlom (pictured)...
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Tech Mainstays Promote Machines That Fix Themselves
Technology companies are embracing self-healing technology, a computing strategy that could have a major impact on the data center and the desktop. IBM uses self...
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Robotic Gardeners: MIT Droids Tend Plants
A class of undergraduates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has created a set of robots that can water, harvest and pollinate cherry tomato plants. The...
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Robot Suit Will Turn You Into Ironman
A cybernetic bodysuit developed by Cyberdyne Corp. and Daiwa House of Japan augments body movement and increases user strength by up to tenfold. The HAL (Hybrid...
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Keep On Spinning
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Materials Science Division researchers have made a major advancement in spintronics by controlling the spin states of highly...
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