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Memristors: Pass or Fail?
The device may revolutionize data storage, replacing flash memory and perhaps even disks. Whether they can be reliably and cheaply manufactured, though, is an open...
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Evaluating Government Funding
A presidential report asserts the value of U.S. government investments in the cross-agency Networking and Information Technology Research...
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Grid Computing's Future
Outreach programs and usability improvements are drawing many researchers to grid computing from disciplines that have not traditionally used such resources.
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Heading Into the Bonus Round
A bonus round is something one usually associates with the likes of a TV game show, not a pioneering deep space mission. "We are definitely in the bonus round...
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Cloud Computing at Nist: Two New Draft Documents and a Wiki
NIST has issued two new draft documents on cloud computing for public comment and set up a new NIST Cloud Computing Collaboration site to enable two-way communication...
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'radical Redesign' rged For Future Computers
University of Maryland professor Uzi Vishkin believes that computer architecture needs to be redesigned in order to effectively use multicore processors.
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Stanford and Intel Test the Boundaries of Visual Computing
Researchers from Intel and Stanford University are collaborating on a five-year, $10 million project to advance the field of visual computing. Intel is funding...
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Maurice Wilkes: The Last Pioneer
Computer science has lost not only a great scientist, but an important link to the electronic computing revolution that took place in the 1940s.
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Information Theory After Shannon
Purdue University's Science of Information Center seeks new principles to answer the question 'What is information?'
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Chipping Away at Greenhouse Gases
Power-saving processor algorithms have the potential to create significant energy and cost savings.
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Grin Plasmonics: A Practical Path to Superfast Computing
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and UC Berkeley researchers have completed the first experimental demonstration of gradient index (GRIN) plasmonics, a technology...
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The Fantastical Promise of Reversible Computing
University of South Florida researchers are studying computation that takes place in steps that are time reversible, known as reversible computing, as a way to...
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Supercomputers Increase Research Competitiveness
Consistent investment in high-performance computing leads to greater research competitiveness for U.S. academic institutions, according to a new study on the impact...
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Nist Advances Single Photon Management For Quantum Computers
The quantum computers of tomorrow might use photons to move around the data they need to make calculations, but photons are tricky to work with. Two new papers...
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In Pursuit of Qubits, Uniting Subatomic Particles By the Billions
In a step toward a generation of ultrafast computers, physicists have used bursts of radio waves to briefly create 10 billion quantum-entangled pairs of subatomic...
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Driving Blood-Flow Research at the Petascale
Brown University researchers are using Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Cray XT5 Kraken supercomputer to develop three-dimensional models of the human arterial tree...
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First Silicon Entanglement Will Aid Quantum Computing
The state of entanglement has been created in silicon for the first time. The feat could lead to quantum computers made like ordinary computer chips.
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Euclid Brings New Computing Capabilities to UW-Madison Researchers
With a peak performance of about 19 teraflops, the University of Wisconsin-Madison's new computing resource, the Euclid cluster, can run large-scale computing projects...
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Solid-State Memories Pave the Way to Practical Quantum Communication
Two groups of physicists have managed to shift the quantum entanglement between two photons onto an entangled state between one photon and a quantum memor.
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