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IBM Chip Breakthrough May Lead to Exascale Supercomputers
IBM's new CMOS Integrated Silicon Nanophotonics technology boosts the data transfer rate between computer chips using pulses of light, and could boost supercomputing...
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Faculty Innovators Explore Ipad se
A nine-year-old Faculty Innovators program at Western Illinois University strives to mentor faculty on integrating technology and teaching. This year, participating...
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Parc Readies Printed Electronics For Market
Early 2011 will see printed memory devices in toys and printed sensors in packages used to ship drugs.
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Microsoft Develops Shape-Shifting Touchscreen
Microsoft has filed a patent application to add real texture to a tactile touchscreen. A layer of shape-memory plastic placed above a touchscreen would distort...
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IBM Claims Breakthrough in Laser-Based Chips
IBM recently announced a breakthrough in the development of silicon-based chips that send data using pulses of laser light. IBM says the research sets the stage...
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Ibm Chips: Let There Be Light Signals
IBM has achieved a major milestone in making the dream of silicon photonics, in which computer chips send signals of light rather than electricity, into reality...
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Silicon-Germanium Devices Developed For Use in Space
A five-year project led by the Georgia Institute of Technology is using silicon germanium technology to develop space electronics, which could change how space...
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Your Next Wallet Is Calling
"Contactless" hardware lets phones and gadgets pay with a tap, but the coming plethora of apps that use it may confuse users.
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c Breakthrough May Lead to Disposable E-Readers
University of Cincinnati researchers have developed a low-cost, paper-based, disposable e-reader. The researchers say the paper could be used as a flexible substrate...
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War Machines: Recruiting Robots For Combat
War would be a lot safer, the Army says, if only more of it were fought by robots.
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Joint Project to Create a Processor the Size of a Molecule
The European Union will launch a project to build a single molecule processor chip. The Atomic Scale and Single Molecule Logic Gate Technologies project will establish...
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Top Scientist rges 'ambitious' .s. Exascale Supercomputer Plan
Peter Beckman, director of the DOE's Exascale Technology and Computing Institute, says the United States needs to make a sizable push to open up funding resources...
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'nowhere to Hide': .s. Army Testing New 'smart' Weapons in Afghanistan
The XM-25 soon will see combat; precision rounds can be programmed to explode before impact.
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New Device Could Give Boost to Renewable Energy
University of Texas at Dallas professor Babak Fahimi has developed a prototype electronic interface for routing renewable energy sources to the power grid and electrical...
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Silicon's Long Good-Bye
Researchers make transistors out of a material that's better than silicon.
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Cell-Phone Chips to the Rescue
Data centers, under greater demand than ever, are looking to low-power chips as a way to save money, but switching won't be easy.
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Accelerator Supercomputers Dominate Newest Green500 List's Top 10
Accelerator-based supercomputers hold eight of the top 10 spots on the Green500 list. Green500 ranks the energy efficiency of the world's 500 fastest supercomputers...
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Graph500 Rating System Evaluates Nine Supercomputer Capabilities
Nine supercomputers have been tested, validated and ranked by the new "Graph500" challenge, introduced this week by an international team led by Sandia National...
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Chips in Football Helmets to Monitor For Concussions
Intel researchers are working with football helmet manufacturers and several universities to develop technology that can monitor brain damage in real time and build...
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