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Nsf Awards $20 Million to Sdsc to Develop Shared-Memory Supercomputer
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego has been awarded a five-year, $20 million grant from the U.S. National Science...
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World's First Arabic-Speaking Robot to Serve as Staff in Shopping Malls
A laboratory in the United Arab Emirate has built what it says is the world's first Arabic-speaking robot which could soon go into mass production to serve as staff...
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K-State Freshman Manages Largest Supercomputer in Kansas
Kansas State University's (KSU's) Beocat is a cluster of 122 servers that work together to form Kansas' largest academic research supercomputer. "It's easier to...
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Xerox Claims Breakthrough in Printable Circuitry
Xerox says it has developed a new form of silver ink that aligns its molecules to conduct electricity more efficiently. The breakthrough enables electronics to...
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The Past, Present and Future of AI
The idea that fully-fledged artificial intelligence (AI) — thinking machines that could mimic human intelligence precisely — would be realized by the year 2000...
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Intel Claims Memory Research Milestone
Intel and Numonyx recently announced a breakthrough in computer memory research that they say could eventually result in a less expensive and better-performing...
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MIT Researchers Developing Robotic Driving Companion
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are developing the Affective Intelligent Driving Agent (AIDA), a robot that would act as a helpful...
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Defense niversity Builds China's Fastest Supercomputer
China's National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) has unveiled the Tianhe supercomputer, the fastest supercomputer in China. Tianhe runs at 563.1 teraflops...
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c Researchers Create All-Electric Spintronics
University of Cincinnati (UC) researchers have developed a way to control an electron's spin orientation using only electrical means. Previous methods to develop...
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Science at the Petascale: Roadrunner Results nveiled
Roadrunner, housed at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), recently completed its initial shakedown phase while performing accelerated petascale computer modeling...
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DARPA Looks to Send the Internet Into Orbit
There’ve been satellites orbiting Earth for half a century. But getting information to and from them is still a pain. Which is why Pentagon research arm Darpa is...
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Silicon-Air Battery: Non-Stop Power For Thousands of Hours
Scientists at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have developed a new, environmentally friendly silicon-air battery capable of supplying non-stop power...
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Embedded Design
Embedded computer systems must be fast and efficient. A European consortium has created a new modelling framework that lets designers strike the best balance between...
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Robot Integrates Audio, Visual Data
European researchers developed technology that enables a robot to combine data from both sound and vision to create combined, purposeful perception. In the process...
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Faster Maintenance with Augmented Reality
In the not-too-distant future, it might be possible to slip on a pair of augmented-reality (AR) goggles instead of fumbling with a manual while trying to repair...
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Google Envisions 10 Million Servers
The computer industry had an opportunity to learn about the technical details of Google's infrastructure during LADIS 2009, ACM's recent SIGOPS International Workshop...
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Smartphone Security Threats Likely to Rise
Internet security experts say that worms, spam, viruses and hackers could be well on their way into your smartphone, whose rising popularity makes them sweeter...
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Parallel Course
In 1995, a good computer chip had a clock speed of about 100 megahertz. Seven years later, in 2002, a good computer chip had a clock speed of about three gigahertz...
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Vulnerability Seen in Amazon's Cloud-Computing
A new study by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) suggests that leading cloud-computing...
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